HW check: rephrasing
Pls, submit your summaries of
The Peter Principle (p 9)
HW: REPHRASE THE PHRASES IN BOLD.
If necessary, rewrite the sentences:
1. Here are some tips for getting on in the
workplace.
2. Employees want to get credit for doing things.
3. Get as far away from the project before the work
kicks in.
4. Some people spend half their working lives
slaving away in their offices.
5. If you don't do anything, you can't make any
spectacular foul-ups.
6. Dress-down Fridays have impaired the smooth
running of capitalism.
→
7. I’m having an appraisal tomorrow.(totally submissive)
8. When you have had a bad year, the best
approach is a balance between cringing apology
and groveling sycophancy. (servile flattery, humble
amends, bootlicking)
9. Who is to blame for these cock-ups?
10.The author’s stance in this text is semi-ironic.
11.CEOs get jammy share options even though
they don’t do much.
12.People who sit all day like a lemon can’t make
any major cock-ups. well-run, well-organized
13.A tightly–run meeting is a frightening thing in the
office. Luckily, these meeting are rare as a sense
of gay abandon in the finance department.
(cheerful recklessness, uninhibited enthusiasm)
1.4 Management skills
BA, p 12
• Discussion Activities 1 & 2
• Vocabulary: False friends / easily confused
sensible ≠ sensitive
sensible = ?
sympathetic ≠ easy to get on with, nice
sympathetic = ?
self-conscious ≠ (self-)confident; self-assured
self-conscious = ?
1.4 Management skills
BA, p 12
• Discussion Activities 1 & 2
• Vocabulary: False friends / easily confused
sensible ≠ sensitive
sensible = reasonable
sympathetic ≠ easy to get on with, nice
sympathetic = compassionate
self-conscious ≠ (self-)confident; self-assured
self-conscious =
insecure with oneself
1.4 Management skills
BA, p 12
Discussion
Task 1
Task 2
Management skills: Johari Window
Task 2:
• 5 adjectives
which describe
you
• 5 adjectives which
describe your
partner
• draw a Johari
window
Task 3
• Complete the window
panes according
to instructions
Task 3
• Complete the window
panes according Adjectives you
to these
& your partner
chose to
instructions
describe you
Adjectives you
chose to
describe
yourself, but
partner didn’t
Adjectives your
partner chose to
describe you,
but you didn’t
Task 4: Listening
• Copy and complete the labels 1)-8)
Known to 1)____ Not known to 2) ___
Known to 3) _____
Not known to 4)
_____
5) ______
7) _______
6) _______ 8) _______
Listening: Johari window, cont.
Known to 1) you
Known to 3) others
Not known to 4)
others
5) Arena
6) Façade
Not known to 2) you
Task 5:
Discuss
your Johari
window
8) Unknown using
phrases in
grey box
(p. 12)
7) Blind
spot
Task 6: Which type of manager would you
prefer to work with?
BA, p 13
Listening for gist: The Truth game
Aim: to help enlarge the Arena & reduce other areas
Task 7: listen and recognize questions discussed
Task 8: put the words in the correct order
Task 9: find two expressions used for a-e
Task 10: Truth game
Repeat the process in 2 & 3 (p 18) and draw a
second Johari window. Comment on the result!