B2 · 5 minutes · Work

Cutting the budget

Two managers discuss how to save money next year.

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What you’ll practise

Understand suggestions and objections in a business discussion.

Words to know

budget: A plan for how much money will be spent.
postpone: To move an event to a later time.
upgrade: A newer, better version of something.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B2 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

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

Original script; synthetic narration with two voices.

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