LESSON 48: HOW TO THANK PEOPLE FOR HOSPITALITY, COOPERATION, OR HELP?
--怎样感谢对方的款待, 合作, 或帮助?


CONTENTS

I. USEFUL EXPRESSIONS 常用语

II. SAMPLE 范文

III. TIPS 掌握写作要领

IV. EXERCISE: WORDS, PHRASES AND SENTENCE PATTERNS 精通常用词组和句型

V. UPGRADING YOUR ENGLISH 英语升级

VI. GOODIES & GIFTS 实用小礼物

I. USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
常用语

1. How to start your letter?

I am writing to thank you for your hospitality during my recent trip to Boston.

This is just a short note to thank you for a very pleasant evening while I was in Boston.

I wish to thank you for giving me the opportunity to visit your plant and have interesting discussions with you and your staff.

On behalf of NCL Association I wishes to thank you for your inspiring speech at our Annual Conference.

Please excuse my delay in thanking you for the interesting visit to your new plant.

I would like to thank you for the enjoyable evening that I spent at your house.

2. How to emphasize the things that you are particularly grateful for?

I very much appreciate your thoughtfulness.

I especially enjoyed the meeting with you and Vice President Stern and appreciate the time given to me on such short notice.

You were more than considerate to rearrange your schedule on such short notice and to spend the whole day with me.

Your suggestion deserves very careful consideration and we are grateful that you shared your expertise with us.

We were all deeply impressed by the fascinating presentation of your biotech specialist Mr. Robert Lee.

3. How to end your letter?

And thanks again for a most pleasant trip.

I shall remember your kindness for a long time.

Please extend my thanks, on behalf of all the attendees, to each of your employees.

Please give my best to Betty, and thanks again to both of you for a most pleasant weekend.

I hope very much to have the opportunity of returning your hospitality if you should visit our city.

If I can offer you any similar service in the future, please contact me.

If there is a time when you need my help, please let me know. I would like to repay the favor.



II. SAMPLE
范文

1. Thank you for hospitality

2. Thank you for help

3. Thank you for attending the meeting

4. Thank you for a pleasant evening

5. Thank you for the gift


1. Thank you for hospitality

Dear ___________:

Please thank everyone at your Department of Public Relations for the hospitality they extended to our teachers and administrators last Friday.

During our visit to your company, we were all impressed by the improvements you have made in the design of language lab systems and the expertise and enthusiasm of your engineers. They especially praised your main speaker, Mr. Brooks, who demonstrated and explained the principles behind the design of the new system. The visit was indeed very rewarding. We all look forward to a long and cooperative relationship.

Yours sincerely,



___________[name]
___________[title]


2. Thank you for help

Dear ____________:

Thank you very much for giving so much help to our Sales Manager Adam Francis while he was in San Francisco.

Mr. Francis must have already written to you expressing his gratitude, but I would like to thank you on behalf of the whole company. The information you provided and the contacts you helped him to establish are most useful to our export efforts in the Bay area. We wish to have more help from you in the future.

If I can offer you any similar service, please feel free to contact me.

Yours sincerely,



_____________[name]
_____________[title]


3. Thank you for attending the meeting

Dear ___________:

Thank you for attending our meeting last Friday and for sharing your suggestions and experience with us. As beginners in telecommunication business, our group found your suggestions and recommendations extremely helpful.

We hope we can return the favor some time in the future. Just give us a call when we can assist in any way.

Yours sincerely,



____________[name]
____________[title]


4. Thank you for a pleasant evening

Dear ____________:

This is just a short note to thank you for a very pleasant evening while I was in San Jose. The food was excellent and it was most enjoyable to see so many old friends.

Please give me a call the next time you come to Denver. Perhaps we can meet again for lunch or dinner.

Sincerely yours,



___________[name]
___________[title]


5. Thank you for the gift

Dear ____________:

Thanks so much for the beautiful figurines of the Gods of Good Fortune. As a great admirer of folk arts, I very much appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Please give me a call whenever you come to the States and I hope to meet you again in the near future.

Best wishes,



_____________[name]
_____________[title]



III. TIPS
掌握写作要领

1. Send your "Thank you" letter right after the visit.
2. Emphasize the things that you are particularly grateful for.
3. Ask the recipient to pass your thanks to other people in his organization who offered their services during your visit.
4. Express your hope that you will be able to repay their hospitality in the future.


