English for Emails all those annoying adverts usually go.
But
sometimes good emails go there too, so
Unit 3: Organising your emails remember to check from time to time. Do
you ever worry because you just deleted an
Task 1 email by mistake? Don’t worry – just look in
Complete the sentences with the right word. the (3. Deleted / Drafts / Contacts) folder. It’s
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probably still there. Sometimes it can be
Deleted items / Junk email / Sent items / difficult to find an old email. So why not put
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Contacts / Inbox / Folders or tags with them into (4. Folders / Junk email / Sent ) to
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names you decide / Drafts make them easy to find? You can do this for
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any emails you wrote too – you can find
1. Places to keep your emails so that them in (5. Inbox / Sent / Deleted). Some
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you can easily find them people keep hundreds of business cards
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with people’s email address and phone
2. Emails you do not want to keep number. You don’t need to do this – use
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3. Adverts and emails from addresses address book, and it can store all these
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you do not know details for you. Have you ever found it
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4. Email addresses of the people you worry – just save it under (7. Deleted / Junk
know email / Drafts) and finish it later!
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5. Usually the first place emails Task 3
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6. The emails you have sent to people choose the correct answers.
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7. Emails you have started writing but 1. How many of the emails have you not
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not sent read yet?
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word in brackets. 2. What was Hatem Trabelsi’s email on
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Wednesday about?
Most emails that you get go straight to your a) a meeting
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(1. Drafts / Inbox / Contacts). This is where b) a payment
you decide which emails to read and which c) a computer problem
to delete. But if your server doesn’t
recognise the address of a sender, it will 3. Who replied to Hatem Trabelsi’s
probably put the email in the (2. Deleted / email?
Sent / Junk email) mail folder. This is where a) nobody
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b) Tomoko Nakahata
c) Patricia Bartlett and Samir
4. How many of the emails have an
attachment?
a) 0
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5. Who has sent you an invitation?
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b) Ali Al-Habsi
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a) Monday and Tuesday
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b) Tuesday and Wednesday
c) Monday and Wednesday
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From Subject Received
✉ Samir RE: Meeting next week Today 9:21 AM
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✉ Tomoko Nakahata training course Today 9:03 AM
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✉ Hashim Saleh Are you free for lunch tomorrow? Wednesday 7:12 PM
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Patricia Bartlett RE: Meeting next week Wednesday 4:18 PM
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Ali Al-Habsi FW: payment received Wednesday 11:45 AM
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Hatem Trabelsi Meeting next week Wednesday 9:03 AM
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Youssef Zouaoui air conditioning in meeting room 32A Tuesday 4:23 PM
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IT Helpdesk RE: Computer problem Tuesday 2:05 PM
Tomoko Nakahata minutes from last week's meeting Tuesday 11:02 AM
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Ali Al-Habsi Sorry – here's the attachment! Monday 6:49 PM
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Answers
Task 1
1. Places to keep your emails so that
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you can easily find them Folders or
tags with names you decide
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2. Emails you do not want to keep
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Deleted items
3. Adverts and emails from addresses
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you do not know Junk email
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4. Email addresses of the people you
know Contacts
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5. Usually the first place emails arrive
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Inbox
6. The emails you have sent to people
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Sent items
7. Emails you have started writing but
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not sent Drafts
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1. Inbox
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2. Junk email
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1. a) 3
2. a) a meeting
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3. c) Patricia Bartlett and Samir
4. b) 6
5. a) Hashim Saleh
6. c) Monday and Wednesday
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