A morning briefing

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?

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Submitted by Salg on Sat, 14/09/2024 - 10:32

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

Everyday me and my best frind go out walking together and talking about different things like what happened today in our jobs and new events around and interesting news if any.. so i have to give instructions to him everytime before meeting about where we should meet and where we will go and what the major thing we will talk about to look if it worthy or not to go out and meet for.  

Submitted by hatice2 on Thu, 29/08/2024 - 13:50

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What meetings do you have to go to? How do you arrange them

Everyday ı have a meeting with my friend Tuba at 7 o clock. We read together and sometimes discuss about a topic But usually we study . We open the camera and off the microphone and we study. I love doing this. When I cant study or focus on I call her and send her a meeeting invite and we do. But sometimes ı cant get up like today. Actually ı get up early much then ı study myself a bit but then ı feel the sleep and went to bed again So we didnt meet today but we'll meet at 9 p.m. Everyday we couldunt meeting in the morning we postpone it to a later time

Submitted by hatice2 on Thu, 29/08/2024 - 12:24

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Is it easy to get lost in your town? Have you ever given directions to a visitor?

No it isnt easy. Becuse I live in small town not big. So it is diffucult to lost . But once I lost here thats funny raly. I was in the bus and I notice the driver uses roads different so ı go out in the bus and I lost. Then I called my dad to bring me home . And yes ı gived instractions for visitor many time

Submitted by hatice2 on Thu, 29/08/2024 - 11:38

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

I was having to give instrucactions to my students when I was teaching. And I have to give insturactions to my nephews but they dont listen to me

Submitted by hatice2 on Thu, 29/08/2024 - 11:35

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

I was had to give insturactions to may students when 

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Submitted by bero414 on Tue, 27/08/2024 - 07:16

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Hi,

I have to give information and instructions to my children about their life, religion, and education to be successful in their life.
 

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Submitted by zino on Fri, 09/08/2024 - 18:58

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As a teacher 🏢 , I give information and instructions to my students🎓 about discipline, homework 📖, and reading books📚.

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Submitted by sandraLXR on Tue, 06/08/2024 - 21:55

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Thanks for the lesson!

Submitted by Mr.Ouadia Azzioune on Sun, 04/08/2024 - 00:30

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I only give information and instructions to my self .

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Submitted by afredo_954 on Mon, 08/07/2024 - 01:41

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I work in an IT department and I attend remote failures and reports, so I need to give instructions to customers about IT support like how to view and change its computer's IP address or connect a network cable between devices, and this can be a little difficult because, many time, these are persons who don't have any experience with technology, so I have to be so specific with the instructions I give.