Practice 1 Suppose you are the secretary of the manager of a company. You attended the negotiation between your company and a foreign company, Write a memo of the negotiation. The memo should include. (1) time and place of the negotiation (2) participants of the negotiation (3) content of the negotiation including the agreement reached and the differences that still remain (4) the time for the next negotiation You should write approximately 100 words.
Practice 3 ● You work as a secretary in a company. You got a sudden dizzy faint this morning on March 10, 2008, so you had to ask for leave from your boss, Mike Brown:
● Write a note:
● asking for a sick leave,
● explaining the reason,
● stating when you will be back.
●Write 30-40 words on the opposite page.
The boss recommended()the secretary should have a long weekend.
There will be an international conference next month. The secretary says we’ll have to set off tomorrow. In fact, ______ .
What did U.S. Secretary of Agriculture do last week?
The league secretary and monitor()asked to make a speech at the meeting.
The boss recommended()the secretary should have a long weekend.
Everybody()in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.
Practice 2 ●You are the secretary of the manager of the Sales Department. A recent decline in sales volume worried the manager deeply and he wanted to hold a meeting to discuss the reasons at 4 p.m. today in the 2nd Meeting Hall.
●Write a note to all the staff of the Sales Department:
● informing them of the time, place and content of the meeting,
● asking them to sum up the reasons before hand,
● telling them to prepare to discuss in details.
●Write 30-40 words.
The author quotes U. N. Secretary General’s remark in the last paragraph mainly to demonstrate that ______.