The annual review

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Useful phrases for a reviewVocabulary
7. 7Check your understandingReading comprehension
8. 8Check the reviewListening comprehension
9. 9Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
10. 10What did they say?Grammar exercise
11. 11Notice: Teresa's summaryGrammar exercise
12. 12Reporting verbs and their patternsGrammar rule
13. 13Choose the right patternGrammar exercise
14. 14Joanna's reviewGrammar exercise
15. 15Report itSpeaking practice
16. 16Say it naturallySpeaking practice
17. 17Role-play: the reviewSpeaking practice
18. 18Let's discussDiscussion
19. 19Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: Teresa's updateGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: after your reviewDiscussion

Words

• annual/ˈænjuəl/

  happening once a year, or every year

• self-assessment/ˌself əˈsesmənt/

  a judgment of your own work, often written on a form before a review

• rating/ˈreɪtɪŋ/

  a score that shows how good someone or something is, on a scale (rate: the verb)

• exceed expectations/ɪkˌsiːd ˌekspekˈteɪʃnz/

  to do better than what was expected (meet expectations: to do what was expected)

• area for development/ˌeriə fər dɪˈveləpmənt/

  a skill or part of your work that needs to improve (a polite way to say a weakness)

• competency/ˈkɑːmpɪtənsi/

  a skill or way of working that a job needs (core competencies: the most important ones)

• collaboration/kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃn/

  working together with other people to do something

• adaptability/əˌdæptəˈbɪləti/

  the ability to change your plans or the way you work when the situation changes

• check in/ˌtʃek ˈɪn/

  to talk to someone briefly to see how they or their work are doing (a check-in: a short meeting)

• follow through/ˌfɑːloʊ ˈθruː/

  to finish what you promised or started (follow through on something)

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about how your work is reviewed.

1. Does your company have yearly reviews? If not, how do you find out how you are doing?
2. What is the most useful thing a manager has ever told you about your work?
3. How do you feel before a meeting about your own work: calm, nervous or curious?

Grammar rule

Reporting verbs and their patterns

A reporting verb tells the listener what kind of thing someone said: a suggestion, an admission, a promise, an offer. Each verb has its own pattern.

Pattern	Verbs	Example
+ -ing	suggest, recommend, admit (also admit to + -ing)	The supplier admitted making a mistake on the invoice.
+ (that) + clause	suggest, recommend, admit, agree, promise	She recommended (that) we hire a temp for the summer.
+ someone + to + verb	encourage, advise	My mentor encouraged me to ask for a bigger budget.
+ to + verb	agree, promise, offer	They agreed to share the cost. He offered to drive the visitors to the airport.
+ a noun	suggest, recommend	Our trainer recommended a book on time management.

In unit 3, you made your own suggestions: I suggest asking IT. To report someone else's, use the past: She suggested asking IT, or She suggested (that) we ask IT.

• After suggest or recommend + that, American English uses the base form for every person: She suggested that he take a break (should take is also correct).

• Not She suggested me to… and not She suggested to…: suggest never takes to + verb. With recommend, Americans say recommend + -ing or recommend that… (recommend someone to + verb is formal British English).

• advise someone to + verb: The lawyer advised us to wait. advise against + -ing: She advised against signing.

• agree to + verb (do something) · agree on + noun (decide together: agree on a date) · agree with someone.

The tense rules from unit 7 still work after that: "I'll call the client." → He promised (that) he would call the client, or He promised to call the client.