ENGLISH FOR PERSONAL ASSISTANTS PART 38 DOCX

Outreach means the activity of an organisation that provides a service or advice to people in the community, especially those who cannot or who are unlikely to come to an office, a hospital etc. for help.
“Passive outreach model” in this context means the college does not just want to use e[r]

abstracts, cards for various occasions
Organising a conference
When inviting speakers or delegates to a conference you’re organising, you need to make sure the person gets all the information they require. You may put this information on your Website and/or you may directly mail or emai[r]

If you prefer to decide using values and/or personal beliefs, on the basis of what you believe is important or what you or others care about, then your preference is for Feeling. This is denoted by the letter “F”.
4. How do you prefer to organise your life?

䊏 Task 7
Insert the appropriate prepositions, e.g., at, in, on etc. into the letter below.
You may sometimes be asked to provide a letter of reference of a more personal nature, commenting on a person’s suitability to e.g., work for a charity or join a foundation etc. The same g[r]

2. The deadline for Marc to have collated the information packs for delegates attending the conference is today. You see no evidence of this being done. Speak to Marc.
3. New stationery supplies are distributed to the offices on the 5th of every month. It is the 6th and your stock ha[r]

䊏 Task 3 Suggested answer
There are three reasons why exercise is good for you. First, it keeps you fit and can help to keep your weight down. Second, it keeps you healthy and can reduce the likelihood of having heart problems. Finally, it can help to keep stress levels down and has been k[r]

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. I’m from Company XYZ and my name’s Helga Braun. As you may know, I’m responsible for organizing this Office Congress and I’d like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the two-day[r]

䊏 Task 7
1. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me 2. I know that things weren’t perfect
3. what I’d really like to know is what suggestions you’ve got that would ensure that ... 4. it’s always a learning curve for me to get feedback on an event

Meanwhile, Walt Wolfram’s sociolinguistic research over several dec- ades taught him that just about everyone is curious about dialects. After all, one can hardly avoid noticing and wondering about language differ- ences in daily interactions with people from all walks of life. The problem, however,[r]

Next time you have to deal with someone from a different culture whether on the phone, face-to-face, or by email, it’s a good idea to reflect on what you know about that culture. Therefo[r]

䊏 Task 11 Suggested answer
Dear Mr Oldman
We regret that we will have to move the date of our meeting from Tuesday August 2 to Thursday August 4. This late change in our appointment is due to the fact that our new CEO would like to take the opportunity to meet you too and he is only available[r]

䊏 Task 5 Suggested answers
1. Hello this is ............., PA to Mr X. I am afraid that Mr X has been held up in Italy and will therefore not be able to make the meeting at 9 tomorrow. He suggests meeting on Friday afternoon at a time convenient for you or if Friday doesn’t suit you, perha[r]

in multi-cultural teams
Email is rapidly overtaking letter writing as the most common form of written communication. We tend to transfer our communication style from our native language to a foreign language. This can throw up cross-cultural issues as email is an instant form of communication an[r]

We have to change the venue of the next meeting from Rome to Oslo.
So please ignore yesterday’s email. The reason of the change is that Clara Sullivan has a meeting in Oslo on the same day. So it’s convenient for her to join us at the meeting. Meeting her is very useful for us all so[r]

䊏 Scenario for Task 7
You have been asked to give an introductory talk to new junior members of staff from your offices around Europe on the subject ‘Organising a conference’ . You have prepared the following talk and because it’s in English you’ve decided to write it out in full.

Complaining by telephone
The scenario
Imagine you’ve organised for your company to take part in an international trade fair; it’s a prestigious event for your company – all the movers and shapers will be there. You have liaised with the trade fair organisers and made all the[r]

䊏 Task 8 Suggested answer
Dear Mr. Vozenko
I am writing to you to point out that I find one aspect of your behaviour towards me unacceptable, that is, the comments of a sexist nature which you make towards me. For example, at Monday’s Department meeting you said, Vanessa hasn’t emailed m[r]

䉴 topics to be discussed
and should be accompanied by the relevant background information.
䊏 Task 3
You are based in London. Your company has grown in size over the last few years and is, therefore, opening a second office not too far away from the present one. The Sales & Marketing Depa[r]

you that
䊏 Task 9
The scenario:
A good customer ordered 6 boxes of product CJ 784510. The order should have been delivered on 20 th June. However, due to problems at the logistics company you use, the delivery is late. Your customer has telephoned to complain. You have looked into the problem[r]

In the NPACI HPC/science environment, there are three general classes of potential Grid users. First, there are end users who only run prepackaged applications, most com- monly launched in Unix shell windows on the HPC resources. Adapting these applications to the Grid by adding a simple Web interfa[r]