Inglés para el trabajo y las reuniones
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Catch up
Catch up describes closing a distance or gap. It means reaching someone ahead of you, reaching an expected level of skill or progress, completing tasks you missed, or sharing recent personal news with someone after time apart.
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Burn out
Burn out means to reach deep physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion from prolonged work, to stop burning naturally because combustible fuel is depleted, or to fail mechanically from internal electrical heat damage.
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Video · 8 min Break up
Break up expresses four main ideas in modern English. First, it describes romantic partners ending a relationship. Second, it describes people in a gathering dispersing or an organizer ending an event. Third, it means dividing something larger into smaller pieces or groups. Fourth, it describes an unstable voice or video signal that cuts out during a conversation.
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Back down
Back down means to stop demanding something, stop defending an argument, or withdraw a claim after opposition. It requires an earlier disagreement where at least one person insisted on their view.
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Advice that changed meaning
Advice is guidance or a suggestion about what someone should do in a specific situation. When you receive advice, you often remember the speaker's exact words for a long time. However, the way you understand those words can develop as you face real challenges at work. A phrase that seems simple when you first hear it can take on a deeper, more practical meaning once you gain practical experience.
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First-day onboarding tasks
Mandatory workplace instructions communicate tasks that an employee must finish to obtain access, meet regulatory standards, or begin work duties. Optional invitations give employees the freedom to participate without penalty if their schedule or workload permits.
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Meeting times across time zones
Pushing a meeting back moves it to a later hour. A single event takes place at three in the afternoon in London and nine in the morning in Chicago.
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Noise complaint
A noise complaint describes how an unwanted sound interrupts daily life, such as study, work, or sleep. A compromise is an agreement where both sides change their plans slightly so everyone gets a workable result.
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Course feedback
Course evaluations give instructors practical information about what happens during a lesson. A student can appreciate a cooking teacher's clear instructions while still struggling to read a recipe sheet with tiny print across a busy kitchen counter. Accurate listening requires sorting remarks into three main categories: praise for successful methods, identification of a practical difficulty, and a constructive suggestion for upcoming classes.
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Project handover
In a project handover, completed progress is separated from upcoming responsibilities. Present perfect phrases report finished work, modal expressions and need to assign upcoming jobs, and time prepositions establish whether an action is scheduled for a specific hour or due before a final deadline.
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Returning faulty headphones
The customer returns a pair of wireless headphones because the battery fails and power cuts out after a few minutes of listening. Instead of a paper slip, the customer presents a digital receipt in an email on a smartphone, which the shop assistant accepts as valid proof of purchase. Although the assistant initially proposes a payment refund, the customer requests an exchange to receive another pair of working headphones for an upcoming trip, and the assistant agrees.
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Swapping a volunteer shift
A shift swap is a mutual exchange where two volunteers trade their scheduled hours. In our dialogue at the community food collection point, Nora cannot work Tuesday morning because of a family dentist appointment. Liam cannot cover Tuesday morning due to a college seminar, but Liam agrees to take Nora's Wednesday afternoon shift if Nora takes Liam's Thursday afternoon shift. Both volunteers accept this trade, while Tuesday morning remains rejected and coordinator approval remains pending.
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Reporting a home repair
A resident reports a loose stair handrail that moves when held and could cause someone to fall. The building manager schedules a contractor to arrive between nine and eleven tomorrow morning, directs residents to use the other staircase until the contractor arrives, and arranges backup access with a master key if the resident is away.
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Choosing an evening course
The learner compares two photography courses with distinct schedules, delivery formats, homework demands, and fees, ultimately choosing the more expensive studio course because its one-hour weekly homework fits available study time.
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A year-long cruise
The fictional cruise lasts one year and includes private cabin lodging and daily meals in the headline price. Travel insurance and shore excursions cost extra, and the traveler must obtain managerial permission to work remotely before completing a booking.
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Rescheduled interview voicemail
Instead of introduces the detail being replaced: Monday instead of Friday means Monday is the new day. Rather than can contrast two ways of meeting. By introduces a deadline: reply by Thursday means reply no later than Thursday.
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A good trajectory
A good trajectory indicates that your overall performance is improving steadily over time. It describes a positive trend rather than finished perfection, meaning that specific habits or details may still require adjustment.
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Project status update
In these updates, already helps report completed work, still shows that a situation continues, and once connects a next step to something that must happen first.
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