Summary
Students will watch a video about the financial and personal benefits of working while traveling, exploring how remote work is changing our perception of time and productivity. The material covers essential vocabulary for modern work trends and focuses on using persuasive language, making it perfect for discussions about lifestyle, travel, and the future of employment.
Activities
Lead-in discussion questions to introduce the concept of a workcation and explore students' own ideas about remote work and travel.
Watch a short video about one person's experience with the workcation lifestyle and answer a series of comprehension questions to check understanding.
Practice new vocabulary through a gap-fill exercise and a matching task, focusing on terms like amortize, warp time, and trotting the globe.
Strengthen persuasive language skills by rewriting sentences using strong comparatives, such as much more affordable or far more relaxing.
Analyze and practice cause and effect language by matching clauses and connecting them with linking words like as a result and therefore.
Plan and present an ideal workcation in a pair-speaking activity, using the lesson's target language to make a persuasive case for their chosen destination.
Vocabulary focus
Students will learn and practice vocabulary related to travel, work, and finance. Key terms include idiomatic phrases like trotting the globe and fly by, as well as more formal words such as amortize (to pay off a cost over time), leverage (to use something to maximum advantage), and execute (to carry out a plan).
Grammar focus
The lesson has a dual grammar focus. First, students will practice using comparatives for persuasion, strengthening them with adverbs like much, far, and significantly. Second, they will work on expressing cause and effect using a variety of linking words and conjunctions, including because, as a result, and which means.
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