Side hustle or sanctuary: should hobbies earn money?
A chaired debate on turning hobbies into income models advanced rhetorical moves; students then hold a formal debate with points of information.
C2Adults60 minDebate
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (debate). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Debate
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Hobbies & free time
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Reading text, True / False, Gap-fill, Table to fill in
- Key words
- That's a straw man., to conflate X with Y, Let's call a spade a spade., Far be it from me to…, The burden of proof lies with…, the thin end of the wedge, Point of information?, to commodify
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Take part in a formal debate on the monetization of leisure, sustaining a complex argument
- Identify and use rhetorical moves such as exposing a straw man or a conflation