🗞️ The Fleydo Tribune: Society & Ideas (C1 Edition)

C1 Adults 'Society & Ideas' edition (reading-first design): advanced learners open a serious, opinion-led edition of The Fleydo Tribune and begin immediately with the reading — a quality-newspaper page with masthead, datelines, bylines, columns, drop caps and pull quotes — before any other activity. The four articles examine why the four-day week refuses to disappear, the costly consequences of half-empty city centres, the unexpected revival of public libraries, and why 'sustainable' has become the most contested word in business. The prose is dense and balanced, presenting competing viewpoints without resolving them, with target vocabulary highlighted on hover and a C1 reading-strategy box on detecting stance, concession, hedging, irony and understatement. After reading, learners tackle four interpretation questions that demand inference and evaluation rather than recall, study a 12-item vocabulary table of analytical language grouped by function (scale & significance, conflict & disagreement, endurance & outcome), and explore a six-card discourse toolkit (While such objections are reasonable…, Sceptics, however, remain unconvinced…, The deeper question is whether…, This carries a wider implication…). Six flashcards consolidate the core words, an eight-question gap-fill in an analytical register gives instant feedback with a live score, a five-prompt debate task pushes learners towards layered argument, an opinion-column task (220–280 words) requires taking a position while conceding the strongest counter-argument, and an eight-question quiz focuses on inference, tone, viewpoint and word meaning in context, with a scored results circle and feedback.