IV. EXERCISE: WORDS, PHRASES AND SENTENCE PATTERNS
精通常用词组和句型

Turn each group of words and phrases into a complete sentence. Add capitalization and punctuation when necessary:


1. gave me/ around San Francisco/ thank you/ seeing it on my own/ by/ for showing me/ which/ a view of the city/ I would never have gotten/


2. making/ for/ my first business trip to the Bay area/ thank you and Betty/ a pleasant one/ I want to/


3. my delay/ excuse/ in thanking you/ for/ with you and your staff/ please/ on June 16 and 17/ the interesting visit/


4. we are working/ we are/ but/ on the proposed contract/ a little behind schedule/ and expect/ by the end of this week/ I know/ to have it ready/


5. a very useful one/ and your colleagues/ and I enjoyed/ proved to be/ all the interesting discussions/ the trip/ I had with you/


6. face to face/ of each other's needs/ and I think/ to meet one's business partners/ a better understanding/ it is always very useful/ we now have/


7. you act/ very careful consideration/ as our distributor/ that/ in California/ your suggestion/ certainly deserves/


8. after/ I have discussed/ that I will/ your proposal/ I promise/ with my partner/ contact you again/




V. UPGRADING YOUR ENGLISH
英语升级


Click on a choice that best explains the highlighted word or phrase in the sentence:

  1. The music retailer will sell a small part of its music catalog over the Internet using a controversial technology that contains no protection against bootlegging copies.
    (A) copies smuggled to foreign countries
    (B) copies produced and sold unlawfully
    (C) copies of low quality
    (D) copies sold at extremely low prices

  2. The Commerce Department is going to announce government plans to track retail activity on the Internet.
    (A) regulate and control
    (B) search and pursue
    (C) analyze and assess
    (D) encourage and stimulate

  3. Reflecting the recent explosion in Internet-company stock trading, several brokerages have enacted restrictions starting this week to help protect people from unexpected losses on Internet stocks.
    (A) sent to the government for approval
    (B) stopped suddenly
    (C) suddenly sped up
    (D) officially decided to implement

  4. A small research and development firm claims that the software giant's products infringe its U.S. patent for key technology that makes Web "plug-ins" possible.
    (A) violate
    (B) steal
    (C) endanger
    (D) discredit

  5. Some industry executives and analysts euphorically pronounced the cyclical nature of the country's economy a thing of the past.
    (A) sadly
    (B) excitedly
    (C) optimistically
    (D) hastily

  6. The five music groups will unveil proposals today to launch the first fully fledged digital music distribution system.
    (A) financially fully supported
    (B) very complicated in structure
    (C) fully protected
    (D) fully developed

  7. The long-distance phone company has struck a deal to offer telephone service over cable systems in 33 states, greatly escalating its move into local service.
    (A) endangering
    (B) consolidating
    (C) stepping up
    (D) prohibiting

  8. Scientists have found a way to replicate famous sculptures with a new degree of precision, capturing a statue from all angles with all its surface details down to the most minute chisel marks.
    (A) perform a complete repair
    (B) make an exact copy
    (C) produce a photograph
    (D) examine thoroughly

  9. Using a combination of laser and radar systems, researchers can build a three-dimensional map of a burn and the surrounding tissue to assess the damage and help guide doctors for skin grafts and treatment.
    (A) estimate
    (B) pinpoint
    (C) find out
    (D) display

  10. Congress will tackle some of the most important issues of the Information Age this session.
    (A) inspect
    (B) announce
    (C) try to avoid
    (D) deal with

  11. Even though more than 10 percent of the population are online, the vast majority do not understand the dynamics of the Internet.
    (A) changeableness
    (B) unstable condition
    (C) explosive nature
    (D) power to cause changes

  12. Computer-related eyestrain is gaining new attention as a high-tech affliction undermining employee health and productivity.
    (A) quickly destroying
    (B) gradually weakening
    (C) covering the problem of
    (D) neglecting

  13. U.S. securities regulators were concerned about the growing use of the Internet to commit fraud.
    (A) seduction
    (B) plagiarism
    (C) default
    (D) cheat

  14. Employees in this company will receive record annual bonuses next month that will reach as high as 25 percent of a worker's annual salary.
    (A) additional pay
    (B) awards for good performance
    (C) profits
    (D) revenue

  15. If you've always wanted to broadcast your opinions to the world, there's now a way, courtesy of new technology.
    (A) popular because of new technology
    (B) made easy by new technology
    (C) made possible by new technology
    (D) without the need for new technology




VI. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
GOODIES & GIFTS （实惠小礼物）

A Ready-Made Letter for You

Thank you for speaking at the seminar

Dear ___________:

The _________ Business Association wishes to thank you for your informative and inspiring speech at our ___________ Seminar. You raised a lot of interesting questions that we will discuss at our next regular meeting.

We will let you know the agenda for our next seminar, which is scheduled to be held in _________[month]. We hope you will come again to speak to our audience.

Yours sincerely,



_____________[name]
_____________[title]