Business proposal: piloting a four-day week without cutting pay
A manager proposes a four-day-week trial backed by cost data; students analyze its logic and formal structures, then write a proposal.
C1Adults55 minProposalFree
About this lesson
A C1 writing lesson (proposal). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- C1
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Proposal
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Business & money
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Word order, Matching, Gap-fill
- Key words
- staff turnover, burnout, retention, exit interview, pilot, productivity, indicator, consecutive
- Access
- Free
By the end, students can
- Write a persuasive, evidence-based proposal that anticipates objections
- Use formal structures such as inverted conditionals and the subjunctive
- Present costs, risks and measures of success concisely