Lessonpills Managing Up: Using Diplomatic Language with Seniors
Lessonpills Managing Up: Using Diplomatic Language with Seniors introduces a B2 lesson from Lessonpills, a site of interactive English lessons built on real articles. The lesson teaches diplomatic language for raising a problem with a manager or a senior colleague, with workplace phrases, the passive voice for objective and formal communication, practice exercises and a closing discussion.
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The page sets out the lesson section by section: a summary, the key vocabulary with phrases such as giving someone a heads-up, running something by someone and flagging an issue, the grammar focus on the passive voice, a practical English part on discussing a project problem with a manager, a speaking discussion, and the article the lesson is built on.
You read the summary to see what the lesson covers, then open the lesson itself from the page and work through it in order. Take the vocabulary notes phrase by phrase and write your own sentence for each, use the passive-voice examples to soften news you have to deliver, and finish with the discussion questions, spoken aloud or written, to put the language into your own words.
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