Shadowing Practice: Talking about Work in English 💼 Beginner English listening practice Level A2 - Learn English Speaking with Video

I work as a secretary so I work in an office.

I start work at 9 o 'clock so I leave home at half past 8.

I take 25 minutes to drive to work.

I park in the car park and I take the lift to the floor where my office is and my desk.

At my desk I have a computer and a very comfortable chair.

It is important to have a comfortable chair because I spend 8 hours per day sitting down.

I use my computer a lot during my day.

I have a screen, a keyboard and a mouse.

I also have some headphones because sometimes I have to have a video call with my boss.

I also have a telephone on my desk.

I need that to call my co -workers and sometimes my clients.

Because I am a secretary,

I have to write a lot of emails and create documents.

Sometimes my boss sends me emails from the clients and I reply to them.

I also have to attend meetings with my team.

These meetings can be online but sometimes they are in the same building.

We use emails, phone calls and messaging apps to stay connected because communication is very important in an office.

My team is great.

It feels like we are a small family.

I work with seven people in my office and they are all young.

They are 20 to 30 year olds.

So that makes it very fun for us.

At 12 o 'clock, we have lunch together.

We rest a little and we go to the cafeteria in the building or we go to a cafe nearby.

I normally have a coffee and a sandwich.

only something small after lunch we go back to the office and we work for five more hours

my favorite part of going to work is spending time with my co -workers or colleagues and and helping the clients.

I think that it's very important to always be friendly with the clients and be helpful.

Sometimes they have a problem and I call them to help them.

It makes me very happy when they say that I help them a lot.

But the worst part of my job is spending 8 hours in front of my computer and sitting down.

It can be very stressful to send a lot of emails as well,

and to receive a lot of phone calls.

Also, the programs on my computer don't work sometimes,

so that is very frustrating.

I need my computer to work, so if it isn't working,

then it is very difficult for me to work.

At the end of the day,

at 5 o 'clock, I tidy up my desk and turn my computer off.

I leave the office at about 5 minutes past 5 and I drive home.

But this doesn't happen every day,

sometimes I have a lot of work and I have to stay in the office until 6 or 7 o 'clock.

Other days I have special projects or courses for training.

These projects and courses are to teach us new things about our job and I find it very interesting,

but I leave work at 6 or 7 o 'clock, so I don't have a lot of free time.

When I get home, I like to do some sport, like going for a run or going to the gym.

Like I said, the bad thing about working in an office is

that you are sitting down for a lot of hours per day and it is not good for your health,

so it's important to stay active and do exercise.

I go to bed at around 11 o 'clock and I wake up the next morning ready to go to work again.

I like my job as a secretary and I like my daily tasks tasks.

I am also very lucky to have great colleagues at work.

But I still get the feeling

that I spend too many hours at work and I am very happy

when the weekend comes along and when I have holidays.

Let me know in the comments section what you work as

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¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

Shadowing Practice: Talking about Work in English 💼 Beginner English listening practice Level A2 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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