Reading · English · B1 · Text 9 of 10
A Mentoring Scheme Learns from Its First Year
Practise B1 English reading with an original text about professional development.
- 1Prepare
- 2Read
- 3Check
- 4Produce
- 5Wrap-up
1 · Prepare
Before you read
Your mission
Identify the main idea, check evidence, and reconstruct the sequence.
Key vocabulary
2 · Read
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A technology company launched a mentoring scheme so new employees could ask questions outside their immediate teams. During the first three months, the company people according to department and . The matches looked logical on paper, but several pairs rarely met because their projects had similar deadlines. In the second term, participants were allowed to choose a meeting time before accepting a match, and mentors received a short guide with possible topics. Attendance improved, although some new employees still felt that the relationship was too formal. The organisers then added an optional monthly group session where participants could share a problem without naming a colleague. Feedback showed that the scheme was most useful when mentors listened before offering advice. The company will continue it, but the next evaluation will examine confidence, , and promotion rather than attendance alone. One quiet success was that several mentors from different departments began meeting on their own to compare notes, which slowly spread useful practices across the company. Managers were asked not to attend these sessions, so that new employees could speak freely. The organisers admitted that measuring belonging was difficult, and they planned to combine short anonymous surveys with simple questions asked during ordinary one-to-one meetings. The organisers say a mentoring programme cannot replace good management; it can create an additional route for learning and belonging.
3 · Check
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4 · Produce
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5 · Wrap-up
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What you practised
- Locate explicit information and relationships between ideas.
- Explain an answer with textual evidence.
Support for Spanish speakers
Look for connectors and repeated words before translating every sentence.
Cultural note
The context is original and serves as a reading scenario; real practices may vary.
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B1.
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