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Business e-mail ’thank-you’ note

SPEAKING
What is a ’thank-you’ note / e-mail? When do you have to write one? Can you remember the last time when you had to write one? Do you have to write one these days?

PRE-LISTENING
Can you name the most important parts of a ’thank-you’ note that you usually use?
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LISTENING
List the four most important sections of a ’thank you’ note LAURA TURNER speaks about.
1 Start off with __________ people: e.g. Dear Co-workers
2 State you are _________ of them / _________ to them
3 Mention special _________ / _________
4 Detail __________ business

VOCABULARY 1
state = kijelent; mention = megemlít; detail = részletez
Now watch the video:

https://youtu.be/JmYejCeOixE
http://www.ehow.com/video_4984616_write-business-email-thankyou-note.html
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FOLLOW-UP LISTENING
Now listen again for the missing words and phrases and check yourself.

Video Transcript
Hi, this is Laura Turner and today I am going to talk with you about how to write a business e-mail thank you note.
Start off of course formally  the boss or if you are going to address a group of employees formally address them as either your colleagues, dear co-workers, something like that and of course get everybody's e-mail correct and put it all into your composed box. So just first of all decide are you writing this just to your boss or are you going to be writing it to the entire staff?
State of course next that you are them or you are  to the boss for whatever they did or you are proud of your team for doing well that week or whatever your thank you note is going to be about.
Also mention any kind of special  or activity that is going to happen because of what you have accomplished in your workplace.
Also finally detail any  business concerning the thank you and what is going on in the company and of course what is going to be next for you and your employees or what you hope will happen next with you and your boss.
So there you go for writing a thank you note to a business.

VOCABULARY
Choose from the words underlined and in the text boxes to match the Hungarian words.
1) alkalmazottak
2) büszke
3) eldönt
4) elér 
5) említ
6) hálás
7) hivatalosan
8) illetőleg, tárgyra vonatkozva
9) jutalom
10) kijelent
11) következő
12) részletez
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WRITING
Can you complete the following summary of Laura’s tips?
addresses
closing
group
individual
relevant
team

thank-you
sincere
Writing a business e-mail note begins by entering in recipient , formally addressing the  or  and expressing appreciation to the entire . Compose a professional thank-you e-mail, including news before the note, with advice from an educator in this free video on general education.

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