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Chapter 7 Business Contacts

Lesson 31 Workplace Relationships

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OUTLINE

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Expressions Discussion Further Reading
Useful expressions under Questions for you to discuss An article for you to read
this topic for your reference. freely with your teacher. after class.

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8mins

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Expressions
Useful expressions about workplace
relationships. You can refer to them to
provoke your thoughts in the Discussion part.

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 1 Expressions Glossary
(suggested time: 8mins)
team 团队 difficult (人)难相处的
Positive relationships help us at work. In this part, extroverted 外向的 introverted 内向的
you are going to study and practice some expressions interpersonal relationship 人际关系
and sentences about workplace relationships. people person 善于处理人际关系的人
engage with sb. 与某人接洽

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In Sentences
• Most of the time I work in team with my co-workers.
• I'm not a people person, so sometimes I find it difficult
to deal with interpersonal relationships.
• There are several difficult co-workers, but we don't have
to constantly engage with them and get stressed out.
• Romantic workplace relationships can make other
employees feel awkward*.
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awkward: 尴尬的
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15mins

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Discussion
Discuss questions about workplace relationships.
Use your experience and imagination to talk
about them with your teacher.

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 2 Discussion Discuss these questions in detail with your
teacher. Give reasons and explanations for your
(suggested time: 15mins)
opinion and speak as much as possible. You can
use words you learnt in Expressions to help you.
Q1. Do you need to communicate and cooperate with
others often at work? Who do you communicate with every day?

Q2. Have you run into any conflict with your co-workers? If yes,
what was the conflict and how did you deal with it? If no, how
do you manage to* keep such good workplace relationships?

Q3. Do you think workplace relationships are important for us

to achieve success at work? Why? List some influences that
positive/negative workplace relationships may have on us.

Q4. What's your attitude towards romantic workplace relationships?

Do you think office romance should be banned? Will it have
more positive influences or negative ones on the whole office?

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After
class

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Further Reading
An article about how to build positive
workplace relationships. You can read it
after class if you are interested.

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 3 Further Reading
How To Build • Be friendly and encouraging to co-workers.
Positive
Workplace • Be responsible – if you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you’re unable to
Relationships complete a task for some reason, make sure information is communicated to all team
members who would be impacted.
• impact /ˈɪmpækt/
• If you share an office, be considerate. Find out how your office mate works and be
v. 产生影响
respectful. Make sure you’re not making your office mate crazy with your personal
• considerate /kənˈsɪdərət/
habits.
adj. 体贴的，周到的
• rise above /raɪz, əˈbʌv/
• Rise above office gossip. No one wants to earn the reputation of being the office
v. 摆脱
busybody.
• gossip /ˈɡɑːsəp/
n. 流言蜚语
• Communicate! Your co-workers are not mind readers, so make sure you’re
• reputation /ˌrepjəˈteɪʃən/
communicating with them and your manager on a regular basis.
n. 名声
• busybody /ˈbɪziˌbɑːdi/
n.多事者
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