A1 · 4 minutes · Work

Are you busy?

After a difficult first day, Anna wants to say sorry to her co-workers. Listen for polite words.

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What you’ll practise

Understand polite requests and apologies at work.

Words to know

busy: Having a lot to do; not free.
studio: A room where people record radio or TV shows.
come by: To visit for a short time.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A1 or below.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 8: Are You Busy?”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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Five lines selected and cut into sentence clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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