Speaking: Using Responsible for…to… Listening: Watch the 3 video and do the tasks. Reading

Career responsibility (2 hours)
Vocabulary: responsibility, responsible, responsible to, responsible for, manager, recruitment, consequences, training, marketing.
Speaking: Using Responsible for…to…
Listening: Watch the 3 video and do the tasks.
Reading: Career responsibility is one of the leading stages of promotion


Vocabulary work: responsibility, responsible , responsible to, responsible for
Responsible + infinitive, or + for ,to….
The preposition that goes with “responsible”, that connects it to its complement, is “for”.
“For” is followed by a noun, a noun phrase, or the gerund form of the verb.
_You are Responsible for Making sure mail gets to you.
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If “responsible” is followed by “to” to the “to” is a preposition, and its object refers to the person or persons owed the responsibility

_When asked to define responsible government, most people intuitively think that it means that government is responsible to the people it governs.
Use for when you are naming a task that a person or group has to carry out.

1. 
   We are responsible for the program
   
2. 
   Marian is responsible for overseeing the project.
   
3. 
   Greg was responsible for that.
   

Use to when you are naming the person or group of people to whom you have a duty

1. 
   The company president is responsible to the Board of Director.
   
2. 
   We are responsible to our clients
   

Both to and for may be used together:

3. 
   We are responsible to the client for the accuracy of the report.
   

Watch the video 1: “Rebecca Talking about responsibility” and make up your own sentences with Responsible for and to.