WHAT'S INSIDE
- Real-World Context: Explore how different generations perceive work, effort, loyalty, and career expectations in today’s workplace, and why these perceptions often clash.
- Vocabulary in Context: Practise vocabulary for describing work attitudes and behaviours (e.g. go the extra mile, do the bare minimum, take initiative, pull your weight, feel undervalued, be entitled to).
- Guided Practice: Complete generation profiles using target vocabulary and categorise workplace attitudes across different age groups.
- Video Comprehension: Watch a short video on Gen Z workplace characteristics and a Simon Sinek talk on changing work culture.
- Critical Reading: Analyse real people's comments to identify opinions, stereotypes, and valid concerns, and learn how to express agreement and disagreement in a nuanced way.
- Fluency Building: Take part in structured discussions, opinion statements, and a roleplay (raise negotiation / burnout conversation) to practise real workplace communication.
- Critical Thinking & Debate: Engage in a structured debate on whether Gen Z behaviour reflects entitlement or rational adaptation to modern work culture.
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