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A request from your boss

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.

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

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

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Hi. It's true but please do you give advice how I improve speaking skills.

Hello Rao786,

The best thing to do is of course practise speaking with other people. Even if they are not native speakers, it's still useful.

I'd also encourage you to choose sentences from this page that you think would be useful in your speaking, either because they are difficult to pronounce or because they could be useful in different conversations. For example, 'Right. I'll do it today.'

Practise saying that phrase over and over again until it's easy to say. Check your pronunciation with the recording. Then do the same thing with the other phrases or sentences you've chosen. Do this a couple of times a day for several days, until you can remember and say them all confidently.

Write them down in a notebook and then choose another set of sentences from another listening and follow the same procedure. Gradually, you will build up your speaking fluency and vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation and listening.

Good luck and let us know if that works for you!

All the best,

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by Theint Theint Phyo on Sun, 27/12/2020 - 07:03

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I help other people with their job.I doing monthy reports,giving advice for their job and leading the meeting if they have not enough time to do this.

Submitted by Munia Das on Sat, 26/12/2020 - 09:27

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Yes, i always try to help people. I help my colleagues whenever they ask to help them

Submitted by Admire on Fri, 25/12/2020 - 09:45

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I rarely help everyone help people with their work because I also have my own work. But sometime I help them whenever they get busy

Submitted by Suraj paliwal on Fri, 25/12/2020 - 03:09

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Yes, I help others people. I like to help them. In this time, I am a university student and help classmates a lot as if any friends needs help to me then I always ready to help. I am also a social worker. In India, I help tourist people to find way and other ways. I and my friends make a team to held needy persons.

Submitted by bluesea101 on Thu, 24/12/2020 - 15:17

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I am a fresh man here. What means that "give a presentation"?

Hello bluesea101,

A 'presentation' is a time when you explain something. We usually 'give' or 'make' a presentation (see the second explanation in the link).

All the best,

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

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