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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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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
Этот урок разговорной практики уровня B2 построен на видео «20 Office Expressions to Describe Your Workplace - Visual Vocabulary». Чаще всего повторяются слова: desk, dress, paper, cubicle, hot. В этом видео 88 предложений и 976 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 8:38. Говорящий держит ровный темп — около 113 слов в минуту, удобный для шедоуинга. 84% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| cubicle существительное | /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ | яче́йка |
| cramp существительное | /kɹæmp/ | спазм, су́дорога |
| photocopier существительное | фотокопирова́льное устро́йство, копирова́льный аппара́т | |
| printer существительное | /ˈpɹɪntɚ/ | печа́тник, типо́граф |
| workplace существительное | /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ | рабо́чее ме́сто, ме́сто рабо́ты |
| surveillance существительное | /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ | надзо́р, наблюде́ние |
| boot существительное | /but/ | бу́тса, боти́нок |
| adjective существительное | /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ | и́мя прилага́тельное, прилага́тельное |
| photocopy существительное | /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/ | ксероко́пия, фотоко́пия |
| reliably наречие | надёжно | |
| unreliable прилагательное | /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/ | ненадёжный, неблагонадёжный |
| swipe глагол | /swaɪp/ | проводи́ть, провести́ |
| noisy прилагательное | /ˈnɔɪzi/ | шу́мный, шумли́вый |
| vocabulary существительное | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | слова́рь, слова́рный запа́с |
| startup существительное | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | за́пуск, пуск |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Значение |
|---|---|
| check out глагол | проверя́ть, прове́рить |
Фразы, которые стоит повторять
Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:
- 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?
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 14 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например don't, aren't, can't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: photocopy /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/, unreliable /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, notorious /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:
- /w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: workspace /ˈwɝkˌspeɪs/, workplace /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/, swipe /swaɪp/
- Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, trousers /ˈtɹaʊzɚz/
Как заниматься с этим видео
- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Повторяйте предложение за предложением на обычной скорости, пока ваш ритм не совпадёт с ритмом говорящего.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как cubicle, cramp, photocopier.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.