Express Yourself

Learning how to express yourself in different situations is one of the best investments you can make for your future. This means knowing how to choose both appropriate language and appropriate form and medium for communication. For instance, communication with your boss should be done via email using formal language, while communication with your friends is best done through texts or social media using informal language.

You have been selected for a job interview and want to confirm the time and place of the meeting.

Hey, we still meeting today?

Where and when? -J Hello Mr Jones, I just want to confirm our interview at 16.00 today. Best regards, Jim Green

You are supposed to meet a friend at the gym, but he is 45 minutes late.

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To Ben Brooman

Subject 3 o’clock workout

Hi, where are u? Everything ok? Weren’t we working out at 3? Dear Ben, Please update me on your whereabouts. I am concerned as you have not arrived for our 3 o’clock workout. Please contact me as soon as possible. Best regards, Jim

customer service at an airport to ask about lost luggage a classmate about a homework assignment you need explained CONTACTING

a customer to move an appointment ACTION 15 How would you have replied to the inappropriate messages? 16 What impression do you get of the people who wrote the messages? Explain your answers. 17 Translate the messages to Norwegian. 18 Write replies to the appropriate messages. 19 In pairs, create similar examples of appropriate and inappropriate messages for at least two of the following situations. You may choose what medium you would use to send them (email, message, social media, etc.). Pay attention to language and form. Vurderingseksemplaran international company asking for information about a potential job 20 Swap examples with another pair, study their examples and create suitable replies to both their appropriate and inappropriate messages.

a teacher about an assignment you forgot your boss to say that you are late for an appointment