English for personal assistants - part 6 pptx

TNX thanks

TTFN ta-ta (bye) for now

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To email or not from your work computer

Task 4

Look at the situations below – for which ones could you send an email from your work

computer?

1. You’ve heard an embarrassing story about a colleague you dislike.

2. You urgently need a report from a colleague – you’ve reminded her once but she

still hasn’t sent it.

3. You want to change the time and date of a business meeting.

4. You were supposed to send out an agenda for tomorrow’s meeting but you forgot

to.

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