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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia 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
schedule 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
tomorrow
take
make a call
the next is actually a pair we 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 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 uh in
the reverse you can say oh i really need
to take this call
okay in a 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 a
task 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 a 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
uh 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 timesheet
the next expression is submit a
timesheet submit a timesheet so to
submit is like to present to give your
boss or to give a manager a timesheet a
timesheet is a record of your working
hours so what time did you start work
and what time did you finish work so
submitting that 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 it's 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 going to go to lunch want
to come
those are 10 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 that you're confused about
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this is my coffee machine
it makes that sound my coffee machine
makes a
sound making copies making copies making
copies yeah that was good
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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