Micro-Retirement
ESL Lesson PlansMicro-Retirement

Micro-Retirement

This B2-level lesson for adults explores the modern trend of taking short, intentional breaks from work to recharge, learn new skills, and improve well-being. Learners will read about how Gen-Z is redefining career paths by prioritizing flexibility, balance, and mental health over traditional long-term employment. Through reading comprehension, vocabulary practice, and discussion, students will examine the benefits and challenges of micro-retirement for both employees and organizations. The lesson encourages learners to reflect on their own work-life balance, ways to prevent burnout, and how to feel rejuvenated in their professional lives.

Skills

  • Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which particular stances or viewpoints are adopted.
  • Can take an active part in informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting a point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses.
Online Interactive
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1

Warm-up: Discuss these questions with your group.

1. What would your ideal work-life balance look like? What could you possibly do to achieve it? 2. Have you ever heard of 'micro-retirement'? What do you think it means?
2

Read the article and mark the statements as True or False.

3

Match the words to the definitions.

4

Fill in the missing words.

5

Look at the pros and cons of micro-retirement. Add 3-4 ideas to each list, then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of micro-retirement with your group. Is it something you would be willing to try?

6

Answer the questions below. Compare your ideas with the group.