STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Today's topic

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Do you see yourself as 'confident' and 'efficient' or 'insecure' and 'ineffective'?

Discuss your strengths and weaknesses, then decide which of your classmates you would hire!

STRENGTHS

hard working

I will try my best to do my job

Responsible

I will try my best to finish my daily work

friendly

WEAKNESSES

No patience

I sometimes don’t have much patience to communicate with others

Lack of self-confidence

I don't have the confidence to do something I have never done before

No perseverance
what are the characteristics of a goog employee? a bad employee?
good

working skills

flexible

good communicate with others

good team worker


bad

lazy

dirty

irresponsible

INT: Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths/ Weaknesses (opposites)

·     Focused/ Distracted

·     Fast (learner)/ Slow (learner)

·     Sociable/ Unsociable

·     Responsible/ Irresponsible

·     Reliable/ Unreliable

·     Hard-working/ Lazy

·     Trusting/ Untrusting, Suspicious

·     Positive/ Negative

·     Punctual/ Late

·     Trustworthy/ Untrustworthy

·     Honest/ Dishonest

·     Friendly/ Unfriendly

·     Experienced/ Inexperienced

·     Motivated/ Unmotivated

·     Efficient/ Inefficient

·     Fearless/ Fearful

·     Risk-taker/ Risk-adverse

·     Knowledgeable/ Unknowledgeable

·     Ambitious/ Unambitious

·     Active/ Inactive

·     Competitive/ Uncompetitive

·     Confident/ unconfident, insecure

·     Flexible/ inflexible

Ripple (China)

It's my responsibility to make sure that everything's still where it's supposed to be.
My even [not 'not bad'] temper... so I can get along with my co-workers to do my work.

A good employee [no 'have'] always prefers to work in groups.

He always have bad effect on [not 'to'] other co-workers.

Pronunciation: plurals 

Eistert (China)

Sometimes, I have no patience.
Most of the time [not 'The most of time'], I have no perseverance. 

Pronunciation: plurals, 'th' sounds

Ziran (China)

A good employee needs a responsible characteristic, hard-working...
You must work hard, have good relations with other [not 'another'] co-workers.
A bad employee is not responsible at their place of work, not hard working.
Vocabulary: badmouth (bad employees speak lot of bad things about a good employee)
Pronunciation: 'th' sounds

Leon (China)

I work as an engineer.
I still have [not 'has'] several kinds of weaknesses.
Pronunciation: 'th' sounds (think, with)
Cynthia (China)
Pronunciation: strengths, inexperienced, motivated, inefficient (in-F-E-she-ant)

Jessica (China)

Carol (China)

I don't have many [not 'much'] hobbies.

I think my strengths are [not 'will be']...

I'm a little bit impatient [not 'lack of patience'].

I don't know how to socialize with others.

Maybe we have to consider firing [not 'about fire'] them.

Pronunciation: 'th' sounds