Quiet Quitting or Healthy Boundaries?
ESL Lesson PlansQuiet Quitting or Healthy Boundaries?

Quiet Quitting or Healthy Boundaries?

Explore modern workplace culture with this engaging B1 ESL lesson on quiet quitting, burnout, and healthy work boundaries. Adult learners practise softening opinions and discussing sensitive topics politely through a realistic dialogue, useful functional language, and interactive pair-speaking tasks. Students build confidence expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing diplomatically, and talking about stress at work in a natural way. Ideal for group or pair classes focused on speaking fluency, workplace communication, and contemporary discussion topics.

Skills

  • Students will learn to discuss workplace stress and work-life balance using softening phrases to express opinions politely and naturally in conversation.
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1

In pairs, discuss these workplace habits.

Say which ones are:

👍 Normal

āš ļø Too much

🚩 Major red flag

  1. checking Slack at midnight
  2. skipping lunch to work
  3. answering emails on vacation
  4. taking mental health days
  5. refusing extra unpaid tasks
2

You will listen to a dialogue. Look at the words and discuss what the dialogue might be about.

3

Listen to the dialogue. Check your predictions.

4

Listen to the dialogue one more time and answer the questions.

5

Put the words in the correct order.