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

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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Hello khmax,

One thing you could do is listen to the pronunciation of the word 'priority' in the dictionary. If you follow the link, you can hear common British English and American English pronunciations of this word, and if you check in other dictionaries you can hear more. 

Hope this helps!

All the best,

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by MammadovAnar on Sun, 02/08/2020 - 10:43

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Yes. I was helping my group friends prepare a PowerPoint presentation at the university. I was teaching to prepare beautiful presentations.
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Submitted by Peter21 on Sun, 02/08/2020 - 03:15

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Hello everyone!! My name's Pedro and I from Argentina (just in case, that is a country in South America). As soon as the question, I'm student and I usually help to my classmates to do their homeworks so maybe I can say that I help other people. What do you think about it? Regards!

Submitted by Maria19 on Sun, 26/07/2020 - 16:35

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Yes, when I worked an administration office, I'm was help new office workers learn and recognize the job.

Submitted by Phan Bao Dung on Sat, 25/07/2020 - 18:19

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I work as a Laboratory technician in a pharmaceutical company so I usually help my colleagues to prepare some chemical liquids, types of equipment for testing pharmaceutical samples.
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Submitted by mohamed_203 on Fri, 24/07/2020 - 13:20

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i cant not explain because i'm beginner.
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