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9. Role-play a scenario where a manager effectively motivates an unmotivated employee.
10. Research and present a case study of a company that successfully motivates its employees and has achieved significant business success as a result.
UNREAL CONDITION OF PAST
You can use past hypothetical conditionals when you are thinking about a past situation and imagining a different result or outcome.
IF + PAST PERFECT., WOULD HAVE +V3
I would’ve got a bonus if I’d hit my performance targets for the year. (I didn’t hit my targets, so I didn’t get a bonus)
And again if you want to sound more formal u can use inversion omitting if
Had I hit my performance targets, I would have got a bonus
Grammar exercises
1.Choose the correct form
1. If you phoned / had phoned me yesterday, I had told / would have told you about the glitch in our project
2. If the new applicant would have listened/had listened more carefully when I was explaining, he wouldn’t have floundered/won’t have floundered
3.If we’d found / found suitable premises, we’d have moved / we had moved long ago.
4. If I’d known / would know about their financial problems, I wouldn’t do / wouldn’t have done business with them. I regret doing it.
5. If our side had been / was better prepared, we succeeded / could have succeeded in the negotiations.
6. if he wouldn’t hesitate/hadn’t hesitated to ask for help, the company would have weathered /would weather the storm.
7. He hadn’t been /wouldn’t have been fired if he would have done/had done everything by the book
8.You wouldn’t be/ wouldn’t have been reprimanded if you would prepare/had prepared the report in time
9.if you had sugarcoated / would sugarcoat your CV a little, you wouldn’t receive/ would have received that job
10. Nobody wouldn’t remember / would have remembered anything if he didn’t recap/ hadn’t recapped key points in a follow-up email
2. Rewrite the following sentences using “IF” to make “Third Conditionals”
1 You faced the music because you didn’t tell me the truth.
If…
2 He didn’t get promoted because he never toed the line
If…
3 The company was in a touch-and-go situation because they did business illegally.
If…
4 She picked her colleague’s brain because she couldn’t use that program.
If…
5 My coworker did it at his peril because none of us supported him.
If…
6 My friend didn’t do his job properly, so he was sacked.
If…
7 The idea was half-baked so we didn’t accept it
If…
8 They couldn’t meet the deadline so the boss increased workload
If…
9 I didn’t know that you flip-flopped again, so I wasn’t ready for the negotiations.
If…
10 I didn’t get the papers signed because of terrible red tape in the department
If…
11 I was not delighted because we didn’t take the kudos
If…
12 I didn’t have any time because I assumed more responsibility than I could bear
If…
3.Put the verb in brackets in the correct form
1. If I /work/ harder last month, I /get/ a bonus..
2. If I / have/ more time, I /do/ it up to scratch. But I didn’t have time.
3. If our manager /provide/ incentives, we / be/ better motivated.
4. If I / see/ him at the meeting, I /ask/ him to support us.
5. If I /know/ him better, I /delegate/ some of my responsibilities to him
6. If I /see/ him at the meeting, I /advise/ him to look at it from a new perspective
7. If I / have/ a better mentor, I / learn/ all the ropes in this business
8. I / do/ it if I / give/ a free hand
9. I / not say/ that he had pulled figures out of the air if he /not take/ all the kudos.
10. He / not let/ him show me the ropes if I / not ask/ about it mysel
4. Insert a missing word
1. I would ***** finished the report if none of you had bothered me with stupid memes
2.***** you come a bit earlier you would have met our seagull boss
3. if his wife hadn’t given him fake-aways, he ***** have spent a fortune in their office canteen
4. But ***** him, they would have lost that tender
5. If you ***** delegated a few responsibilities, you would have managed to finish the project in time
6. If you had thought twice before doing it, we ***** have had to face the music.
7. If we ***** seen the light at the end of the tunnel, we would have left the company long ago.
8.We would have been back on track ***** you had agreed to cut corners.
9.***** he not called it a day, we would have protested.
10. If he hadn’t mitigated the effects of our poor negotiations, we would have ***** fired immediately.
5. Translate the sentences using past hypothetical conditionals
1. Если бы не ты, меня бы вчера уволили. Мой босс устраивает скандал каждый раз, когда я опаздываю.
2. Если бы тогда вы приняли во внимание мои комментарии, наша работа не была бы уничтожена одним махом / In one fell swoop/.
3. Если бы мы тогда заморозили /put something on hold/ эту сделку, бы мы не понесли такие убытки.
4. Если бы нашу программу не заморозили /put smth on ice / в самом начале, мы бы смогли начать свой бизнес.
5. Если бы вы предупредили нас заранее, мы бы смогли исправить ситуацию.
6. Если бы ты действовал решительно /take the bull by the horns/, мы бы смогли договориться с ними.
7. Если бы ты создал условия / pave the way for/ для нашего развития с самого начала, нас бы пригласили для участия в этом тендере.
8. Если бы вы поторопились, то этот проект уже давно бы перешел из стадии разработки в стадию завершения.
9. Если бы он не вывел компанию из того критического положения, где она оказалась во время пандемии, его бы никогда не поставили во главу /at the helm. /
10. Если бы они поняли раньше в каком тупике /a blind alley / окажутся, они бы отказались от этого рискованного проекта, но тогда они были готовы на все.
Unit 4:
Workplace Difficulties
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan
Almost everybody must have already experienced at least one difficulty at their work-place. If not, it means you are at the very bottom of your career ladder and are likely to have at least one of the difficult issues in the near future. The most common problems involve bullying, lack of motivation, miserable salaries, work-related stress, redundancies, interpersonal conflicts, harassment and misunderstanding. We spend nearly half of our lives at work, and workplace issues are a common source of stress for many of us. It is impossible to imagine having any workplace without conflicts. Most issues may cause negative psychological consequences like decrease in performance and productivity, termination, loss of satisfaction, stress and a wide variety of mental health issues.
Vocabulary related to difficulties at workplace
1.To tackle- to attack or to deal with something
Решать
The company decided to tackle the issue of low employee morale by implementing a new team-building program.
2.Rota- a list which gives details of the order in which different people have to do a particular job
График
The manager created a rota to ensure that all employees had fair and equal shifts.
3.To give priority to – to give an advantage to
Уделять приоритетное внимание
The CEO gave priority to increasing diversity and inclusion within the company.
4.In the doghouse – in a state of disfavour because of something done wrong.
В немилости т к что-то сделал не так
After making a major mistake, the sales manager found himself in the doghousewith the company’s leadership.
5.Surveillance — monitoring, control of something
Наблюдение, надзор
The company installed surveillance cameras to monitor employee behavior in the workplace.
6.In the works – in the process
