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Crossed Perspectives

On the same topic, generates short texts written by different personas, with key vocabulary and ready discussion questions.

Crossed Perspectives Reading Vocabulary 10 credits Uses AI Use it in my exercise ↗

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What is it for

Debate material. Instead of a neutral text on a topic, you get three voices disagreeing about it — in favour, against, undecided — or three generations, three professions, three archetypes.

Each student reads one perspective and defends that point of view; or the whole class reads all of them and compares. It comes with key vocabulary and discussion questions, so your conversation lesson is ready.

How to use

  1. Add the tool to your exercise.
  2. Topic — up to 120 characters. Topics with real tension work better: "four-day work week", "cell phones in the classroom".
  3. Level — from A1 to C2.
  4. Persona Filter — choose the axis of contrast:
    • Opinions (in favour, undecided, against)
    • Generations (teenager, adult, elder)
    • Professions (doctor, entrepreneur, artist)
    • Archetypes (optimist, pessimist, pragmatist)
    • Social Roles (student, teacher, parent)
    • Media Voices (journalist, activist, politician)
    • Economic Views (worker, employer, consumer)
    • Global Voices (local resident, immigrant, tourist)
    • Cultures (traditionalist, innovator, moderate)
    • Environment (environmentalist, entrepreneur, scientist)
  5. Click Abracadabra ✨.

The result brings one card per persona, the Key Vocabulary section, and Discussion Questions.

Try it

Topic "the four-day work week", level B1, filter Opinions.

The four-day week Sample
In favour

I work better in four days. When my school tried it, my lessons were better prepared, because I had a whole morning just for planning. It is not magic: I had to cut meetings that led nowhere. But I admit that in exam weeks the fifth day is missed.

Undecided

It depends on the job. A translator can compress the week; a nurse cannot. I like the idea, and I also see colleagues doing the same amount of work in less time and going home tired in a different way. I would like to see two years of data before I decide.

Against

My worry is simple: the work does not disappear, it moves. In my team the four-day week meant longer days and answering messages on Friday anyway. If nobody reduces what we are asked to deliver, a shorter week is only a shorter week on paper.

Key Vocabulary

workload to compress trade-off on paper burnout

Discussion Questions

  1. 1 Which of the three perspectives is closest to your own situation? Why?
  2. 2 Which jobs in your city could not work in four days, and what would have to change?
  3. 3 Would you accept longer days in exchange for a free Friday?

Tips

Tip: distribute one persona per group and ask them to defend that position — even if they disagree with it. It's the most productive argumentation exercise this tool allows.

Tip: the Global Voices filter is excellent for multicultural classes: each student recognizes one of the voices and the conversation stops being hypothetical.

Tip: the discussion questions already come ready, but it's worth rewriting the first one to mention your class's reality. The engagement changes.

Note: the tool doesn't correct anything — it's reading and speaking material. If you want a grade, use the discussion questions as the basis for a block of Create Discursive Questions from Text.

Cost in credits

10 credits per generation, with all perspectives, vocabulary, and questions included.

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