Votre Message d'Absence En Anglais

8,923 views ・ 2015-06-21

Business English with Christina


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It’s summer, which means vacation is coming up soon.
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Finally!
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It also means that you need to think about setting your out-of-office email message.
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It’s easy to write a short,
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simple,
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and polite away message in English, you’ll see.
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I’m Christina and you’re watching Speak Better, Feel Great TV.
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The place to boost your English and boost your career.
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Today’s video is very practical
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and immediately actionable, because
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you’ll get an example of an away message that’s ready to use.
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Ya ready?
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Yes, a super short message like
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“I”m absent from July 13th to August 3rd”
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is understandable,
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but
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it’s not very friendly.
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It’s too direct,
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like you just couldn’t be bothered
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to make an effort to write a real away message.
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You know you can do better.
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First, we’ll see a basic structure that’s
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easy to follow
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and includes all of the information your correspondant needs.
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Then we’ll look an example that you can copy right from this video.
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Here we go!
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First,
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thank the person who’s writing to you.
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I know, it’s just an email,
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and it probably creates work for you,
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but remember we love politeness in English!
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Begin your email with:
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Second, say when you’ll be absent.
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A simple sentence like
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or
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That’s sufficient.
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You may want to say something about how much access to emails you’ll have.
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For better or for worse,
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a lot of Americans stay connected to work during their vacation,
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checking their emails on their iPhones, for example.
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And they might expect you to do so too.
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Make things clear by adding
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You can also say that you’ll respond when you return.
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And this one’s easy:
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Perhaps there’s someone the sender can contact while you’re absent.
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If this is the case, you can add
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Basically, include
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the contact information of your colleague
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at the end of that sentence.
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And to finish,
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makes a nice conclusion.
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Let’s put it all together
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and look at a classic away message that you can just take
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and use,
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and get out of the office more quickly and start your vacation:
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Short,
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simple,
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polite,
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and with all the key information.
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Now, it’s vacation time!
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Wait, wait, one more thing.
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Before you leave the office for your summer vacation,
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can I ask you to share this video with your colleague?
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Or heck, share the video with your entire department?
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They’re all going on vacation,
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they’ll all need an away email message.
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And they’ll love you
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just because you just saved them the trouble
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of writing an away message from nothing.
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Come on, share the love!
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Now have a great vacation!
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I’m Christina from Speak Better, Feel Great TV,
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see you next time!
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