Hello everyone, this is Andrew from
Crown Academy of English and today we are going to do a
lesson on working at the
office. So, I'm going to teach you
lots of words, lots of vocabulary
about working at the office.
Let's get started..... so
the first word is.......
the word for desk
so that..... a desk
is where you work... so you work
at a desk and this is where you
put your documents and
this desk, as you can see, is made
of wood, and on
the right there are two drawers.
So you can see them here... this is the top drawer
and this is the
bottom drawer.... okay
and you can see on the front of
the drawer, there is a handle. So
the handle is for
opening the drawer.
And on a desk, you can put
a desk lamp. So this is
a lamp for the desk...
so we call it a desk lamp okay,
and you can see here, inside the lamp
this is the bulb, the light bulb
and here is the wire.
Also in an office, at a desk,
we need a chair
So this is
a black chair, made out of
leather and
on the sides of the chair there are two
arm rests. So this is
the right arm rest and here is
the left arm rest. And so the
arm rests are where we can put our arms.
They are on both sides of the chair.
And when we are at our desk... when we are
in the office, we often work with
a laptop computer.... so
this is a laptop computer...
and
this part of the computer
is the screen.
So on the screen, this is where we can
see our documents,
our files ... and
this is the keyboard. So
on the keyboard, there are keys
and we use the keyboard
to type... so
we can use the keyboard
to type a letter or to write a message
and
the English keyboard, we sometimes call it
a QWERTY keyboard... and we call it
a QWERTY keyboard because the
top row of keys...
the letters are
Q ... W ... E ...
R ... T ... Y
So that spells QWERTY
So if you hear somebody say
QWERTY keyboard, they mean
an English keyboard. And
this computer device, in English
we call it a mouse,
yes it's the same word as the little animal!
And the reason is because it looks a little bit like ...
it looks a little bit like a mouse with the ears
here I suppose.... so we call this
a mouse.... and here
is the left button, the
left mouse button still so we call this
the left button and here
is the right button and
in the middle.... this
is called the mouse wheel so we use the mouse wheel
to scroll up
the page, and to scroll down
the page.
And here is the wire. So the wire goes
from the mouse and connects
into the computer. If
the mouse does not have a wire, we say it is wireless...
so wireless. And
a sentence... something we can say with the mouse,
we would say I double-click on the
icon.... so for example,
if we wanted to run "Microsoft
Word", we would say
I am double-clicking
on the Word icon.... and
if we want to say to somebody to click
using the left button,
we would say... oh
sorry....if we wanted to say click using
the right button, then we say right-click. so if somebody asks you to right-click,
they mean to press this button
with your right finger....
and
we can also say left-click... so
to left-click means to click
on the left button.
And something else that we need
with the computer... when we need
to produce a document,
we use
a printer. So this is called a printer....
and in the printer,
we load the printer
with paper... with paper okay.
So this is the paper. We put the sheets
of paper in the back of this printer
and then..
they.... when they are printed, the paper comes
out here and this is called the paper tray. This is the paper tray.
So if you have... if your manager
has a printer which can print in red, yellow,
green, blue... we can say that
"My manager has a colour printer."..ok
Now "colour"... this word here...
colour - C O L O U R .....
that is BRITISH English ...
okay... American English
is different and
color is spelt C O L O R
in American English. So
that is a big difference. And
if my printer is not
a colour printer, I can say I have a black and white
printer because it can only print in black
or white. Inside
the printer, there are
ink cartridges
.... so the ink cartridges
are where the ink is stored...
and on a colour printer, there would be
3 different coloured ink
cartridges....so
a sentence we can use then... we can say
"My printer has run out of ink."
This is an expression. To
RUN OUT OF something so these three words...
RUN OUT OF - this means
there is no more ink and
so we can use this expression RUN OUT OF
.. we can use this, for example, to say
"I have run out of milk"
or "I have run
out of water ... or
"I have run out of
soap" So "run out of" means
the ink is finished. There is no more ink.
So "My printer has run out
of ink." So we can say
"I must change the ink cartridges." ...
which means we must change
these cartridges and put them
into the printer ...
So.... this
is a telephone ... so
everybody has a telephone on their desk
in the office and
this part of the telephone - this
long piece here .... this
is called the handset. So
when your telephone rings, when you
receive a call you pick up
the handsets when you answer the phone
you pick up the handset. So
when you receive a call, your telephone
rings. So we can say "My telephone
is ringing." .... and when
you want to use your telephone to contact
somebody, to speak to somebody,
you can say
that you call somebody so
we can say for example "This morning,
I called a supplier." This means
that you picked up your handset
and you dialled
a number, and you called
a supplier, or you called
a customer, or you called
your parents. We can also say
I MADE a call. This morning, I MADE a call.
And here we have
a different type of telephone... and this one
is called a "mobile phone" So this
is a mobile phone ... and
again this is the
British English word.
In British English, we say mobile phone and
in American English, Americans
say "cellphone". So if you hear
the word cell phone, then that
is American English.
Now this is called a
stapler. Stapler ...
and a stapler uses
staples.
So a stapler contains
staples. We put staples
inside the stapler.... and
if we want to remove staples
from a sheet of paper, we use
staple remover
so we use staple remover
to take out ... or ..
to remove the staples from
a piece of paper. This
is called a calculator
So we use a calculator
... to
do some calculations.... to do some
additions and
to work out sums... ok and something else we see
in an office is a calendar.
