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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Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

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

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A1 Elementary

Hello Sean,

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Peter

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It is very good question that I'd like to answer it. Actually yes, I do sometimes help other people with their work specially when they have request me. I would like to have divided the requests 3 main categories are as follow: 1- request comes from family 2- request comes from work and colleagues 3- request comes from my friends' side It will be interesting to know, usually I do the first, which one is most important or those are priority or shall doing the first.

I tend to help as I can, that because we are working to get the same aim and also due to perhaps one day I could need their help to solve anything

I help to my colleagues if I have the time as I take some tasks of their duties to finish on time.

Yes i do, i helped to my dougther with her homework, in ocations to my friend with their computer´s problems.

Do you sometimes help other people with their work? What do you do for them? Yes, I do. I usually help them with some tasks that they don't understand.

Yes I do, always I give advice to my colleagues ,

that is awesome, I wish everyone being like you

I don't help other people with their work.

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