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 Noval on Tue, 09/08/2022 - 14:46

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I have to give some information about my work progress to my leader.

Submitted by Geydibayona07 on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 03:33

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I am engineer biomedical, I work in a hospital, in the morning I have briefing with coworkers, we talk about medical equipments that requires maintenance.

Submitted by mamalirezaenglish on Thu, 04/08/2022 - 14:50

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I work in a marketing team as search engine marketer. I usually give instructions to content writers to how write a optimized content and giving them a checklist of tips to help them keep in mind the most crucial information for content creation.

Submitted by vet.dr.muharre… on Wed, 03/08/2022 - 15:21

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the in our job place be briefing at one time of week. At in this briefing usually telling begin times of work. then always drink tea or coffe and eatcake and everyone turn back in work.

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Submitted by nicky62 on Thu, 14/07/2022 - 07:08

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hi very very good for improving listening i really enjoyed it .tank you

Submitted by karenfonsaa on Wed, 13/07/2022 - 05:51

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I am a Design Coordinator, so I have to give instruction to the programmer, the audiovisual producer and the junior graphic designer according to the different projects we manage in the organization. And I give the information for the status of the projects to the area coordinators every monday in our meeting weekly.