English for personal assistants - part 15 ppsx

... procedures e) Assigning roles f) Ensuring clarity from the participants for the benefit of everyone g) Keeping the discussion moving forward h) Keeping control i) Securing agreement j) Closing ... meeting? For example: ᭤ date, time, and venue ᭤ ᭤ ᭤ ᭤ Minutes 73 Sample Minutes The regular weekly meeting of the marketing department was held on Friday, August 10, 20XX at 11 a.m. All departme...

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... Heusenstamm Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany ISBN 97 8-3 -8 34 9-0 13 0-9 Annie Broadhead | Ginni Light English for Personal Assistants The essential handbook for doing business internationally

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... convenient for her to join us at the meeting. Meeting her is very useful for us all so we are very pleased by this. Sorry about this confusion, but the new plan is for the best. I or my Personal ... information in the department and (12) reduce the burden on the person in charge of ordering from the stores. We might (13) ask her to take a more active part in producing the annual rep...

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... form of written communication used within an organisation. It generally contains no more than a single piece of information/request and usually asks for/ recommends action. Memos are not as formal ... be verbal and where possible face-to-face or on the phone. Using email and other written forms of communication is not advisable as feedback is essentially two-way traffic. Many people perceiv...

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... all the conditional forms in English, read Appendix D, page 167. You might like to do that before doing Task 7. ᭿ Task 7 There are four mistakes in the use of conditional forms in paragraphs ... let’s go for lunch. B: No, I’m not going out for lunch today A: Oh, please, it won’t take long. B: No, I’m not going out for lunch today A: Oh, go on, I’ll pay. B: No, I’m not going out for l...

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... we were planning for next week in New York for all European department heads – well it’s been cancelled because my boss is ill. Can you let your people know please asap. I’m waiting for your call ... interpret and form OVERALL patterns of all the information that is collected and records these patterns and relationships. It speculates on POSSIBILITIES, including looking into and forecas...

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... seriously but, (4) first and foremost, you need to bring (5) temperature down for (6) sake of (7) whole group. If you can and you think it might help, have some one-on-one time with (8) loose cannon and ... one-on-one time with (8) loose cannon and try to find out what sets them off. The ‘yes-to-everything’ The ‘yes-to-everything’ needs to be liked – they always try to please everyone and o...

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... books etc. A non-countable noun is the name of something that cannot be counted: milk, money, freedom, justice. A non-countable noun does not take “a” or “an” and does not have a plural form. Use “a” ... subscript for formulas. A professional proofreader puts a mark in the line and writes the correction in the margin. An editor makes corrections within the line rather than in the margin (in...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 Best-practice emails and working in multi-cultural teams · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 21 Advantages of emails . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Telephoning in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – Leaving a voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . .....

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... SPECIAL including discounts for cash sales. 10. Look forward to receiving your order for tomatoes in the very near future. ᭿ Task 2 This sentence is over-long, over-complex, and incomprehensible. ... responsible for updating the database. (3) , at the end of the month, when most people want replacements from the stores, and (4) require information from the database, he is unable to perf...

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