A request from your boss

Listen to requests from a manager to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Transcript

Susanne: Hi, Mario. Can you help me prepare some things for the next month?

Mario: OK, sure. What can I help you with?

Susanne: I need to visit the customer in Germany. It's important.

Mario: What can I do to help?

Susanne: Can you send an email to the customer? Ask them when I can visit them next week. Please do this first. It's a priority and very urgent.

Mario: Right. I'll do it today.

Susanne: Thanks. This next task is also important. Can you invite everyone to the next team meeting?

Mario: Yes, I will.

Susanne: But first you need to book a meeting room. After that, please send everyone an email about it.

Mario: Yes, of course.

Susanne: And finally, can you write a short report about our new project? I have to give a presentation to our managers next month. Please do it when you have time – sometime in the next two or three weeks. It's not too urgent.

Mario: Sure, no problem. I can do it this week.

Susanne: There's no hurry. Take your time.

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Task 2

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Discussion

Do you sometimes help other people with their work? What do you do for them?

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I sometimes help other people with their work. Although, since I'm honest and kind, some people tend to use me to complete their work. I don't like it and I like to help other honest people like me who are serious to take a step further!

-Do I sometimes help other people with their work? Yes, I do, and I really like to help everyone not only with their work but also in other fields in general life. -I want to help other people to improve their knowledge, so I have to improve my knowledge first, make my brain like a library and then I will collect a perfect team that aimed to help everyone in this world, and in the future, I will be very thrilled to join in this website to help every need help.

Do I sometimes help other people with their work? Yes, I do. I often help other people with their work. I am learning English now. I try to every day. And I try to teach with other people, especially on this beautiful site. I read the comments of other users on the site and I wonder how I could help them. Sometimes I write some answers. But I am not good at English. My English isn't good enough for me to be a teacher. But I can get help from The LearnEnglish Team. That's incredible. Help for free. Thanks The LearnEnglish Team. CAN YOU CORRECT ME?

Hello chriswar,

Thanks for the comment. We read every comment on LearnEnglish and reply to as many as we can, but we don't correct users' posts. We have many thousands of users on the site and it's just not possible for our small team to offer a correction service like that.

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

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Hi, I was helping my friends in my work with everything I can do it to they be good,

I help my colleagues every day. I help them write memos using the formal language in Portuguese. Besides that, I help them to access our network system.

Can we use "can you help me to prepare..." instead of "can you help me prepare.."?

Hello raygupta87,

Yes, the verb 'help' can be followed by either a bare infinitive or an infinitive with 'to', so both forms are correct.