By the end of the lesson you will have:

● Learned collocations with “set”, “make”, “take”, and “meet”

● Revised the vocabulary of the lesson
● Further developed your listening skills (listening for detail)
● Practiced using articles when talking about management styles
Agenda:

1. HW check
2. Vocabulary revision
3. Collocations with “set”, “make”, “take”, and “meet”
4. Listening (gist and detail)
5. Articles - presentation
6. Articles - controlled practice
7. Articles - freer practice
Vocabulary bank

To emerge
A wound, injury
To lose smb’s temper =
become angry
To be out in the open =
Former (USSR republics)
Essential = very important
Fear
To fire = to hire
Indispensable
Tough = difficult
Redundant - unnecessary
Shape up - become better
Disastrous (adj)
To question
Approach
To argue
Annual = yearly
Failure (n) - to fail
Success (n) - to succeed (v
Fragile - easy to break
Read the text again. Are these statements true or false?

1. A photographer witnessed the manager kicking David Beckham - F

2. The manager lost his temper because the team lost the match - T
3. Management tactics are easier to identify in business than in sport - F
4. Patterson encouraged his employees to make themselves indispensable - F
5. When business is good, fear is used less as a management tactic - T
6. Fear may help some people to reach their targets - T
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Discuss the questions with your partner

How many subordinates do you have?

Have you ever had to make a tough decision? Was it the right decision?
Which part of your job is the most essential?
Which part of your job do you consider to be redundant? - I got redundant
What do you do if anyone questions your decisions?
Have you ever had a situation when your failure turned into your success?
Are you easy to persuade? (=convince)
Which approaches from those mentioned in the previous lesson do you use in your work?
Do you lose your temper easily?
Make collocations using set, meet, make, and take

Set A precedent
Make A call
Set A limit
Meet The cost
Take A chance
Make A point
Meet Expectations
Meet A need
Make A mistake
Set An example
Set An objective
Take An opportunity
Meet A deadline
Take A position
Make A profit/ loss
Don’t judge the book by its cover
Make A judgement
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1. a. Are you sure these figures are correct? They look a little high to me.
b. You are right. I think I made________ a _mistake______ in the calculations.

2. a. What do you think of their proposal?

b. Too risky. We can't _take______ a __chance______ on an unknown supplier.

3. a. They say they absolutely must have the final version by Friday.
b. We'll never be able to _meet______ a _deadline_____ like that!

4. a. It's the first time we've agreed to pay expenses on a project like this.
b. Yes, I know. I hope this won't _set_______ a _precedent_____ that we'll regret later

5. a. I'm not sure if we should sell now or wait until the market improves.
b. Yeah. It's difficult to know which would be the best _opportunity______ to _take______.

6. a. It looks like we've used almost all the budget.

b. Right. We're going to have to _set_____ a tight _limit_____ on spending from now on.
Tell your partner about a very good manager or teacher you have known. What made him/ her special?
 Can you figure out what the rules for using the articles are?
a/an the no article
Match the examples to the rules

a/an
- Non-specific singular countable nouns May I have a word with you?
- Jobs I’m a sales executive
We faced a problem yesterday. The problem was
- Things mentioned for the first time caused by the delay in delivery
- Descriptions It’s a great idea!

the
We faced a problem yesterday. The problem was
- Nouns already mentioned or specified caused by the delay in delivery
- Unique nouns You can read about it on the internet
- The superlative form of adjectives It’s the best job I’ve had!
- Groups of people/ nationalities The Ukrainians are the toughest people in the world

no article
- Plural nouns when we mean things in general Managers tend to overreact
- Abstract and uncountable nouns Criticism doesn’t help
- Proper names We’re meeting our partners from Brazil tomorrow
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Look at the use of articles (a, the or no article) in the sentences. Only 3 sentences are correct/
Identify the correct sentences and find and correct the mistakes

1. I have job in a leading design company

2. Gaby Hart is director
3. A manager is not the same as leader
4. Employees don’t want to be lead, they want to be managed
5. Does the fear really motivate people to do better in their work?
6. Most managers learn from the experience
7. Bob is one of youngest managers here but he’s also one of the best
8. Culture can affect attitudes to management
9. Newspaper article I read on the train this morning was very positive about management
today
10. I don’t know of many really strong leaders in the world at the moment