2013届高考英语应用文写作讲解课件 Unit 6 Notes and Messages Lesson 2 Telephone Messages.ppt

Unit 6 Notes and Messages Lesson 1 Notes of Asking for Leave Lesson 2 Telephone Messages * Lesson 2 Telephone Messages Warming-up Answer the following questions: 1. Have you ever read and written messages? 2. Why do you write messages? 3. When do people write telephone messages? 4. What do people often put in the telephone messages? * Basic Structure of Lesson 2 Looking Ahead Approaching the Topic Ready to Write My Writing Further Practice Self-assessment * Looking Ahead (Aims and Contents) Understand the purposes of telephone messages. Learn the style of telephone messages. Write effective telephone messages. Use telephone messages skills while receiving and making calls. * Approaching the Topic Please read the material on Page 80 and answer the questions below. 1. Can you tell what it is? This is ___________________. 2. What is the use of it? It is used when _________________________ (the situation) 3. When daddy comes back and read the message, he would _____________________. a telephone message. a telephone is answered on behalf of another person. call Uncle Ling Yu to check whether he had lost his briefcase. * FROM: Abel To: Kevin TIME: Sunday Morning MESSAGE: Call Abel this afternoon at 6670730 Reference * Ready to Write Learning Focus When a telephone is answered on behalf of another person, a clear and concise telephone message or telephone memo should be written. In a telephone message, there is necessarily a heading and the subject part, and sometimes there are boxes to tick showing what to do about the call, i.e. call back, wait for call, etc. * The Heading part includes: 1) the time one gets the telephone; 2) the person to whom the message is intended; 3) the caller’s name; 4) the company, office, or work unit the caller is in (This is especially important in business occasion); 5) the caller’s telephone number or ways to contact; 6) the name of the person who gets the call or who writes the memo. Most organizations or com