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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
