Job Responsibilities

What do you do (in your job)?
What is your main job?
What are you in charge of?

I am in charge of training employees.
I am responsible for watering the plants.
I take care of corporate accounts.
I usually answer telephones.
I mainly write reports.
I repair jet engines. Read more

Invitations

Informal:

Would you like to . . .

We're going to . . . . Would you like to come along?

There's a . . . . (tonight). Would you like to go?

How about (V+ing) . . . ?

Do you want to . . . ?

I wonder if you would like to . . .

I was wondering if you would like to . . .

Formal:

I'd like to invite you to . . .

If you have time, I'd like to invite you . . .

Would you like to join us for (event) at (time) ?

We'd be glad to have you accompany us . . .

We'd be delighted/honored to have you as our guest at . . . Read more

Forward-Looking Statements

Forward-Looking Statements

What are your plans for the future?

What are your projections for the next quarter?

What do you expect to achieve (in the near future)?

What are your (sales) projections for next six months?

What are your goals for the coming year?


We expect . . .

We plan to . . .

We project . . .

We hope to . . .

We should . . .

We will be (V+ing) . . .

If all goes as planned,

Our projections are . . .

According to our projections, Read more

Expressing Appreciation

Thanks.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.


Thanks for the tour.

Thank you for the nice gift.

I appreciate your hospitality.

I appreciate your lending me the chain saw. Read more

Explaining

Can you explain . . .

Can you tell me why . . .

Why . . .

What happened . . .


Well, . . .

Let me explain.

Let me tell you why . . .

Here's what happened:

There's a (good) reason for this:

The reason is . . .


I'm sorry. I can't tell you that (right now).

Can I get back to you on that?

I'll explain (a little) later.

We'll come to that later.

We'll get to that in a few minutes.

Can we save that until later? Read more