British Council LearnEnglish Giving and Receiving Positive Feedback (C1 Reading)
British Council LearnEnglish Giving and Receiving Positive Feedback (C1 Reading) is a C1 reading lesson on LearnEnglish, the British Council's free learning site. The magazine article at its centre questions the feedback sandwich and sets out what makes praise at work specific and believable, with tasks that check how closely the text was read.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The page follows the reading-skills pattern: a preparation task on the key words, then an article of about seven hundred words on the feedback sandwich and on better ways to give positive feedback, then two tasks and a discussion question. A worksheet can be downloaded, the level is given as C1 Advanced, and readers' comments sit at the foot.
You do the preparation task first, read the article once for the argument and again for the language of praise, then answer the two tasks to check what you understood. Use the discussion question to write or say what you yourself do when you give feedback. The worksheet gives you the same material to work on away from the screen.
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