Work & Society • C1 Advanced

Back to the office?

A C1 lesson on hybrid work, evidence, fairness and workplace negotiation.

ReadingC1 vocabularySpeaking & negotiationProposal writing

Lesson question

How should business needs be balanced against employee flexibility and cost?

Explore a workplace dispute about tighter office-attendance rules. Analyse management and employee arguments, practise precise C1 workplace vocabulary, and use hedging and concession to make claims that the evidence can support.

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ELS C1 Back to the office hybrid working lesson

What you'll practise

Understand it. Challenge it. Use it.

Reading & evidenceSummarise a workplace dispute, identify arguments and distinguish claims from evidence.

Precision vocabularyUse concessions, offset costs, backlash, exemption, autonomy, compulsory, foster collaboration and bear the cost.

Hedging & concessionMake nuanced C1 claims with may, tends to, appears to, although, while and provided that.

Speaking & writingNegotiate a workable hybrid policy and write a 220–260 word proposal to senior management.

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The four-page ELS lesson includes pre-reading discussion, the full reading, comprehension, vocabulary, language focus, negotiation and C1 proposal writing. Enter your email to unlock the free student PDF.

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