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Using English at Work：16 Attending the Morning Meeting(2)
After I sat down, the manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda. A manager is a person who is in charge of, or responsible for, a department or a team at work. At a large company, for example, a salesperson begins working as a sales represen
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Using English at Work：17 Attending the Morning Meeting(3)
My manager is going over some bullet points. Bullet points are lines of text in a document where each line begins with a small circle; sometimes it's a diamond or an arrow. We call those bullets. The text usually isn't a complete sentence, but just a
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Using English at Work：18 Attending the Morning Meeting(4)
I'll have to talk to my wife about taking turns! At my meeting, we're taking turns giving a quick rundown. A rundown is a very short explanation of the most important points of something. If your boss doesn't have time to read a long report, she migh
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Using English at Work：19 Attending the Morning Meeting(5)
Athletic coaches give their teams pep talks before important games to help the players play better, to get more excited, more enthusiastic. My manager's pep talk is probably meant to help us feel that the work we are doing is very important for the c
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Using English at Work：20 Working at My Desk(1)
This is lesson four of ESLPod.com's Using English at Work. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development. In the third lesson of our course, we talked about vocabulary related to a morning meeting at the office. In th
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Using English at Work：21 Working at My Desk(2)
At home, if you are messy like me, you may need to clear off your dining room table - that is, move your newspapers, books, and other things so that you'll have room to eat your meal. I said, I clear off a few stacks of paper. A stack (stack) is a pi
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Using English at Work：22 Working at My Desk(3)
If your birthday is next week, you may remind your friends that your birthday is fast approaching. Depending on old you are, this is a good thing or a bad thing! Next, I open my filing cabinet. A filing cabinet, sometimes called a file cabinet, is a
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Using English at Work：23 Working at My Desk(4)
Next, I take out the paper clips, stapler, and Scotch tape I know I'll also need. A paper clip is a small piece of bent metal or plastic that holds pieces of paper together temporarily. When you remove the paper clip, the pages are no longer together
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Using English at Work：24 Taking a Break and Eating Lunch(1)
Welcome to ESLPod.com's Using English at Work lesson five. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development. In lesson four of this course, we learned vocabulary related to working at your desk. In this fifth lesson, I'm
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Using English at Work：25 Taking a Break and Eating Lunch(2)
In this break room, my coworkers, or colleagues, Diana and Van, are standing next to the water cooler talking about a show that was on television last night. A water cooler is a machine that keeps the water in a large container cold. Some water coole
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Using English at Work：26 Taking a Break and Eating Lunch(3)
To join someone means to do something that other people are doing. For example, you may say to your friend, I hear that you're going to see a movie tonight. Can I join you? You're asking if you can do the same thing that your friend is doing. Diana i
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Using English at Work：27 Taking a Break and Eating Lunch(4)
Many restaurants have lunch specials to get people to come to the restaurant during the week; however on the weekends (on Saturdays and Sundays) there usually are not any lunch specials. A lunch special often has a salad, an entree (or main course),
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Using English at Work：28 Taking a Break and Eating Lunch(5)
We forgot to ask for separate checks. Separate checks are when each person at a table gets his or her own bill, so that each person pays only for what that person ate directly to the server. Asking for separate checks is sometimes a good idea when ma
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Using English at Work：29 Having Computer Problems(1)
You're listening to lessen six of ESLPod.com's Using English at Work. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development. In the fifth lesson of Using English at Work, we learned vocabulary and phrases related to taking a
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Using English at Work：30 Having Computer Problems(2)
Of course I never abuse my computer, but it's no use telling her.At least my computer is fixed and I can keep working. When the story begins, we're returning to the office after lunch and I know that I have to try to make some headway with my report.
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