本期节目话题背景
最近，有同学问了这样一道题“Describe a disagreement you had with someone”。这个话题让我想起了我上大学时遇到的一件事。当时我们需要做一个小组作业，其中有个小组成员总是迟到，甚至不出席我们的小组讨论会，这真是让我太生气了！具体情况如何，咱们一起来聊一聊吧！
正所谓众人拾柴火焰高，在我们日常生活中明显能感受到团队协作的重要性。但是学习或工作中总会遇到一些不配合团队工作的人，这时候你会如何解决这个难题呢？
本期Part 2 话题
Describe a disagreement you had with someone
You should say :
Who you had the disagreement with
What the disagreement was
What happened and explain how you felt about it
本期节目话题参考文本
Back in university, we had lots of project work to do. I was pursuing a degree in business administration. For this one particular assignment, we were divided into teams of 3-4 people to work on a simulation task during the third semester of first year.
Each team had to run a car manufacturing company using a simulation program. We had to make decisions as the simulated market conditions changed and each group’s performance would be compared weekly. At the end of the semester, we would have to prepare a presentation on our project.
We had agreed to meet each other once a week to discuss and check the progress of our work. During that time, occasionally we would discuss urgent matters over email or video calls.
Despite what I considered to be clear communication and constant reminders, a member of our group named Max was often late or even worse, didn’t attend our meetings. This really bothered me in particular, as I had hoped for each member to contribute equally and I truly believed we’d be stronger with his participation. I confronted him about the issues and he seemed to think I was overreacted and it wasn’t a big deal.
After a heated discussion and disagreement, I finally said that you must be on time and present for every meeting from now on or you should go and find yourself another group. Though he remained silent, I think he understood. From that moment onwards, we managed to complete the project with no further problems. This was a really awkward situation for me as Max was actually a great friend of mine outside of school and I was concerned that this could affect our relationship going forward. Fortunately, it didn’t.
Words & expressions in this episode
1. simulation n. 模拟；仿真；假冒
2. manufacture n./v. 大量制造；生产
3. occasionally adv. 偶尔地；有时候；偶然
4. heated adj. 愤怒的；激烈的；激动的
