LESSON SET OVERVIEW
With this lesson set, your students will:
- learn and practise idioms connected to motivation,
- explore types of leaders and share their experiences,
- read and analyse an article about the bossless workplace,
- work with business-related collocations,
- discuss using technology to help manage people.
In this lesson set, students organically move from discussing leadership and working without a boss to managing people with the help of technology. Along the way, they also have a chance to learn and practise useful phrases that can be used in all three lessons.
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Each lesson in the set is also a standalone lesson.
In British English you either have too much work or a too heavy workload. You do not have ‘too much workload’. This is poor English and not something I have ever heard said or seen written.
Hi Lesley! Thanks for the comment and bringing this to our attention. We looked into this and decided to update this worksheet as workload is a countable noun, and so ‘too much workload’ is not correct. Interestingly, the phrase “too much workload” is actually being used and we have seen it being used not only in online articles but also in research papers (1, 2) or even government documents (3). I guess this shows that the language is evolving and such a phrase is being used, however, technically it’s still incorrect.