A morning briefing

A morning briefing

Listen to a morning briefing to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

Hi, everyone. I know you're all busy so I'll keep this briefing quick. I have some important information about a change in the management team. As you already know, our head of department, James Watson, is leaving his position at the end of this week. His replacement is starting at the end of the next month. In the meantime, we'll continue with our projects as usual.

I have two more quick points. Firstly, there will be some improvements made to the staff car park next month for a few weeks. It will be closed during that time.

Don't worry, we've found a solution. We can use the local church car park until our own one is ready. If you arrive before 8.30 a.m., please use our small car park on Brown Street, and if you arrive after that, you should go directly to the church car park. It's only a five-minute walk away. But they need it in the evenings, so you have to leave before 6 p.m. Sorry about that – I know how much you all love working late!

The other thing I wanted to tell you about is that the canteen has now introduced a cashless payment system. So, you can't use cash for payments any more. You can pay directly with your smartphone or you can pay using your company ID card. The total amount put on your company ID card comes off your salary at the end of each month.

OK. That's it? Are there any questions?

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Submitted by Kirk Moore on Sun, 10/01/2021 - 13:19

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Hello Ykilic34,

Yes, 'successor' would work well here too. Nice suggestion!

All the best,

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by Minh on Wed, 06/01/2021 - 18:36

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Well, I want to give information and instruction for my children that they should to go to bed earlier. Because they have to come back school for learning. It's crucial thing that it makes both of us to go to school on time.

Submitted by Suraj paliwal on Thu, 31/12/2020 - 07:07

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Yes, I give instructions and information to my yougers, teen agers about teaching. My mother gives me instructions a lot. She said," You wake up early in the morning and then go to gym after that you should go school daily.

Submitted by BryanSR on Wed, 30/12/2020 - 19:46

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Hi, everyone my name is Bryan and today I've learned new vocabulary as: Briefing, cames off, usual, and canteen. I hope to learn a lot of important things about English. Thank you and good look to everyone.

Submitted by maharosa on Wed, 30/12/2020 - 19:17

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hi, As I am a manager of a consulting office, i have to give informations to my clients about a new laws and standards. and i give instructions to the emloyees for improving the work

Submitted by mhdoamaral on Mon, 28/12/2020 - 13:20

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At my home, I’m used to give information and instructions to my child, he’s only 2 years old and is learning how to speak. At my work, I’m used to give information about oil market and prices and instructions about how to analyze oil market data using statistical models and data science technics using computer language coding to my coworkers. In the past, I used to give instructions to my younger sister about the things that she was studying at school.

Submitted by glen on Sun, 20/12/2020 - 22:18

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As, the next person to the head of the department, I will give information to my colleague/team and other employees in my department about the resignation and the last day of our boss/head in the company and newly hired of the department will start. I will give instruction to the employees' about the temporary car park while the closure of the company's car park. The place, the time allotted for. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you

Submitted by lean on Tue, 15/12/2020 - 11:11

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Hello I'd like to say about preparation task. I think "a replacement" isn't a person. It mean an action or condition. So I would write " an action or condition as a result somebody or something will take the place of another one ". Pls correct me if I'm wrong :-)))