Office English episode 3: Chasing people
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2024
- What happens when you ask someone to do something at work, and they don’t do it? It can be really frustrating at work when you are waiting for a reply to get the job done. In this episode of Office English, Pippa and Phil talk about how to chase people up, or remind them about a task. (Cover image: Getty)
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This is the best channell to improve/keep practising your English
This is a good episode for using in real-life situation, sometimes it is pretty hard to choose a proper word to warn somebody essentially,when their position is higher then you.
Yes, sometimes it can be tricky! Thankfully we have an Office English episode already out on our website about how to deal with conflict: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/office-english/240311 😊
Sometimes people may not respond after sending multiple followups, because they may not be aware of the task or new to the system. The perfect solution is to copy their Boss after the 2nd reminder. Thank you BBC team for this wonderful learning!
It’s Brilliant and I always fallowing for the BBC. That’s really a great.
It appears to me that it can depend on an atmosphere in your offices. If your office has a lot of kindness people, you'll always understand each other.
Hi, I am Bao, a Vietnamese lawyer. I appreciate the learning English programme of BBC. I look forward to studying episode on laws, tks.
Be looking forward
And after "look forward to" always goes verb + ing, in this case, would be: I'm looking forward to studying.
We have a lot of videos about law on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/business-english
Have a look and learn vocabulary related to 'law'! 🙂
Thank you, it was really interesting to follow this conversation, because I had to learn all this when I was working in South Africa in an English speaking workplace: with my Italian super direct way of addressing people, I was perceived as rude, a few times I noticed people literally flinching when I talked to them! After a while I learnt to not say, or write in the emails, what I really needed to say, but dance around it with some niceties and everybody loved me 😂
Thank you for useful podcasts as always 🙏🌸
I really like the subtleties of the English language. A great lesson for these eventualities to
people who are working still and want to keep a friendly environment.
Brilliant. I really needed practical business English like this
We're glad you found it useful. Make sure to check out the podcast on our website where you can access all the episodes now: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/office-english
Thank you for this useful podcast!🎉
Thanks a lot for your way how you explain this topic
Thank you for the lesson. I’d like to remark the nice and calm voice. Relaxing🙂
Thanks for an useful lesson!
Thanks so much
Great work guys ❤. Good series.
We're glad you like it! Check out all the episodes already available on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/office-english 😊
Useful 💯👌
I suppose that it is actually mandatory to keep calm and be polite at your workplace in every country. At least, in Italy, we are used to asking people to do something politely the first or the second time we talk with them. I don't think it is a prerogative of Anglo-Saxon culture
Thanks alot, this was really helpful and informative 🤩
We're glad you found it informative! If you like these sort of videos about work, check out our animated series about work with lots of useful business vocabulary: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/english-at-work
It 's a fantastic video. I preffer to be friendly
Mexican chances are 3 . I think all depends on the type of collaborator who is asking the task.
Thanks for this podcast, I'm hoping to see more episodes in the future. Just a technical note: there's a different PDF file (Calls and instant messages) attached to this episode on the BBC Learning English platform, would be great if someone fixed that
Hello, thank you for the feedback! We'll get that fixed 😊
We have just fixed the error. 😊 Thank you once again for letting us know.
Hi
I'm not working in office but the phrases are useful when write with official email.
Thanks
Definitely! Your sentence would be better like this - 'I'm not working in an office, but the phrases are useful when writing an official email'. 🙂
We also have an episode about how to write emails here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/office-english/240129 📧😊
@@bbclearningenglish thanks for the correction 🙏
Any one from India 🇮🇳
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Hello i came frome somaalia ❤
Hello from London! 😍
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Does it more or less correspond to a B2 - C1 level ?
Yes. This series is aimed at Upper Intermediate level. 😊
Can I ask what the difference is between (affect, effect)?
Here's Phil to answer your question: th-cam.com/video/4WEFI_jVGj8/w-d-xo.html
Sure. 'effect' is normally used as a noun and it means 'the result of something'. 'affect' is a verb and it means 'to influence something'.
For example: 'Learning English is having a positive effect on my life.'
'I was deeply affected by his story.' 🙂
In working environment, I have some hesitation to deal with different accents. I hope that BBC will have some tips to overcome
A good way to improve your listening skills with different English accents is to expose yourself to them more! You can do this by watching videos of things you like in English with the subtitles on. 🙂
Check out this video about the Brummie accent in the U.K. to start: th-cam.com/video/vVCd_IenEEA/w-d-xo.html
Any one from Colombia 🇨🇴
Can we use "chase up" with students not colleagues?
Yes, you can use it with anyone.
English subtitles are not proper. In place of the word "because" it is seen "cos".What does it mean? Not expected of a programme from a reputed channel.
In speaking, British people often shorten their words. 'cos' is a shortened version of 'because'🙂
@@bbclearningenglish Thank you for the clarification
Are you good at chasing people, or do you find it difficult? 🤔👇
Find the video transcript here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/office-english/240205
she tried TO TRACK HIM/HER DOWN ( = to chase sb) , Didn't she? 🙂
To track sb down
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