A morning briefing

Listen to a morning briefing to practise and improve your listening skills.

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

Preparation

Transcript

Hi, everyone. I know you're all busy so I'll keep this briefing quick. I have some important information about a change in the management team. As you already know, our head of department, James Watson, is leaving his position at the end of this week. His replacement is starting at the end of the next month. In the meantime, we'll continue with our projects as usual.

I have two more quick points. Firstly, there will be some improvements made to the staff car park next month for a few weeks. It will be closed during that time.

Don't worry, we've found a solution. We can use the local church car park until our own one is ready. If you arrive before 8.30 a.m., please use our small car park on Brown Street, and if you arrive after that, you should go directly to the church car park. It's only a five-minute walk away. But they need it in the evenings, so you have to leave before 6 p.m. Sorry about that – I know how much you all love working late!

The other thing I wanted to tell you about is that the canteen has now introduced a cashless payment system. So, you can't use cash for payments any more. You can pay directly with your smartphone or you can pay using your company ID card. The total amount put on your company ID card comes off your salary at the end of each month.

OK. That's it? Are there any questions?

Task 1

TrueOrFalse_MjMyNDM=.xml

Task 2

Grouping_MjMyNDQ=.xml

Discussion

Who do you have to give information and instructions to? What about?

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Language level

A2 Pre-intermediate

In my work, I often give information and give instruction for my co-work to work have a good peformance. Besides, somtimes my work is training new employees so I'll give information and instruction for them that help they can situable with our team.

Now my job is a programmer. Recently, there are some newbie that joined my team. As a long-time employee of the company, so I have to give information and instructions to they can work smoothly in the start time, such as the rules of team, the process or flow of work, the solution suggestion when they have difficulty at a task.

At my work, I'm use to give information and instructions to my junior cowork. He needs some information to do his job and some instructions to improve his technique

Hi, I give information to my juniors and tell them how to work, how to live, always be positive. I'm a student. When I do job then I give instructions to my juniors.

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I used to get information from my workmate. I've heard them and I've exchanged my opinion about that

I usually give the information and instructions to my younger brother about eating more quickly

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Well, last Friday is last day I work for Titan company. Before leaving, I must to collect all information that I know and transfer for my coworkers. And also I give the instructions for them to use and understand the document and guide to work with what I experienced.

I work as Social Event Organizer. I'm not the owner of the company but I'm a sort of boss. My job consists in make sure the social event ( e.g. weeding, birthday, anniversary etc.) has everything it needs to take place, such as audio, lights, furniture and stuff like that. So yes, when i work i have to give instructions to many people, like the audio staff, the waiters, the chefs etc. And the briefing in this listening exercise is pretty similar to the one, my work team and I have, before each event we are going to work in. My boss usually gives me general instructions and then I communicate them to my team in the briefing.