Explaining Responsibilities

In life we have responsibilities things that we need to take care of.

If you do all of your responsibilities very well then people may say that you’re very responsible.

That’s the kind of person you are.

You’re a responsible person.

OK.

But what phrases or words can we use to explain our responsibilities to others.

Well there are a couple that are very common and I want to go through those because when you’re talking about your routine or when you’re describing to others what you do or maybe you’re telling others what they need to do you may need to use these phrases.

OK.

So first one I’m in charge of.

And then we could say either a noun or an action and we can use ISG after it.

So we could say I’m in charge of interviews about that son and I eat us interviews in the H R department H.R.

stands for by the way human resources are.

Yes human resources.

I’m responsible for interviews in human resources or I’m in charge of interviews in the human resources or H.R.

department.

OK.

You could also though say I’m in charge of making sure that we deliver everything on time.

Whatever you’re doing you can say making sure I’m in charge of making sure that something happens.

Whatever it is.

So it’s a very useful phrase to explain the thing that you need to do.

It’s your responsibility.

You’re in charge of doing.

I Angie that thing.

But we could also say need I’m sure you probably know this one but I need to make sure.

So it’s sort of like making sure same thing.

I need to make sure I need to make sure that we follow all the regulations.

Regulations are like rules regulations are like sometimes laws whatever I need to make sure it’s the same as saying I’m in charge of making sure you can use either one it doesn’t really matter.

I need to make sure that we follow all the regulations.

I’m in charge of making sure we follow all the regulations when problems happen.

If you’re responsible for the action that needs to be taken when that problem happens we can go back to that word that we mentioned before whenever.

Again that means every time so we could say whenever there are delays delays means something is not on time something is a little a little late.

Whenever there are delays it’s my fault.

It’s that’s an S.

Can you imagine.

That’s an s it’s my job it’s my job to maybe push the team push the team to hit the deadline.

L I N E hit the deadline.

OK so here’s a team.

This team has to do some work.

Maybe the team is making a video.

OK.

And there are delays because maybe one person is sick.

So the whole team is a little bit late.

OK.

Whenever there are delays whenever that thing happens for whatever reason whose job is it to deal with this problem.

It’s my job it’s my job I’m responsible for it I’m responsible for making sure we hit the deadline.

I need to make sure we hit the deadline.

It’s my job to push the team to hit the deadline or we could say to make the deadline.

So this is the one that you would use when you want to explain what you’re responsible for whenever X happens.

Whatever it is when we’re talking about our responsibilities we also need to talk about consequences consequences.

What happens if something bad happens.

What happens maybe if something good happens.

These are consequences the result of something else.

OK.

So let’s say if I don’t finish don’t finish my part.

Maybe everybody has a part let’s say it’s this video project we’re trying to make a video for advertising or whatever.

If I don’t finish my part the rest of the team maybe can’t go home or the rest of the team has to work overtime or the rest of the team will have to do my work for me whatever it is we’re talking about what happens if this thing happens.

And it could be a good thing or a bad thing.

OK.

Whenever we get an award the whole team gets to go up on stage not just me not just the leader.

So consequent These are the results and we can use this type of sentence this expression to explain the consequences of a specific thing that happens if I don’t finish my part my job my responsibility.

Everybody needs to work overtime and then we have to pay everybody overtime and maybe we can’t afford that.

Can’t afford something means you don’t have enough money to pay for it or you’re just not able to pay for it.

Maybe it’s too much for you.

We could have used that in the last lesson when we were talking about the apartment.

I can’t afford one thousand five hundred I can’t afford it.

It’s out of my price range.

It’s over my budget.

OK so let’s now look at a real life example of a routine and how we can put all of these things together in a really natural way.