B1 · 5 minutes · Work

Asking for a day off

An employee asks his manager for permission to miss a day of work.

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What you’ll practise

Understand a polite request at work.

Words to know

day off: A day when you do not go to work.
cover: Here, to do someone’s work while they are away.
shift: A fixed period of work.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration with two voices.

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