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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Yes, I often help other people in my work with some information of different kind of programs that they can not manage.

I usually help my friends and family to calculate their taxes. I help my sister to write business letters, and work in Excell.

I often help my friends and junior in college by correcting their thesis. At first, I do these things when my lecture gives me the opportunity, eventually, it become a habit and I really like that.

Hello guy, I have a doubt. In the first paragraph, where says ...”Can you help me prepare some...”. Should be “Can you help me to prepare some...”?

Hi Israfael,

Actually, both structures are correct after the verb help - with or without the preposition to. The meaning is the same!

Best wishes,

Jonathan

The LearnEnglish Team

I think we all should help others to our work . Without helping mind, we can't make our job well done. A man can't know everything ,he must take help from others. If someone don't help others,then he never gets any type of help from others.So,we have to help others to make mankind well future.

Yes I do help others with their work. When I feel that someone is facing problems with their I always ask them, how can I help or do you need some help either I can do or not. It's not about you can do or not it is about humanity sometime you can't help but your words and your helping nature could make someone feel better and happy.

Yes. I usually help to another people with their work if i can and It make me good happy

Yes, i sometime help my friends do their homeworks

Hello all, usually I do the best to help other people to complete tasks, but some of them don't respect others when not have time to help and they are needing help as soon as possible.