Now this is a desk
calendar because it is
small enough to go on the desk.
So this one is a 2013
calendar and it is showing
the month of January. And this
is called either...
an agenda or
we can call it a personal organiser
or sometimes we call it
a diary.... okay
I think the most common word for it would be
diary or personal organiser
Agenda is
less often, we don't... is less common.... we don't
often call it an agenda - we usually call it
a diary or a personal organiser. And
here on top of the diary,
here is a pen. So we use a pen
for writing inside the diary.
Here we can see lots of
files ... so
we use files to
store documents and
pieces of paper.
So here there is a yellow file,
a red file, a white file,
a blue file .... and
we put files in ...
excuse me ..... in a filing cabinet. So
we put the files in
the filing cabinets. We store
the files in a filing cabinet.
Here we can see them here. Here there are three black
files in the filing cabinet.
These little plastic things
are called paper clips ...
paper clips ... and here is a yellow
paper clip, here is a green one, a red one,
a white one ... and we use
paper clips to attach
pieces of paper together .... to group
pieces of paper together. Now here
on this photograph, we can see several
sheets of paper, of
white paper... here is a pen ...
here are some yellow
post-its We call these post-its
and at the top... this
big black plastic thing is called
a "bulldog clip" and Bulldog.. yes
that is the same as the breed of
dog, of animal ! I'm not quite sure..
not sure why we call it a bulldog clip
but that is the name. So
here is a larger
photograph. So at the top here... this
is called a bulldog clip. Now here
on this photograph there are three things. The first one
is here... it is a pencil.
So we use a pencil for writing
and for drawing. And when
the pencil has been used a lot, the pencil
becomes blunt...and so
we need to use a pencil
sharpener. So we use this
to sharpen the pencil. so
if the pencil is blunt, we use
this to sharpen
the pencil. And here,
at the bottom, is a ruler.. and we use
a ruler to measure distance.
So here we can see there are
centimetres on the ruler -
four centimetres, five centimetres,
six centimetres. And
this is a photograph
of the top of a pencil. You can see this is the pencil...
and this is the top of the pencil.. and this
white part is called an eraser.
okay an eraser.... now
an eraser is used to .....
to correct mistakes so
if we wanted to delete a word,
or to remove a word, we use an eraser.
And here
this ... this
is called sellotape
ok...now sellotape....
we call it sellotape, sellotape is in fact
a brand name. It is a brand name for...
for this okay... because in England..
or in Britain this is
the best-selling type
of "sticky tape". So
the general word for this object is
"sticky tape" but in England,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland,
in Great Britain ....
we actually call it sellotape
okay because that is the most famous brand
of this product....
and the black plastic part
is called the dispenser.
Okay so this item
is called a stamp or sometimes we call it
a rubber stamp and
we use it for .... for printing words on on a document like
"guarantee" or "fragile"
or "export" or something like that.
...
and this is called a hole punch.
So a hole punch is used
for ... making holes
in a piece of paper which we then put
in a file. So we put
the paper here and then we press
down on the hole punch, and that
makes a hole here and a hole here...
and then we can put the paper inside a file.
And...
this is called a "waste
paper bin"
"Bin" is the word that we use
for ... putting
rubbish in and.. it's waste paper... we
say it's waste paper because it's paper that ..
we want to throw away, that we no longer
need. So we say this is a waste
paper bin.
If I print, for example, if I print
a Word document.. if I print a document
on my computer and printer, but then I need
ten copies of that document,
then I would use the photocopier.
So a photocopier is used
for making copies of a document.
Right, now this is a photograph
of a meeting room ... so a
meeting room is a room in which
there is a table and
several chairs around the table
and it is a place where people
come together ... to hold a meeting.
We say to HOLD a meeting.
We don't say "do a meeting" we say "we hold
a meeting". So here is a meeting with
four people... and
in the meeting room here, we can see at the back of the meeting room,
there is a flip chart and
this is used for writing...
for writing words on or for drawing things ...
and here
we can see that the person at the front...
he is giving
a presentation.. presentation.
So a presentation
is like a speech... or
maybe a training course.
It's very often ...
yes some sort of a speech or an explanation of something or
training. And..
to display, to be able to display
things on the screen we use
a projector. So we use
a projector to display ....
text and pictures on the screen.
Here we can see a businessman.
So listen carefully to the pronunciation...
We say businessman okay ...
and he's wearing
a black tie and he's holding
he's holding a briefcase.
So this type of bag, we call it
a briefcase. And
we also have a businesswoman. So this is
a businesswoman and she's wearing
... like a blue jacket,
a white blouse and
she's also wearing
glasses. These are called glasses.
And here we can see there are two businessmen...
and they are shaking
hands. So the verb "to shake
hands". So this man...
so they're both shaking hands... and here
on the right hand side, this person
is giving a business card
to the other person. So,
a business card is a small white
card which contains
information like ...
your name, your job title,
your company name,
the company address,
your telephone number, your email address,
your website. So it's
information about how to contact you.
So...
you could say to somebody "Do you have a business card?" Or you could say
"Let's exchange business cards." Ok?
So, that is
the end of the lesson. So I think there we've learned
a lot of new words today.
Lots of words of things that you will find
very often in an office and words that you need to learn.
Words that you would definitely be using. So
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