Work-Life Balance

In this lesson, your students will:

• Discuss strategies for work-life balance and give peer advice before listening.
• Listen to a psychologist and take notes on practical advice about balancing work and rest.
• Complete a gap-fill with accurate make/do phrases from the audio.
• Explore and sort verbs into appropriate categories.
• Practice identifying the correct usage of collocations.
• Give advice in pairs using “Make sure…” to respond to real-life problems.
• Correct common grammar mistakes related to the make/do usage.
• Reflect on useful expressions, express agreement or disagreement with key statements, and explain their reasoning.

This lesson contains 15+ exercises that develop students’ ability to understand and use common make/do collocations in the context of everyday tasks and work-life balance, with a focus on listening, speaking, and accuracy.

Vocabulary: do your best, make changes, etc
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