Unit 6 Criticism and Praise

Goal 目标

• Learn how an employer or employee deals with giving and receiving criticism and praise in a professional English manner.

• 学习雇员和雇主如何用专业性的现代英语应对赞扬和批评。

Concepts 概念• Effective way for any employee to know

how the quality of their work is being perceived.

• Praise is one way of helping to maintain work quality, and can be an incentive to raising the standard.

• Constructive criticism is necessary if something needs to be improved.

Vocabulary

词 汇

1.Expressions that can be used to praise someone’s work

赞扬别人工作的表达

1). Excellent/ good/ nice work.

做得很出色 / 好 / 漂亮。

2 ） Great /good/nice

job. 干得很棒 / 好 / 漂

亮

3). Well done!

• 干得好！• 4 ） Congradulations!

• 恭喜你！太棒了！• 5) Aced it! 一流的！• 6) Impressive! 很精彩！

7 ） .Thorough 很彻底8). Professional 很专业9). Quality work 上乘之

作

10 ） Good stuff! 很好！11 ） Feels like an A !

简直是一级棒！

2. Expressions to criticize someone’s

work

批评别人的几种表达法

1). Not up to standard 不合格

2). Not up to par

不符合标准

3). Needs improvement. 需要改进。

4 ） Room for improvement. 还可以做得更好

5). Do better next time. 下次争取做得更好。

6). Be more focused. 还应该再用心点。

7). Be more thorough. 还应该再完整、全面点儿。

8). Be more detail-oriented 还应该更具体些。

9). Be more professional. • 还应该更专业些。

3 回应别人赞扬的表达语• 1). Thank you/ Thank you very much!• 谢谢 / 非常感谢！• 2). Appreciate. 非常感激！• 3). Pleasure. 很荣幸！• 4). Glad to help. 乐意效劳！• 5) Glad you like it! 很高兴您喜欢• 6). Interesting /exciting project!• 这是很有意思 / 振奋人心的工作。

4 用于回复别人批评的用语• 1). Sorry. 很抱歉。• 2). Jumped the gun. 准备得太仓促了。• 3). Haste. 太急于求成了。• 4). Overlooked. 是我不够细心。• 5). Try harder. 我会更努力。• 6). I’ll improve. 我会改进。

Usage 使用 赞扬表达方式• 1. Excellent work. The CEO will be pleased.

• 2. This is wonderful. You aced it.

• 3. Wow! Your work is really impressive.

• 4. Good job!That presentation was of

• professional quality.

• 5. Great! Your report feels like an A.

提出批评的几种可取方式• 1. Unfortunately, this is not up to standard\not up

to par.

• 2. Not bad, but there’s room for improvement.

• 3. You need to be more focused.

• 4.There were gaps in your report. Please be more thorough.

• 5. The boss found careless mistakes in your proposal. Please be more detail-oriented.

应答赞扬的回答方式

• 1. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

• 2. It’s my pleasure.

• 3. I’m very glad to help.

• 4. I’m very glad you like it.

应答批评的几种方式

• 1. I’m sorry.

• 2. I acted it haste. I jumped the gun.

• 3. I overlooked some facts, I’ll be more thorough.

Culture 消极的批评方式

• 1. Lousy 很糟糕。• 2. Very poor. 很差。• 3. Very sloppy. 很粗糙。• 4. Terrible. 太可怕了。

Joan: Hi Sandra. Come on in.Sandra: Good morning, Joan.

Joan: I want to congratulate you on the Arelia project. That

was a job well done.Sandra: Thank you, Joan. I appreciate

it. It was a very interesting project. I really enjoyed working on

it.

• Joan: It looks like the ROI will be even better than your Ioma project, and you aced that one.

• Sandra: Thanks again. Now that was a real exciting project.

• Joan: Unfortunately, I must mention that, from what I’ve seen so far, the Kaly project does not seem to be up to your usual standard. Is there any problem I can help with?

• Sandra: Not really. I’ll get it back on track. I’m sorry. I think I jumped the gun on that one.

• Joan: I’m sure you can straighten things out. Well, keep up the good work. Sandra.

• Sandra: I’ll do my best.

Role-playing 角色表演

• 三人一组进行练习。其中一个人当上级，另外两个人当下属。

• 其中一个下属因为工作出色而得到上级的赞赏，而另一个下属则要遭受批评。

• 但要记住应该是建设性的、积极的批评，目的是帮下属做得更好。