A2 · 4 minutes · Work

Office holiday closure

A short announcement about a day when the office is closed.

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What you’ll practise

Understand a simple workplace notice.

Words to know

public holiday: A day when most people do not go to work.
urgent: Very important and needing quick action.
out of hours: Outside normal working times.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

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out-of-hours above B2Look up

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.

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