How to Handle Post Firing Guilt
- Silvina Mascitti
- 31 ago 2023
- 1 Min. de lectura
Actualizado: 2 sept 2023
Topics: Business English - job termination - empathy
Level: B1 and above
Skills: Reading and Speaking
Link to original article: How Do You Deal With the Guilt That Comes With Firing an Employee?.
Link to video: How to Fire with Compassion (Quick Study)
Aims:
To talk about past experiences when firing employees
To talk abour reasons for an employee to get fired
To read a letter from a reader who asks for advice
To discuss the main ideas of a text
To express opinion and reaction towards the topic
To reflect on one's real or hypothetical experiences
To give advice to the reader
To compare and contrast information and ideas
Use of language & lexis:
To use different tenses to talk about past and present experiences
To learn / review vocabulary related to guilt and suffering (to feel guilt/compassion (+ noun), to feel guilty/bummed/terrible/ (+ adjective), to grieve for... etc.)
To learn / review vocabulary related to job termination (to let go, to fire, to dismiss, to get fired, to be sacked, etc.)
To learn / review phrases for giving advice
To work on emergent language
Photo by Zoran Nayagam on Unsplash
Thank you so much for this lesson. The questions have made my business students discuss for a very long time! The texts and video were thought-provoking as well as clear. Amazing!