Welcome to lesson three of ESLPod.com's Using English at Work. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development. In the second lesson of Using English at Work, we learned vocabulary for checking mail, email, and voicemai...
I delete the other message - I get rid of the other message. We usually delete drafts once we've finished the final document, for example. In this case, I'm deleting the second voicemail message, getting rid of it because I won't need to listen to it...
We used to have what we called answering machines, which had cassette tapes to record messages, but most companies today are computerized and they use something that we call voicemail. At my house, however, we still have one of the old answering mach...
Trash is another word for garbage, or something that you throw away, that you don't want. So your trash folder is where the email program may put trash - things you don't want. Many email programs have a separate spam folder, where all the spam messa...
Another word for junk mail when we're talking about email is spam. At my house, most of the junk mail I get are advertisements that I don't want, so I throw them away without even reading them. At the office, I spend a few minutes sorting through the...
I use, in the United States, the U.S. Postal Service; I put a stamp on it, I put it in the mailbox, and it is delivered to the other company. If I want to send something to someone who works for my company - my bank, but in another office, perhaps in...
In an email program, the inbox is usually the main screen. On your desk, it's probably a small box that other people put papers into. I check my inboxes, meaning that I look to see if there is anything inside them. First, I go to the mailroom. A mail...
Welcome to lesson two of ESLPod.com's Using English at Work. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development. In the first lesson of Using English at Work, we learned vocabulary about arriving at work, or getting to the...
My coworker made fun of me by asking whether he could get me some coffee and asking when I was leaving, because those are the types of things that you would ask a regular visitor; to be nice, you may offer to get them some coffee. I wasn't angry, tho...
Where I work, the employees (or the people who work at the company) are supposed to show their badges at all times. The phrase at all times means always or all the time. For example, parents want to know where their children are at all times. At my o...