Business/05

• English
• Special Education

MORE FORMAL:

-Mr Lee, I'd like to introduce Peter Crown. He's the president of Alphabet Inc.

-How do you do, Mr Crown? It's a pleasure meeting you.

-I'm pleased to meet you too, Mr Big.

Introductions

FORMAL:

-I don't believe we've met. Allow me to introduce myself: I'm Adolf Swine.

-Nice to meet you, Mr Swine. I'm Kevin Bacon.

INFORMAL:

-Hello, My name is Rezső Kovács. I'm the new accountant of the company.

-Welcome to the firm, Rezső. I'm Tódor Szabó. I've been looking forward to meeting you.

Read the following text about history of money!

Discussion:

1. How effective is bartering today?

2. Have you ever bartered something? What and why?

3. What is the reason for the renewed interest in bartering today?

4. Why do you think people favour the use of money to bartering in general?

Watch for this! You can easily ruin a colleague's workday.

Choose the correct answer!

Emailing

Could you please ______ that email that you got from Frank?

1. forward me
2. forward to me
3. forward it to me

When you send your report to Tom, make sure to _______ me as well.

1. forward
2. copy (or cc - pron. "seesee")
3. send

Somehow your email ended up in my _______ folder.

1. trash mail
2. bad mail
3. junk mail

You must have ______ my message by mistake.

1. deleted
2. delete
3. destroyed

Sending someone a "hidden" copy of an email is known as:

1. cheating
2. cc-ing someone (pron. seeseeing someone)
3. bcc-ing someone (pron. beeseeseeing someone)

To send something by mistake = To send something ___________.

1. by chance
2. by accident
3. by error

You should always use appropriate, businesslike language in all _______
communications.

1. electronic
2. electric
3. electrode

I thanked him for his _______. ( = answer)

1. replication
2. replay
3. reply

Many big companies have a system which _______ (=keeps track of/ checks)
their employees' email.

1. overlooks
2. monitors
3. looks

I didn't get that _______. ( = file that is attached to a message)

1. attachment
2. copy
3. attack

Goodbye!