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Task 2. Read and translate the glossady.
1. update – новинка;
2. on schedule – за розкладом;
3. to call (someone) into (one’s) office – закликати в офіс;
4. impressed with – здивований;
5. a promotion – підвищення за посадою;
6. hush-hush – секрет;
7. the heads up – завчасно отримана інформація;
8. title – посада;
9. raise – підвищення зарплати;
10. to put (one) in line – підняти в чиїхось очах;
11. to praise – хвалити;
12. to keep (one’s) head down – не привертати уваги;
13. to keep plugging away – продовжувати старанно працювати;
14. corporate climber – людина, яка стрімко рухається по кар’єрних сходинках;
15. a standout – найкращий;
16. to shake hands – потиснути руки;
17. to get a pat on the back – бути похваленим;
18. to jump the gun – йти поперед батька в пекло.

T: I want you to find more equivalents to the phrase “to jump the gun” at home and tell
the next time.

Task 3. Let’s read and translate the text.
Before leaving work for the day, I want to stop by my boss’s office to give him an
update on my progress. I know he’s expecting the report on Monday and I want to let him
know that it will be finished on schedule.
Before I can do that, he calls me into his office and tells me to sit down. He tells me
that the regional manager is impressed with my work and is considering me for a promotion.
He says that this information is hush-hush, but he wants to give me the heads up. He says that
the promotion would give me a new title and a small raise, but the most important thing is that
it will put me in line to eventually become a regional manager myself. He praises me for my
hard work and encourages me to keep my head down and to keep plugging away.
I’m so surprised, I don’t know what to say. I’ve never thought of myself as a corporate
climber and I didn’t think that my work was a standout from my coworkers’. Of course I
thank my boss, shake hands with him, and leave his office.
It’s nice to get a pat on the back from him and hope that the promotion does come
through. I don’t want to jump the gun, though, so I’m not going to think about it too much in
case it doesn’t happen.

T: Well, it is your turn to retell the text. Who is the first?
(Retelling)

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Task 4. Learn the new words.

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