E-mail to your line manager · B1 · formal

Reducing your workload

You work full time in a care home in your Gemeinde. From the new year you would like to reduce to 80 % because you want to attend a German course on Friday mornings. Your manager is Herr Brunner.

Write Herr Brunner an e-mail.

Length: 100-140 words

These must appear

• Your request, clearly in the first paragraph
• From when and to what percentage
• The reason
• A suggestion for how the work is still covered
• A request for a meeting
• Greeting and formal sign-off