Working From Home: Benefits and Challenges – Teacher Answers

Teacher answer key

1. Warm-up: answers will vary.
2. Vocabulary: accept accurate contextual meanings.
3. Reading / grammar: Comprehension: 1) Save commuting time, reduce costs, flexibility, concentration. 2) Teams meet less often face to face. 3) They may miss informal learning. 4) A mix of home and workplace days. 5) Jobs, teams and individual circumstances differ. Grammar: 1 Although; 2 while / whereas; 3 while / whereas; 4 Although / While.
4. Listening script: “A small design company uses a hybrid system. Staff work from home on Mondays and Fridays, but meet in the office in the middle of the week. The manager says the arrangement reduces commuting while keeping regular face-to-face collaboration.”
5. Speaking, something fun and writing: answers will vary.

Puzzle/Game: answers will vary. Encourage students to use lesson vocabulary and explain their choices.

Success criteria: this is a student self-check. No single answer is required.

For open-ended tasks, accept different answers when students can explain or support them clearly.