B1Work12 min
Planning a team day
Three colleagues discuss several ideas for a day out with their team and agree who will do what.
Before you listen
You are going to hear three colleagues, Aiko, Kofi and Sofia, at a short meeting. Their company has given them some money to organise a day out for their team. As you listen, notice each idea they discuss and the reasons they give for and against it.
- budgetnoun
- the amount of money you can spend on somethingOur budget for the trip is quite small.
- splitverb
- to divide people or things into smaller groups or partsThe teacher split the class into three groups.
- cluenoun
- a piece of information that helps you solve a puzzleWe found the last clue behind a picture.
- suitverb
- to be convenient or right for someoneDoes Monday suit you, or is Tuesday better?
- bookverb
- to arrange to have a room, table or ticket at a later timeI've booked a table for six people.
Listen · 1:24
Ideas for the team day
Show the transcript (try the questions first)
Aiko: Right, we need to decide on the team day before Friday. There are eighteen of us, and the budget is thirty pounds per person. Kofi, you had an idea?
Kofi: I did. What about a boat trip on the river? There's a company near the station that does two-hour tours.
Sofia: It sounds lovely, but I checked their prices last year. It's about forty-five pounds each, so it's well over our budget.
Kofi: Oh, that's a shame. What about a cooking class instead? We could all make lunch together.
Aiko: That could work, but the kitchen only takes twelve people, so we'd have to split the group. And the whole point is to do something together.
Sofia: How about the puzzle rooms in the old library building? Teams of six have an hour to solve a series of clues. It's twenty pounds each, so there'd still be money left for lunch.
Kofi: Oh, I've done one of those! It was brilliant, and it gets people talking to colleagues they don't normally work with.
Aiko: Great. So, puzzle rooms in the morning and lunch afterwards. Which day suits people better, Thursday the twentieth or Friday the twenty-first?
Sofia: Thursday, I think. Quite a few people leave early on Fridays.
Aiko: Thursday it is, then. Sofia, could you book the rooms? Kofi, can you send round a short form asking what people would like for lunch? I'll tell our manager this afternoon.
Kofi: No problem. I'll send it out today.
Exercise 1 of 2
Understand the meeting
Listen to the meeting. Choose the best answer.
Exercise 2 of 2
Numbers and details
Listen again and type the missing word or number. You can write numbers as words or digits.
There are people in the team.
The budget is pounds per person.
The boat trip costs about pounds each.
The kitchen for the cooking class only takes people.
The puzzle rooms are in the old building.
The puzzle rooms cost pounds per person.
Source
Original script by Joy English, read by open-source text-to-speech voices (Kokoro-82M, Apache-2.0).
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