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Unit 14: Extreme sports
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  1. 1Pop-ups
  2. 2Hidden talents
  3. 3Can't buy me love
  4. 4Travellers' tales
  5. 5The colleague from hell
  6. 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7Career changes
  8. 8Art
  9. 9Project management
  10. 10The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11The diary of a double agent
  12. 12Fashion forward
  13. 13Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14Extreme sports
  15. 15Food fads
  16. 16Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17Endangered animals
  18. 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19I'm really sorry...
  20. 20Telling stories
  21. 21Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22Looking to the future
  23. 23Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24From rags to riches
  25. 25Against the odds
  26. 26Our future on Mars?
  27. 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28Dodgy dating
  29. 29Annoying advice
  30. 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks

Session 3

Learn some English for the workplace with our drama English at Work. Anna is getting everyone to clean and tidy the office for a visit from the big boss. But she doesn't know how to tell them to stop and go home once they have done enough. She - and you - learn how to tell people they've finished their work for the day and can leave the office!

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Activity 2

Your turn!

Telling people it's the end of the day

How well do you know these expressions? In this activity, you're the boss and you need to prepare people for going home at the end of the working day - or to stop them working on a project. What's the best way to tell your team to stop working? Let's see if you can use the expressions from this session correctly.

Read the text and do the activity

To do

You have to decide on the best option to complete the sentences. When selecting your answer, try to:

1. Make sure your answer fits the meaning of the sentence.

2. Make sure it matches the form introduced in this session.

3. Make sure your answer is polite, if appropriate.

How to say 'stop working!'

6 Questions

Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences

ኣገናዕ፡ ፈተናኹም ዛዚምኩም
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
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End of Session 3

That's all for Session 3. We hope you enjoyed hearing from the English at Work team and learnt some useful expressions. In Session 4 we'll be reading about people who don't always stop at the end of the day... see you there!

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  • Phrases to tell people it's the end of the working day

    It's time to knock off... 
    It's 5 o'clock so it's time to knock off.

    You've done enough...
    I think we've done enough work - let's go home.

    I think that's enough for now...
    I really think you've done enough for now.

    Let's leave it there...
    We've done lots of work today so let's leave it there and carry on tomorrow.

    Let's call it a day...
    It's 6 o'clock so let's call it a day and go home.

    Let's wrap it up there...
    OK everyone, let's wrap it up there and start again on Monday.

ምሉእ መወከስ ስዋስው ተመልከት

Session Vocabulary

  • spring cleaning
    thoroughly cleaning a place (traditionally done at the end of winter)

    admin
    (short for administration)
    tasks that need to be done to manage the day to day running of a business

    taking the lead
    accepting the main responsibility for dealing with a situation

    incentive
    a reward that makes people want to do something or work harder because they know they'll get something for doing it

    lost for words
    not knowing what to say because of surprise or anger

ምሉእ መወከስ ማህደረ-ቃላት ተመልከት

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