文档介绍：Unit 4 Summaries, notes, reports
Objectives
Focus
Warming up
Summarizing a conversation
Using notes to write a report
Planning and editing a report
Sum-up
Assignment
objectives
This unit deals with how to take notes in business contexts, how to summarize conversations and how to plan and write reports. It's a unit which can be used either as an introduction for students with little experience in report- and summary writing.
Focus
Sharpening and practicing note-, summary- and report-writing
Practice in the preparatory and planning stages of all serious and professional writing activities
Warming up
In business we only write reports when we are asked to, normally by our boss or superior. Many people are afraid of writing reports. In this unit we want to show how note taking and report writing can be made easier. The unit takes up some of the elements of Unit 2 on letters, e-mails, faxes and memos, but it concentrates on the more specialized skill of writing reports and making summaries of conversations.
Summarizing a conversation
This section introduces the topic of using English for different purposes in business.
Taking notes on information you hear and summarizing the main points of a conversation are very munication skills when using English in business.
A warm-up discussion
Business English is used in various ways.
Further discussion questions:
Which of the methods are you familiar with? How often do you use the methods illustrated in your own work?
How effective do you find them? How easy or difficult are they for you to do in English?
B Listening
Different styles of notes may be suited to different circumstances. Numbered notes may well be useful for ‘easy reference’. More discursive notes may be appropriate as ‘a record for the files’.
Listen to the recording two times.
look at the three notes and choose the best one.
Listen to the recording again. And draft your own summary in the way, which you find the most appropriat