British Council LearnEnglish Managing Up (Business Magazine)
British Council LearnEnglish Managing Up (Business Magazine) is a B1 to B2 reading lesson from the Business Magazine series on LearnEnglish, the British Council's free learning site. Through the story of an employee and her new manager it explains what managing up means, what it is not, and how empathy, clear priorities and small changes in working style can improve a difficult relationship at work.
100% Free (unlimited): The preparation task, the article, both comprehension tasks, the discussion and the printable worksheet are free, with no account needed at any point. An account is asked for only to post a comment under the lesson or to add it to your favourites, and no part of the lesson is reserved for registered users.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page follows the Business Magazine pattern: a preparation task on the key vocabulary, an article of about seven hundred words built around one employee's situation, then two comprehension tasks and a discussion question. A printable worksheet can be downloaded, the level is given as B1 and B2, and readers' comments with replies from the LearnEnglish team sit below.
You do the preparation task first to meet the vocabulary, read the article once for the story and a second time for the language, and then answer the two tasks to check your understanding. The downloadable worksheet gives you the same material to work on away from the screen, and the discussion question is a short writing or speaking exercise on your own experience.
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