Meat from a lab: a panel discussion on cultivated food
A radio panel on cultivated meat models nuanced disagreement and precise stance-taking; students prepare expert perspectives and hold a moderated panel with audience questions.
C2Adults60 minDiscussion
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (discussion). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Discussion
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Food & drink
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Gap-fill
- Key words
- cultivated meat, bioreactor, scale up, yuck factor, incumbent, I'm not entirely persuaded that ..., That rests on the assumption that ..., To put it bluntly, ..., Let me bring in ... here., Can I press you on that?, If I can pull those threads together, ..., I sense some agreement on ..., but a real divide on ...
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Express nuanced stances with precise hedging and emphasis
- Identify assumptions in others' arguments and challenge them tactfully
- Moderate or take part in a panel discussion and synthesize views