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 Emily Mellor on Tue, 19/05/2020 - 14:12

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As I'm a medical student, I often give information and instructions to patients. It includes about the disease conditions they suffer, side effects of drugs they should know, what they should avoid to recover from the disease and changing their lifestyle to become healthy. But I'm not a doctor and just a medical student now. So there are a lot of new things to learn and I have little chance to give information and instructions to patients.

Submitted by mouna99 on Sun, 17/05/2020 - 16:12

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Sometimes I give informations to my classmates
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Submitted by Akbarhuja on Sat, 16/05/2020 - 09:34

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It is normal for me. And you

Submitted by Danii on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 15:03

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This was very useful and it improved my writing skills!!!
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Submitted by Sergei Baskakov on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 13:01

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I usually give some instructions to the designer at work. The instuctions relate to the structure of client site pages.
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Submitted by Akbarhuja on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 04:15

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It was useful for me. And you?

Submitted by sorayajesus on Tue, 12/05/2020 - 11:59

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I weekly give information to my head about my tasks, because she have to introduce to our company. I sometimes give instructions to my husband about how to buy fruits and vegetables.