Master the vocabulary of protests, civil disorder and the cost of living with this B2-C1 English lesson plan on protests and the cost of living in Europe, built around a BBC News video report on the violent protests across France and a homework reading from The Independent on the European cities facing cost-of-living protests from Paris to Milan.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop practical vocabulary for giving and evaluating instructions at work, including phrases such as I need you to..., Here's the context, Keep it under 100 words, Don't include..., a draft and a call to action.
- Improve reading and speaking skills by analysing a short story about two colleagues who give an AI assistant the same task, evaluating a flawed AI-written client email and role-playing a literal "AI agent" with a partner.
- Learn and practise the four-part instruction structure (task, context, format, constraints) and feedback language such as This is almost there, but..., That's not quite what I meant and Leave the first part as it is and change... to get useful results from AI tools, assistants and freelancers.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will explore why a vague instruction leads to a weak result at work. They will read a short story about two employees who give an AI assistant the same task and discover the four-part instruction: task, context, format and constraints. Students will rewrite bad instructions, find four problems in an AI-written client email and correct it with precise feedback language such as Can you make it less formal? instead of "make it better". A manager-employee dialogue introduces the language of responsibility, including I drafted it with AI and then checked.... By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to delegate a task clearly in English, ask for specific changes to a result, and explain what they did with AI and what they checked themselves.
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