【正文】 this up by apologizing again. “Mary, I realize this is inconvenient and I do apologize. Could we please reschedule for Friday of the same week? I have the same time of 3:00 available. What does your schedule look like?” Reading B How to Cancel an Appointment Politely Finally, it’s a matter of ironing out the details of when to meet again. And make sure there are no possible conflicts for this future date. Once that’s done you need to thank them for taking the time to talk, for understanding and rescheduling and then reconfirm when your future appointment is. Something like, “Mary, thanks so much for taking my call. I really appreciate your understanding about this cancellation. I’m looking forward to seeing you on Friday, the 22nd at 3:00. I’ll see you here at my office. Thanks again, Mary. Good bye.” Schedules are full and there’s bound to be a conflict here and there. When you do need to cancel an appointment with another human being, keeping in mind that you are affecting their schedule and being conscious of that will make cancelling easier on them and on you. Reading B A Professional Way to Reschedule a Job Interview How you go about doing rescheduling a job interview reflects on your professionalism and ability to handle conflict and stressful situations. You can talk yourself out of a job if you try to reschedule inappropriately. This is as bad as if you did not show up for the interview without calling. Employers are more likely to sympathize1 with your need to reschedule if you approach them as a professional. Dramatization and overblown excuses are not the best ways to relate your problem to interviewers. Calm and polite requests to reschedule an interview are the way to go. Reading C A Professional Way to Reschedule a Job Interview 1． Call the employer as soon as you discover the time conflict. Even if you call after your interview was to begin and you can39。m not at time B. I39。m afraid she39。s agendas are overpowering yours. Reading A How to Schedule Appointments Efficiently Tips Warnings Be realistic about travel time to offsite meetings. Many a schedule has been sabotaged because it didn39。s office answering the phones. II. Reschedule an appointment. Act out the roleplay according to the following situation. Exercises Student A: Juliet Student B: David Juliet has phoned David to tell him that something has happened so she can’t meet him on Monday afternoon. They try to rearrange the appointment, but David is busy on Tuesday and Wednesday. David arranges the meeting time on Thursday so he can meet Juliet at 9:00. Juliet asks David to call her if anybody cancels his meeting on Tuesday. III. Write an Exercises You have made an appointment with Lisa Scott, Finance Executive of Apple Software Limited, to meet her on December 20, at 10:30 . at her office. But you’ve just learned that your friend had a car accident and you need to go the hospital. Write an to Lisa to cancel your appointment with her. Part of the has been done for you. III. Write an Exercises Dear Lisa, I am sorry to cancel my appointment on December 20, at 10:30 . at your corporate office as I am going out of station for personal ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ I decided to go to the hospital this very morning, so I39。 Words Expressions allot VT If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share. 分配 例： The seats are allotted to the candidates who have won the most votes. 這些席位被分配給了贏得了最多選票的候選人。 Words Expressions equate VT/ VI If you equate one thing with another, or if you say that one thing equates wit