11stst Class Period Class Period-----Roberts-----Roberts

your speech What is the topic?

Who will make speech?

To learn the definition & usage of report

To know the functions types& of report

To understand the parts of formal business report according to a sample

To analyze the sample in details

Task Stimulation :P 97

Questionnaire:

1.Our company has lost its advantages over its competitors recently. So we need to do sth.

2.We are not satisfied with the old pattern production.

3. The future is unknown, we’d better be conscious( 意识到）…

Read the materials and answer the questions

Various usage of reports

1.business…2. marketing…3.project…

Functions 1.Give information

2.Make analysis

3.Provide recommendations

Discussion

Characteristics of language & tone

Appropriate tense of report

Parts of a formal business report

Read “Customer Comments On Our Product” on Page 99 and tell the parts of report.

Terms of reference

Proceedings

Findings

Conclusions

Recommendations

Anything Anything else?else?

Title Title

signaturesignature

Title

Report on …

e.g Report on the Possibilities of the New Project

REPORT ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEW PROJECT

Terms of reference 授权调查范围

1. Why is the report written? 2. What is the report about? 3. When does the report need to be submitted?

# request a report on sth… # want to know… # be ready for… #be submitted to sb (date)

Attention : 一般过去时或现在完成时

Practice:Practice:Try it Try it

yourself yourself

Terms of reference

Ms.Liu wanted to launch a new project in the second half year of 2013.

He requested a report on the staff’s opinions of the plan’s possibilities.

The report should be ready for the next board meeting.

授权调查范围

Useful Expressions of Introduction

This report aims to…

The report is based on…

The aim\purpose of this report is to…

Procedure 进程

How was the information gathered?

Where was the information gathered?

# read & analyze the results of…

Procedure 进程

# read & analyze the results of…

I read the analyzed the results of comments on the plan written by 36 staff numbers.

Findings 调查结果

Read the findings on Page 99 and find the characteristics of the findings:

1. 根据调查问卷而得出的结果 2. 时态用过去式。 Practice : What’s your findings ?

Expressions of Findings

The following points summarized our key findings.

The key findings are outlined below.

Conclusions & Recommendation

Practice : what’s your conclusions & recommendations

It is clear that…

It can be concluded from the report that…,and it is of great importance that…

It is suggested\proposed\recommended that…

We strongly recommend that…

Conclusions & Recommendation

Task 3 Decide whether the following statements are

conclusions or recommendations.

Task 4 Rearrange

Assignment

Task 2 on Page 104

Happy Day!