Progress test 5 (part 1)

Review Gossiping strategy

- practice Gossiping abouta new American employee in a multinational company, who is regularly taking out a single female colleague, with seemingly serious intentions

- exchange news with a friend of yours about your mutual friend, who two years ago married an American and left Russia for the USA with her four-year-old son

- practice Gossiping abouta B-actress, who is rumored to have come back from America after failing in a six-year pursuit of happiness and attempts to join the Hollywood crowd

PROGRESS TEST 5 (part 2)

Topic 6. Expressing Likes / Dislikes

General

Practicum 6.1

a) Study the communication strategy of Expressing Likes

Step 1	State what you like
Step 2	Say why, highlight the positives

b) Study the communication strategy of Expressing Dislikes

Step 1	Look for something worth complimenting about the other party
Step 2	Only then expose the negatives. Express dislike
Step 3	Say why

Practicum 6.2

Arrange Expressing Likes & Dislikes vocabulary in groups relating to the steps of the communication strategy, e.g:

a) Likes
Step 1		Step 2
I find it a good idea		We might benefit from it
b) Dislikes
Step 1	Step 2		Step 3
I appreciate how you feel about it	Still I am afraid I can’t accept it		There are downsides I’d like to specify

It’s very appealing / it’s appeals to me / it has lost its appeal

I appreciate what the other party suggested

I am sorry, it’s not quite what I meant / had on my mind

The point which I feel uncomfortable about is / it strikes me as smth

I do like it, you’ve done your best

I can’t say I like it

Actually, I find it misleading      

It sounds promising

What I actually like is

Practicum 6.3

Practice Expressing Likes & Dislikes strategy. Define the setting, assume the roles of

- two colleagues in a private conversation discuss the way their boss criticized their contribution to the project. Say what you liked and didn’t like

- you don’t like the work your subordinate has done. He didn’t meet the timeline, and made a few calculating mistakes. Be polite, but firm and precise

- colleagues swap opinions on yesterday’s TV show on America’s cultural patterns. The older staff view new trends in American society as signs of moral decline, the younger ones highlight things which appeal to them

- an American, who has spent in Russia a year, in a conversation with a TV presenter shares his impressions on what strikes him most in Russians, what he likes and what he doesn’t

Text 6a

The text to follow deals in talking mentality. Study the text and use it as a starting point for communication