Learn the Top 10 Things to Do at the Office in English
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha and today we’re going
to talk about 10 things to do at the
office these are going to be 10 verbs or
10 expressions with verbs in them that
you can use when you are at the office
let’s go check email the first
expression is check email to check email
means just to look and see if you have
new messages or you need to write a
message or is there new information that
you need to be aware of so just to check
your email is to check the information
that has been sent to you in a sentence
I check email throughout the day make
copies the next expression is make
copies make copies so to make a copy
means to go to the copy machine and put
your document on the machine and then
you duplicate it anyway make copies to
make copies of a document is to
duplicate the document using the copy
machine using the copy machine in a
sentence can you make four copies of
this schedule a meeting scheduled a
meeting schedule a meeting so to
schedule a meeting means to create a
meeting and tell the other people about
the meeting at that specific time to
schedule a meeting so to make a plan for
a meeting essentially in a sentence I’ll
schedule the meeting for 11:00 tomorrow
take make a call the next is actually a
pair you have take a call and make a
call so to take a call means to receive
a call so a phone call comes to you make
a call however it means the call comes
from you like I need to make a call to
my mother today or I need to make a call
to the client later this afternoon in
the reverse you can say I really need to
take this call okay in sentence I need
to take this call write a report the
next expression is write a report write
a report so we do this after 8:00
has finished something has been
completed we need to write about that
task and the results so we write a
report about that thing in a sentence
I’ve got a few reports to write by the
end of the day attend a meeting the next
expression is attend a meeting attend
the meeting so attend means go to or
attend means participate essentially so
attend a meeting means go to the meeting
participate in the meeting in a sentence
please attend the staff meeting on
Friday have a conference call the next
expression is have a conference call
have a conference call a conference call
means a phone call with many
participants so this can mean
participants from your company sharing
like the phone in one room many people
using one phone on speakerphone so that
everyone in the room can listen so
there’s that but the person on the end
of the line the person on the other end
of the line in this case might be one
person or it might be another group of
people or it might be several groups all
speaking on the same phone call so a
conference call means a phone call or
perhaps a video call with many different
participants in a sentence we have a
conference call scheduled for three
today
submit a time sheet the next expression
is submit a time sheet submit a time
sheet so as to submit is like to present
to give your boss or to give a manager a
time sheet a time sheet is a record of
your working hours so what time did you
start work and what time did you finish
work so submitting that it might be
something you do at the end of the month
in a sentence please submit your
timesheet by the end of the week clock
in clock out the next expression is
another pair of expressions its clock in
and clock out these are the expressions
we use when we start work and we record
it in a time system and we end work and
we record the time so when we clock in
is when we come to the office and we
begin work when we arrive at the office
we clock in
we register we are at work we are at the
office we clock out when we leave the
office at the end of the day in a
sentence don’t forget to clock in and
clock out every day go to lunch the next
expression is go to lunch go to lunch so
not well you can say eat lunch but if
you say go to lunch it sounds a little
bit more friendly a little more casual
so to go to lunch means to take your
lunch break I’m gonna go to lunch in a
sentence we’re gonna go to lunch
want to come those are ten things to do
at the office is there something else
that you do at the office or an
expression you’ve heard at the office
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this is my coffee it makes that sound my
coffee machine makes a sound making
copies making copies making copies yeah
that was good ring right it’s hard to
make a copy machine sound effect gotta
work on that one because surely that has
lots of applications
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