Fast fashion: should we stop buying cheap clothes?
Emma and Ryan debate the costs of fast fashion; students learn formal debate language and run a team debate with opening, rebuttal and closing.
B2Teens50 minDebate
About this lesson
A B2 speaking lesson (debate). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- B2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Debate
- Students
- Teens
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Shopping & money
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Gap-fill
- Key words
- fast fashion, landfill, second-hand, working conditions, a bargain, an impulse buy, afford
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Argue for or against a position on fast fashion with reasons and evidence
- Challenge others' arguments politely and respond to counter-arguments