Company Description

What company do you work for?

Which company are you with?

Who do you represent?

I work for ABC Company.

I’m with ABC.

I represent (the) XYZ (company).

What is the name of your company?

Where are you located?

The name of our company is . . . .

Our company is located in . . . .

Our headquarters is in . . .

What (type of business) do you do?

What business are you in?

We are in the computer business.

We’re in computers

We sell . . .

We produce . . .

We manufacture . . .

Our major products are . . .

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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,

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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.

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Offering

1. Informal

Cigarette?

Would you like some coffee?

How about a glass of water?

Here. Have a/some . . .

Would you like one of these?

Can I get you something?

What can I get you something to drink?
  No thank you

      Yes, please.

      Sure. Thanks.

      Okay. Thanks.

      I really shouldn’t.

      No. Thanks anyway.

      Juice would be fine.

2. Formal

Would you care for some . . .

Would you like to try . . .

Let me offer you . . .

Let me get you a/some . .

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Invitations

1. 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 . . ..

2. 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 . . .

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Explaining

1. Can you explain . . .
2. Can you tell me why . . .
3. Why . . .
4. What happened . . .
5. Well, . . .
6. Let me explain.
7. Let me tell you why . . .
8. Here’s what happened:
9. There’s a (good) reason for this:
10. The reason is . . .
11. I’m sorry. I can’t tell you that (right now).
12. Can I get back to you on that?
13. I’ll explain (a little) later.
14. We’ll come to that later.
15. We’ll get to that in a few minutes.
16. Can we save that until later?

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Asking for Information

1. Information about company

What does your company do?
What is your specialty?
What do you specialize in?
What is your main line of business?
We produce marketing materials.
We specialize in art and design.
What are your major products?
What services do you provide?
We produce office machines.
We design software.
We provide technical support.

2. Information about products

Could you give me some (more) information on this?

What can you tell me about this (product)?
Tell me about this one/model.

This is one of our top brands.
It’s our best selling refrigerator.
This one is the best in its class.
We’re really pleased with its performance.
It’s an excellent computer.
I highly recommend this one.
This model comes with several features.
This particular one has two components.

3. Information about Price

What are you asking for this?
What does this sell for?

How much is it?
How much does it run?

This (one) sells for $5900.
This one goes for $2900.

This one is priced at $9695.

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Apologizing

Apologizing

1. I’m sorry. I made a mistake.

2. Please accept my apologies.

3. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to . . .

4. (I’m) sorry. I didn’t realize that . . . .

Prefacing bad news

1. I’m sorry (I have) to tell you this, but . . .

2. I hate to tell you this, but . . .

3. I don’t know how to tell you this, but . . .

4. I have some bad news.

(Formal) written apologies

1. We regret to inform you that . . .

2. Regretfully, . . .

3. Unfortunately, . . .

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Asking for Help

Asking:

1. Could you . . . . (for me) ?

2. Would you please . . . ?

3. Would you mind V+ing . . . .?

4. Could you possibly . . . ?

5. Do you have a minute?

6. Can you spare a few minutes?

7. Could you do me a favor?

8. Could I ask you a favor?

9. Can I ask you to . . . ?

10. I need some help (if you have time).

11. (If you’re not busy) I could use your help.

Answering:

1. Okay, no problem.

2. Sure, I’d be glad to.

3. Sorry, I’m (kind of) busy now.

4. I’m sorry. I don’t have time right now.

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