B2 · 5 minutes · Work

A four-day working week

A tutor and a student discuss an idea for changing working hours.

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What you’ll practise

Understand evidence and disadvantages in a seminar discussion.

Words to know

productivity: How much work someone does in a period of time.
trial: A test of something for a period of time.
burnout: Extreme tiredness caused by too much work.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 90% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

four-day above B2Look up
healthcare above B2Look up

These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration with two voices.

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