How to feed back on a project
Hint think something through = think of all possibilities We need to think our strategy through carefully. give thought to something = consider We must give more thought to pricing. rethink something = think again We’d better rethink our whole strategy.
In this lesson you will learn useful phrases for giving and getting feedback on projects.
16 .1
Expressions 1 World Eye Records sells world music CDs and DVDs. They have just had a stand and tent to sell CDs at an open-air world music festival in Krakow, Poland. Listen to World Eye Records staff discussing how successful the festival was, and complete the table below.
Starter 1 Imagine you run the CD stall at the festival in the photograph. What things would you do to get as many people as possible to visit your stall and buy CDs?
Writing
discussion point
how successful?
3 Listen to recording 16.1 again and 1
Jake,
represented your company at a conference. Write an email to your boss at head office, explaining which aspects of your participation were successful in promoting your company. Include suggestions for future conference participation. Write your answer in the email below.
specific
numbers before next week?
2
suggestions for next time
One
is the
papering.
3 1 NUMBER OF VISITORS
Yes, we should better in terms of quantity and distribution.
2 Have you ever run a stall or stand to promote or sell something? How did it go?
1 You’ve just returned from a trip abroad, where you
complete the spaces below.
4 Now listen to recording 16.2 again and
2 SIGNING SESSIONS
complete the sentences below. 3 LEAFLET DISTRIBUTION
16 .2
1
First, perhaps we sales data.
2 Now listen to the same people having a meeting a week later to evaluate their participation and complete the table below.
discussion point
how successful?
2
the website hits.
3
But I think that our stock on the stand matches the
suggestions for next time
1 ASIAN / MIDDLE EASTERN CDs
And then
festival’s line up of artists much better.
4
OK. I’ll make for next time.
2 CD SALES (LESS FAMILIAR MUSIC)
5
Well, I’ve got by age, as well as by nationality, of all
3 LOOP VIDEO CLIPS
2 Think of an event that you attended, for example, a training course, a conference, a festival, etc. Write feedback on the event and suggestions for improving it for the message board on the organizer’s website.
projects
those who visited the stand.
Speaking
Language box
1 You work for a sports equipment company.
To describe past actions, and express regret for not doing something in the past, we can use the third conditional.
You have come back from a conference, where you were in charge of the company stand. Give your evaluation to your boss (your teacher), based on these notes, and make your own suggestions.
notes
suggestions for next year
LOCATION OF STAND
POOR – OUT OF VIEW, NOT NEAR ENTRANCE DISPLAY
DIDN’T LOOK VERY PROFESSIONAL PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
DIDN’T ARRIVE IN TIME PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES
PRODUCT COMPETITION VERY SUCCESSFUL STAFFING OF STAND
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business one : one
The first part of the third conditional uses if. This explains a past possibility. If I’d known how many people were coming, … ( but I didn’t) If we had invited some of our key clients, … ( but we didn’t)
The second part of the third conditional uses a modal verb + have + past participle to explain what did not happen in the past. … , I would have bought more food. (= I didn’t buy more food) … , the party would have been great for business. (= the party wasn’t great for business)
Lesson record The third conditional is a very difficult grammar structure to get right. When the two halves of the structure come together, the structure is very long: If I’d known how many people were coming, I would have bought more food. If we had invited some of our key clients, the party would have been great for business.
3 new words from this lesson
3 useful phrases from this lesson
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Things to remember
It might not have happened if you’d told me yesterday. Attendance could have been better if we’d contacted our mailing list.
Look Look again at listening scripts 16.1 and 16.2 on page 117, and find other examples of the third conditional.
business one : one
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