Week6-May21

・TASK

a - A colleague wants you to sign something.
→9 - Can I just check that with you?

b - Your colleague leaves a few seconds later.
→4 - I'll have to go, I'm afraid. Something's come up.

c - There's a lot of noise right outside your office.
→1 - Sorry, could you speak up a little?

d - Your boss wants a word with you - now!
→7 - Excuse me a moment.

e - Someone else is trying to call you.
→2 - Look, I've got someone on the other line. Can I call you back?

f - The caller gives you their name - it's unpronounceable!
→8 - Sorry, could you spell that for me, please?

g - You think you misunderstood the information the other person just gave you.
→5 - Sorry about that. Where were we?

h - You gave the caller a lot of information very quickly.
→3 - OK? Did you get all that?

i - The other person just won't stop talking!
→6 - Anyway, I won't keep you any longer. Speak to you soon.

・Questions
1.First, we practiced making phonecalls.we moved around and did practical activities. There were four situations, Leaving a Message,Selling your product, Requesting Travel Information,and Product Information. We made phone calls both sides, reciever and caller. Then, we did listening comprehension on page 18.


2.I enjoyed these activities very much, because four situations already have their information, I enjoyed thinking how to say on the phone. We learned the expression that how to start, ask and tell information. It was little difficult to say smoothly, but it's fun to use them. I want to talk more clearly and smoothly. And also, I want to learn more expression you'll use.

3. Some situations were easy, but others were very difficult. Requesting Travel Information was not so difficult. However, Leaving a message and Product Information were very hard for me. I couldn't tell a receiver the information I wanted to tell, because I didn't know the some words. And, Leaving a message the side of receiver, I didn't catch caller's information adequately.
Listening work was difficult to hear caller's message. I could arrange the sentence from the receiver's messsage, but caller's speed was very fast and there was a word I don't know.

4.I learned how to make phonecalls both sides of receiver and caller. It is important for caller to write down what I need to know. And, the situation of Leaving a message, it is important to catch the information from caller in the post of assistant. "Anything else?" is very great phrase for receiver!! It is kindness for caller who wanted to know the information, and they satisfied.

Week-5

・TASK

1,(b)It's /I'm calling about an invoice.- C
　(c)Can I speak to Jane Green, please?-C
　(d)Can I ask who's calling, please? -C
　(e)Can I take a message? -R
　(f)Can I get back to you on that? -R
　(g)Can I leave it with you? -R
　(h)Can I call you back? -R
　(i)Could you speak up, please? -B
　(j)Could you say that again? -B
　(k)Could you spell that, please? -B
　(l)Could you hold on a moment, please? -R
　(m)Could you read that back to me? -B
　(n)Could you tell me when s/he'll be back? -C
　(o)Could you ask her to call me back? -C

2,I learned "Could you" is more polite than "Can you" when I was a junior high school student. But I don't know why I learned like that. I think that "Could you" is seems like asking one's possibility for your ask.

・Questions

1. In warm up, we wrote 2 patterns of voice message for Mr. Sato about the job interview, OK pattern and NG patten. And, we learned how to suggest other ways to get the job interview if I didn't go to the job interview. After that, we made a voice message from the memo with my partner. Finishing the work, we listened the answer. And we listened the on 15page. We learned what a professinal and a unprofessinal is from the tape.

2. Yes, I enjoyed so much! I think it is very useful for my job hunting, because I learned how to make voice massage for job interview. I wanted to tell clearly and polite in the future. And, to understand the message from the memo will be needed in the work, so it was very informative lesson. In addition, I learned it is important to pickup the nessesary information from the memo. It was very interesting!

3.In 17page, 7memos have different porposes and business circumstances, so it is difficult to understand their situations. Question F, this is the private massage, so I took a few minutes to solve. But it was very interesting!
Other activitis are not so difficult.

4.I learned how to make voice massage. I have to say my name, greeting, porpose, and if I need, some suggestion. To do this smoothly, I have to prepare the massage which I want to tell before calling. And, I learned that understanding the meaning of massage from the memo. I understood what information should record the memo.(date, name, figure, urgent)
This class is very useful!

Week4

Task
・dinner/restaurant reservation
(1)the number of people
(2)time and date
(3)dinner course
(4)budget
(5)name
(6)phone number

*Hotel(reservation)
(1)the number of people
(2)date (check in and check out)
(3)about cost
(4)type of room
(5)number of room
(6)name
(7)phone number,address
(8)add breakfast service
(9)days of staying

Work
1,In work up of last class, We talked about experience of making call in English. And, We had some listening activities on page10. Lastlly, we did exercises of matching verbs and sentences on page15.


2, Yes, I did. I enjoyed these activities, but, It was difficult for me. So, I need to repeat them many times. I want to develop my listening skill... However, we could exchange ideas and answers with my classmates. This activity was good for me!

3, I thought today's class was hard for me, because listening questions was difficult for us. We had much times to solve. But in warm up, we could say many ideas to reserve something.

4,I have never reserved something in Japanese, pizza order, hotel reservation, dinner reservation, and so on. So, I didn't know what information is needed in the case of Japanese. I learned how to make calls not only English but also Japanese. I'm not good at answerong calls in Japanese, so it must be hard to do in English. I should prepare a note which is organized the information before making calls as you said.

Week3

Task
Conversation starters
・Can you tell me a litte about yourself?
・How are you enjoying the conference?
・Who do you work for?
・Are you giving a presentaion?
・It's nice day today, isn't it?

Conversation Enders
・Can I get you anything from the buffet?
・ I want to talk with him. Do you want come with me?
→No.-Ok. It was nice meeting you.

・Can I get you a drink?
→ No. - Ok. It was nice meeting you. See you later.
・I really enjoyed chatting with you.
・ Thank you for your time.

Questions
1.First, We made questions from some information. And, We studied conversation starters, enders, and interrupting in business conference.And, we made a business card, and talked to my classmates using my business card.

2.I enjoyed so much. Because I learned many types of conversation. And, I learned how to interrupt conversations. It was good for me to learn them.

3.It was difficult. Because I'm not used to say these phareses. so I can't continue the conversation well. I want to use them more smoothly.

4. I learned how to use these prases,interrupt conversations.
listen--catch their keywords from their conversation.
And, we should use Y/N question first. Then we should use Wh- questions. It is good for us to keep our conversation.