Reading: Robots in the Workplace
Robots in the workplace is a B2 reading text on automation’s impact on jobs. The text covers which jobs are being automated (manufacturing, logistics, customer service, increasingly knowledge work), which seem more robot-resistant (caring professions, creative work, skilled trades), the economic effects (productivity gains, wage pressure, job displacement), and policy responses (re-skilling, universal basic income, robot taxes). Learners read for automation-impact analysis, sector-comparison, and policy-debate engagement.
This worksheet builds B2 reading comprehension through an automation-impact text.
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What’s inside:
- A B2 reading text (~550 words) on workplace automation
- Pre-reading vocabulary box with automation and workforce terms
- Comprehension items: automation-pattern identification, sector-comparison, policy-evaluation
- Vocabulary-in-context: technology-and-labour vocabulary
- Writing follow-up: predict how automation will affect your country in the next decade
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Automation vocabulary at B2: automate, augment, displace, substitute, complement, redundant, obsolete. Re-skilling and policy language: reskilling, upskilling, lifelong learning, just transition, universal basic income. Distinguishing destruction of jobs from creation of new ones requires careful reading.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) and C1 Advanced (CAE) Reading. Part of the Work & Career Readings collection — the natural next step is Cultural Differences in Business, which extends workplace reading into the cross-cultural dimension.
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