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Exercise 3. (5 min) Focus students' attention on the following quote:

"A bad manager confuses activity with performance".

The quote can be compared with the meaning of a business slang 'seagull
manager'. It is a manager who only becomes involved in a matter when a
problem is perceived to have arisen,especially when he or she has little other
knowledge about said matter and only causes more problems as a result of his
or her involvement.

Ex.:I'm sick of this new seagull manager. If he would just let us get on with
our work instead ofswooping in every time there's a hiccup, we'd nearly be
finished by now!

Exercise 4. (10 min) Give students enough time to read the story. Ask them
to find out features which made managers popular in the text. Let them discuss
it in small groups.

Exercise 5. (10 min) Ask students to look through the list of qualities for a
manager. Give them some time to rank six of them according to their importance.
Let them read the listing and prove its importance in pairs. Ask them to find out
the differences between a specialist and a manager.

speacialist - someone who has a lot of experience, knowledge or skill in a