Recall at dawn: a crisis meeting after a product safety scare
A food company's leadership team argues over how to respond to a possible contamination; students analyze how senior speakers challenge, reframe and decide under pressure, then run their own crisis meeting with shifting information.
C2Adults60 minRole play
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (role play). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Role play
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Business & money
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Matching
- Key words
- precautionary recall, batch, reputational damage, holding statement, to err on the side of caution, Let's not conflate ... with ..., I'd push back on that., The optics of this are ...
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Argue, challenge and reframe positions precisely in a high-stakes meeting
- Manage uncertainty with nuanced hedging and conditional reasoning
- Reach and communicate a decision under time pressure