A1 · 4 minutes · Work

First day at the office

Anna meets her boss and co-workers at her new job, but everyone is busy. Listen for polite words and reasons.

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What you’ll practise

Understand short polite phrases on a first day at work.

Words to know

record: To save sound or pictures so people can hear or watch them later.
office: A room where a person works at a desk.
social: About people meeting and spending time together.

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 7: What Are You Doing?”, 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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