Practical Grammar and Vocabulary in the Workplace. Пособие по бизнес-английскому

• If you have the desire to succeed, I have the skills, experience, and time to mentor you.

HOW TOВ ENCOURAGE INNOVATION

• Sometimes innovation is just a matter of looking at the same thing through a different lens.

• I think we really need to embrace the motto «Think different.»

• I think we are ripe for one of those eureka moments. Are you game?

• There are no mistakes here – only creativity and innovation.

COMMON COMPLAINS

Now, we would like you toВ look at the most common complaints people make about their work and figure out what toВ do and what toВ say inВ each situation.

Show your best managerial skills. Let’s start!

1. IВ would like aВ job with more responsibility, but there are very few managerial posts available

2. IВ find the work rather boring and tedious

3.They don’t pay me enough. I deserve more

4. All IВ do is work, work,В work

5. There are always rumours that jobs are going toВ beВ cut

6. Nobody appreciates the work IВ do

7.

IВ always feel as if IВ am aВ weakВ link

8. We have aВ glass ceiling here, no matter what and how weВ do

Vocabulary exercises

1.Read the definition ofВ the new vocabulary and write an appropriate phrase orВ word

1.To get something good as aВ result ofВ your own actionsВ -?

2. Willing toВ do things that are new, difficult, or that involve risksВ -?

3. An extremely high standard ofВ skills and experienceВ -?

4. The task that should be completed successfullyВ -?

5.

AВ special advantage or benefit, inВ addition toВ the money you are paid, that you are given because ofВ your jobВ -?

6.Arranged and cannot be changed byВ discussion-?

7.To calculate an amount ofВ something (for example tax/ overhead costs)./ToВ solve, toВ find an answerВ -?

8.To go down inВ amount or value very quickly and suddenlyВ -?

9.To avoid typical mistakesВ -?

10.To formally praise someone or somethingВ -?

2. Choose the correct option

1.

AВ way ofВ referring toВ the situation inВ modern society inВ which people compete with each other for money and power

a) aВ rat race b) aВ rat cat c) racing d) inВ aВ rut

2.Willing toВ do things that are new, difficult, or that involve risks

a) toВ play the game b) toВ be game c) toВ gamble d) toВ have aВ game

3. ToВ formally praise someone or something

a) toВ commend b) toВ plummet c) toВ command d) toВ figureВ out

4.