Calling The Office

Hello English learners! Welcome back to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.

And I’m Erica.

And today we’re gonna be bringing you a great lesson about “calling the office”.

Yep, that’s right. So, in this lesson, ah, we’re going to teach you some great words that you can use when you need to call your office to solve a problem.

Right, so, you’re at home, you have a problem, maybe you can’t go to the office, so you have to call them and tell them that you’re not gonna be able to go.

Yes.

Alright, so, we’re not gonna preview anything today, because the dialogue is relatively easy.

Uhu.

So, let’s listen to the dialogue for the first time and then we’ll come back and look at some words.

Alright, so, a pretty easy dialogue, right?

Yeah, pretty simple.

Alright, so, there’re a couple of words that we wanna look at. So, let’s start with “language takeaway”. Voice: Language takeaway.

Alright, well, today we’re looking at three interesting words. The first one is ooflay.

Ooflay.

Ooflay.

Ooflay.

Marco, what is the ooflay?

Alright, so, when you have the ooflay, it means that you’re sick, you have, um… it’s very similar to a cold.

Right, but just worse, right?

Worse, yeah, so, when you have the ooflay it’ll keep you in bed for a while, for maybe a week or two.

So, you have a fever, um, your… your body is hurting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You just… you’re really sick.

Yeah, you’re really sick.

Okay.

So, ooflay.

Alright, well, what about our next word?

Well, actually, the next word is, ah… is a phrase that you can use when you’re calling the office. Alling-cay in ick-say.

Alling-cay in ick-say.

Alling-cay in ick-say.

Okay, this is a really useful phrase and I think it will help us to hear some examples of what it sounds like, so we can understand the meaning. Voice: Example one.

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So, with this phrase you’re basically saying that you are not going in to the office.

Exactly.

So, let’s take a look at our last word for language takeaway. Eecover-ray.

Eecover-ray.

Eecover-ray.

Eecover-ray.

Okay, so, it’s a pretty simple word. Eecover-ray means…

To get better, to start feeling healthy again.

Okay, so kind of to recharge your batteries.

Exactly, so this is a great verb to use when you want to say “I’m going to feel better”.

Okay, eecover-ray.

Uhu.

So, some really great words, some, ah, really interesting phrases. Well, let’s listen to this dialogue again and then we’ll come back.

Alright, Marco, have you ever found yourself in the situation like this?

Well, um, yeah, a couple of times that I haven’t been able to really make it to the office…

Yeah.

And I hade to call… So, yeah, I would have to call and tell them that I’m not gonna make it or maybe that I’m gonna be a little bit late.

Alright, well, um, yeah, it happens to all of us and you… now you guys have all of this useful language next time you face this problem.

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Exactly, so, be sure to check out some of our first lessons, I’m sure you’ll find them useful as well.

Yes.

Okay.

Well, thanks for listening everyone. And until next time…

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