Unit 1 New Job, New Knowledge Lesson 4 Your Duty and Your Task © After this lesson, you should be able to: e get your tasks from your supervisor and start your work. ED isnage Foes) Business English 190 Situational Conversations Elementary ‘12 Warm-up (2 mins) Do you still remember your first task at your company? What are your main duties at work now? ‘©51Tak Proprietary and Confidedia.Q Setting & Conversation (9 mins) Setting (1 min) Kate is a new assistant for Alex at Johnson & Johnson. She was told that Alex would assign her several tasks in the following week. How should Kate ask about the details of her tasks? Kate: May lask ..? ‘0a Proprietary and ConiontisConversation (2 parts, 8 mins) Kate: Excuse me, Alex. As | am not familiar with this job, may | ask what my major job responsibilities are? Alex: Your responsibil Kate: Okay. Is there anything else Ineed to do? al ies include dealing with documents, sending and receiving e-mail Yes, You also need to make weekly reports. Can you handle that? Kate: No problem. What should | do today? ‘Alex: Please type and print these materials for me. Kate: Sure, May | ask when you need it done by? a p.m. this afternoon. Kate: Okay | will doit right now. ‘What are Kate's main job responsibilities? 1 2 a. ‘©51Tak Proprietary and Confidedia.(One week has passed. Alex is satisfied with Kate's work and is going to assign her more tasks.) a would like you to work on a weekly report for our department. Kate: When do you need it to be completed? al need to send it out before the next meeting. You have to hand it in by the end of this week. Kate: | will make it my top priority to have it done by Thursday. Do you have a bref for this report? al Yes.’ like you to include all the tasks we have done this week Kate: How would you like the report? By e-mail or in printed form? ‘Alex: Both, please, ‘Task Memo ‘what: — | ‘©51Tak Proprietary and Confidetia.2 Language Focus (4 mins) Read the sentences and ind a similar sentence from the blue box for sentence 1-5. £1. 1am not familiar with my new job. May lask what my major responsibilty is? 2. Anything else do I need to do? o 3. May lask when you need it done by? 4.00 you have a bref for this report? 5, How would you like the report? be familiar with Perens i erry ‘©51Tak Proprietary and Confidedia. 62 Practice (6 mins) You are the assistant to the teacher. You need to confirm your task in the following task memo. Please act out the conversation with your teacher. 6 Task Memo ‘What: Preparing wedding invitations for 1000 people “When: by the end of next week (5 daysleft) To-do: Mall the invitations ‘0a Proprietary and Coniontis? Wrap-up (2 mins) © Read the sentences in the table to review how to ask about your duty and your task. ‘What useful expressions do you remember? ‘Askabout your duty ‘Ask about your task ‘©51Tak Proprietary and Confidedia.