- Communicative Objective: Learn to analyze practical problems with others, identify underlying issues, propose alternatives, evaluate solutions, and agree on appropriate action.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- Before deciding what to do, we should identify exactly what is causing the problem.
- One option would be to divide the work differently so that no single person becomes overloaded.
- We need to consider whether solving the immediate issue might create another problem later.
- Having reviewed the alternatives, I think the safest approach is to test the new system gradually.
- Once we have evaluated the results, we can decide whether the solution should be implemented permanently.
- Grammar Focus: Gerund clauses; perfect participle clauses; indirect questions; modal verbs for collaborative problem-solving; future time clauses.
- Vocabulary Focus: resolve, underlying, alternative, evaluate, implement
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Solving Problems Collaboratively
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