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Hi, I'm Katie.
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Welcome to Oxford Online English.
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In this visual vocabulary lesson, you can learn words and phrases to talk about offices and describe where you work.
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Let's start by looking at different types of offices.
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I work in an open plan office.
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It's light and modern, but it can be quite noisy sometimes and it can be hard to focus on my work.
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My office has cubicles.
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It's okay but sometimes I find it depressing that there are no windows and I can't see the sky.
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Is your office open plan?
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Many modern offices are.
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Open plan means that everything is in one large space and there aren't many separate rooms.
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Many open plan offices have cubicles.
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Large offices with many cubicles can be called cubicle farms.
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This has a negative meaning.
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If you describe your office as a cubicle farm, you're probably suggesting that it's a boring place to work.
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I work for a startup and our office is nice but too small.
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It's very cramped and there aren't enough desks so we have to hot desk.
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Cramped is a useful adjective.
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It means that you don't have enough space.
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You can use it for many things.
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For example, if your kitchen is very small and you can't move around without hitting things, then you could say it's cramped.
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What about hot desk?
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Do you know what it means or can you guess?
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desking is a way to share a workspace.
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If you hot desk you don't have your own desk, you share a desk with other workers and you just take any free desk when you get to work.
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Hot desking might be used in companies where people don't work at the same time.
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If employees work at different hours they can hot desk.
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As one person leaves another person can arrive and use the same workspace.
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After working here for a few years I got a promotion and was given my own personal office.
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In many buildings having a corner office of your own is considered the best location because you have views on two sides.
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On the other hand the words personal office just means that you don't share your office with anyone.
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A personal office could also be a tiny room with no windows.
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Our company is quite casual so people just wear what they want.
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My company has a strict dress code.
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You have to dress smartly at all times.
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Does your office have a dress code?
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Do people in your office dress more casually or more smartly?
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You can say dress smartly or dress formally.
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The meaning is similar.
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What else?
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Some workplaces might have a smart casual dress code.
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Smart casual is in the middle between formal and informal.
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For example, for men it might mean wearing a shirt and smart trousers, but not a tie or a full suit.
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We have a small meeting room in our office.
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Sometimes we have bigger meetings and we need to rent a larger space somewhere else.
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Many offices have a meeting room.
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What other rooms might you find in an office?
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Can you think of three?
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Bigger offices might have a conference room,
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room like a meeting room but larger you might have a copy room for making photocopies
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or printing documents you might have a staff room or a break room for employees to eat and relax
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an office could have an it room or a server room with computer equipment
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We have a copy room with a photocopier and a heavy duty printer.
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The copier tends to break a lot or the paper gets jammed.
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Heavy duty describes something that can do a large amount of work reliably.
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You can use it for other things too.
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For example, if you work in construction, you might need heavy duty boots, tough boots that can protect your feet.
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Do you often have problems with printers or photocopiers at work?
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These machines are notorious for being unreliable.
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A common problem is a paper jam.
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The paper gets stuck inside the machine and you have to open it up and try to get it out.
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Our office still relies on paper records for many things, so everyone has to know how our filing system works.
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If your office still keeps paper records, you might use filing cabinets to keep files and records organised.
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Our company decided to go 100% paperless recently so all our records are digital.
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On the other hand, many companies are trying to use less paper for environmental or budget reasons.
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If your company doesn't use paper for anything, you can say that you work in a paperless office.
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Our office has a lot of security.
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Most internal doors are kept locked and you need a swipe card to open them.
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Cameras monitor all areas of the office.
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Staff don't like it because they feel like they're being watched all the time.
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If your office has a lot of security measures like card locked doors, CCTV cameras or security guards,
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then you can say that your company has tight security.
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Another useful word is surveillance.
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Many security measures like cameras might be used to track employees and see where they go and what they do.
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This is an example of surveillance, devices or rules designed to monitor employees.
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What about your office?
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Can you describe your workplace?
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Put your description in the comments and try to use some of the language you've seen in this lesson.
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That's all.
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Thanks for watching.
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Thank you.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「20 Office Expressions to Describe Your Workplace - Visual Vocabulary」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：desk, dress, paper, cubicle, hot。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が88文、単語が976語あります。 音声の長さは8:38です。 話す速さは1分あたり約113語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| cubicle 名詞 | /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ | 個室 |
| cramp 名詞 | /kɹæmp/ | 痙攣 |
| photocopier 名詞 | 複写機, コピー機 | |
| workspace 名詞 | /ˈwɝkˌspeɪs/ | ワークスペース |
| printer 名詞 | /ˈpɹɪntɚ/ | 印刷者 |
| workplace 名詞 | /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ | 職場, 仕事場 |
| surveillance 名詞 | /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ | 監視, サーベイランス |
| boot 名詞 | /but/ | ブーツ, ブート |
| adjective 名詞 | /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ | 形容動詞 |
| photocopy 名詞 | /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/ | ゼロックス, フォトコピー |
| reliably 副詞 | しっかり, 頼もしく | |
| noisy 形容詞 | /ˈnɔɪzi/ | うるさい, 騒がしい |
| vocabulary 名詞 | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | 語彙, 語彙力 |
| startup 名詞 | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | スタートアップ, ベンチャー |
| notorious 形容詞 | /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/ | 悪名高い |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| check out 動詞 | 試験する, 検査する |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- Is your office open plan?
- Does your office have a dress code?
- What other rooms might you find in an office?
- Can you think of three?
- Can you describe your workplace?
注意したい発音
話し手はdon't, aren't, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を14回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: photocopy /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/, unreliable /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, notorious /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: smartly /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/, unreliable /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, informal /ɪnˈfɔɹ.m(ə)l/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: surveillance /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: photocopy /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/, informal /ɪnˈfɔɹ.m(ə)l/, formally /ˈfɔː.mə.li/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。cubicle, cramp, photocopierなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。