An appraisal meeting

Theme:
Workplace skills
Before we start, please make sure…

ü your name on Zoom is clear (use Latin letters)

ü your camera is on and mic is off (unmute when
needed)
ü you are in a quiet area that helps you focus
ü you have a notebook or a note app ready to
take notes

Ilka X@!

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Pre-lesson activities

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Lesson objective

What do you expect to learn by the end of this class?

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Lesson objectives
prepare
In this live part of the lesson, you will _____________for and take part in an
discuss
appraisal meeting. You will______________ways of evaluating and
look
rewarding people’s performance at work. You will ____________ at
language used to give examples in support of opinions and language used to
talk about personal strengths and weaknesses.

Highlighted skills:
Preparing for and participating in a meeting.
Language focus:
Grammar: verbs and prepositions (Prepare and Practise)
Language: language of supporting opinions
talking about strengths and weaknesses
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 Lead-in
Work in small groups and discuss the questions. Be ready to tell the rest of
the class some of the ideas and opinions you came up with.

1. What makes a good employee?

2. How should staff’s performance be evaluated? Does this depend on the
nature of the job? Think about the following professions, sales person, teacher,
police officer, and human resources officer.
3. How is your performance evaluated where you work/study? Do you think this
is a fair system? What would you change?
4. What different ways are there of rewarding good performance?
5. How should poor performance be dealt with?

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Language focus 1
Work in pairs. Look at the sentences from the appraisal meeting you listened
to before the lesson. What words could you put in the gaps?
1 I’d__say____ I’ve had a pretty strong year.
2 As you’re __aware____ , we’ve sold almost 15% more books than we did last year.
3 Could you give me a __specific___ example of when you’ve exceeded expectations?
4 So I took the ___initiative__and contacted his manager and succeeded __in__getting
Jeff to come to the shop to launch the book.
5 ... in what _ways_ do you think you’ve developed professionally since our last meeting?
6 Well, in __terms__of my day-to-day job, I think I’ve __improved__ in the way I
communicate with staff; I’m better at getting my point across clearly …
7 I feel I’ve really __developed__ in that area. In fact, I __received__very positive
feedback from delegates at a recent conference I spoke at.
8 I still ___find___it difficult to give negative feedback to staff, even if it’s constructive
criticism.
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TAKE A PHOTO
Language focus 1
Work in pairs. Look at the sentences from the appraisal meeting you listened
to before the lesson. What words could you put in the gaps?
1 I’d__say____ I’ve had a pretty strong year.
2 As you’re __aware____ , we’ve sold almost 15% more books than we did last year.
3 Could you give me a __specific___ example of when you’ve exceeded expectations?
4 So I took the ___initiative__and contacted his manager and succeeded __in__getting
Jeff to come to the shop to launch the book.
5 ... in what _ways_ do you think you’ve developed professionally since our last meeting?
6 Well, in __terms__of my day-to-day job, I think I’ve __improved__ in the way I
communicate with staff; I’m better at getting my point across clearly …
7 I feel I’ve really __developed__ in that area. In fact, I __received__very positive
feedback from delegates at a recent conference I spoke at.
8 I still ___find___it difficult to give negative feedback to staff, even if it’s constructive
criticism.
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TAKE A PHOTO
Language focus 2
Match the verbs talking about strengths and weaknesses with the correct
preposition:
on
1 An area I’d really like to focus ___________is
to in
2 I think I’m good ______________________
3 I succeeded ________________________ at at
4 I’m getting better ____________________ on in
5 I still find it difficult ___________________
6 I’ve improved __________but I can still improve ____________my……

Please take a screenshot.

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Language focus 2
Now personalise the sentences, highlighting your strengths and weaknesses
using the correct preposition:

on
1 An area I’d really like to focus ______is my confidence in presentations.
2 I think I’m good ___ at listening to others and supporting my team.
3 Last year, I succeeded ___ in starting a new hobby, I learnt to cook!
4 I’m getting better ___ at following my bliss and learning what makes me
happy.
to take constructive criticism from others.
5 I still find it difficult ___
6 I’ve improved ___my in on prioritising
timekeeping but I can still improve ___
my workload every day.
Please take a screenshot.
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 Task
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Task Preparation

You will take part in two appraisal meeting role-plays in pairs (one as manager,
the other person being managed). You will receive role-cards, please read
through the information.

The meeting will be based on this information, but try to add some of your own
ideas as much as you can.

Try to also recycle some of the expressions looked at in the lesson.

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Task

You are going to role play an appraisal meeting. Take turns playing both
roles.

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Feedback

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Review

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How can you make more progress?
Complete the Progress activities online.

Review the language rule we have practised today.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/verbs-
and-prepositions

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Lesson materials

Make sure you have

• downloaded the *.pdf with this
presentation
• saved the Zoom Chat

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