When we return to the office, I know I have to try to make some headway with my report. Unfortunately, as soon as I sit down in front of my computer, it starts acting up. First, my computer screen freezes and I have to boot it up again. Then, when I...
Spreadsheet programs often are used to calculate, or figure, out how much a company is making, for example. The most popular program currently in the U.S. is Microsoft Excel; that's the most popular spreadsheet program. The computer tech starts doing...
The computer sometimes stops working for no reason, but the computer tech always makes me feel guilty, as if I had done something to break the computer. When the computer tech arrives, she sits down at my computer, meaning that she sits on a chair in...
A keyboard is a rectangular piece of equipment that works with a computer, it has all of the letters or symbols for whatever language that we are using, so we can put information into the computer by typing. In the story, my mouse and keyboard go hay...
To boot something up means, in this case, to turn on the computer. In the morning, the first thing I do is to boot my computer up and it usually takes two or three minutes before it's ready for me to use. But because my computer is acting up, I do wh...
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....
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...
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...
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),...
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...
