Pratica di Shadowing: Talking about Work in English 💼 Beginner English listening practice Level A2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i 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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Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

Pratica di Shadowing: Talking about Work in English 💼 Beginner English listening practice Level A2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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