short stories shared for discussion with your friends and family

Story time with Debbie

Celebrate my birthday with me. Learn how to say "no" in more ways. 

Lingua Juice Podcast

Birthday Pod

just a cute little story about a first day at a new working place

New words 生词：

офисная одежда - business clothes, 办公室衣服;
сложный день - a difficult day, 一个艰难的一天;
первое впечатление - first impression, 第一印象;
коллеги - colleagues, 同事;
внутренние процессы - internal processes, 内部流程;
крупная компания - a big company, 一家大公司;
общее обсуждение - general discussion, 一般性讨论;
ввести в курс дела - bring up to date, 更新;
совещание, встреча - a meeting, 一次会议;
рабочий чат - group chat, 群聊;
добавить в рабочий чат - to add to a group chat, 加群聊;
сложные задания - difficult tasks, 复杂的任务;
нестандартные задачи - non-standard tasks, 非标准任务;
собеседование - an interview, 采访.



Пряник

Несколько советов, что делать в первый день на работе

Beginner Chinese Listening：今天很热。It's hot today。

Beginner Chinese Listening

So when I was deciding which topic to focus on for our second episode I really only needed to look at what the people I work with are actually asking for. One of the most common topics that I discuss with people is presentations. Presentations can be great opportunities to use those English skills that you work so hard on, but they also have their own stresses and challenges. Today we’re going to look at some vocabulary that you might hear when watching a presentation and some that you might want to use when giving your own. At the end we also have our 'big discussion question' to help you with your speaking practice. You can find the vocabulary from this podcast in the vocabulary sets on my profile. I hope you enjoy today's podcast and I look forward to meeting you on a call very soon!

Breakout Business English

Breakout Business English - Ep 2. Presentations

In this short episode we will play a game that will help you learn and/or revise important vocabulary, related to the language structure.

Spoiler alert!!!😂😂😂

The words covered are:
- Countable
- Verb
- Noun
- Preposition
- Uncountable 
- Pronoun
- Adverb
- Conjunction
- Article (definite and indefinite)
- Regular and irregular (verbs)
- Adjective

Vlad's teaching tales

Introduction to language related vocabulary (Part 1)

おはようございます。こんにちは。こんばんは。おげんきですか。

あしたどこへ行（い）きますか。Where will you go tomorrow?
会社（かいしゃ）へ行きます。I will go to work.
学校（がっこう）へ行きます。I will go to school.
デパートへ行きます。To the department store.
スーパーへ行きます。To the supermarket.
東京（とうきょう）へ行きます。I am going to Tokyo.

けさ　どこへ行きましたか。Where did you go this morning?
けさ　学校へ行きました。I went to school this morning.
けさ　スーパーへ行きました。I went to the supermarket this morning.

なんで学校へ行きますか。How do you go to school?
あるいて学校へ行きます。I go to school by walk.
自転車(じてんしゃ)で学校へ行きます。I go to school by bicycle.
電車（でんしゃ）で学校へ行きます。I go to school by train.

わたしは日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan.
飛行機（ひこうき）で日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan by plane.
だれと日本へ行きますか。Who are you going to Japan with?
一人（ひとり）で日本（にほん）へ行きます。I will go to Japan alone.
友（とも）だちと日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan with my friends.
何よう日（なんようび）に学校へ行きますか。What days of the week do you go to school?
月よう日（げつようび）と水よう日（すいようび）に学校へ行きます。
I go to school on Mondays and Wednesdays.

いつ会社へ行きますか。When do you go to work?
毎日（まいにち）会社へ行きます。I go to work every day.
9時半（くじはん）に会社へ行きます。I go to work at 9:30.
9時半に電車（でんしゃ）で会社へ行きます。I go to work at 9:30 by train.

たんじょう日はいつですか。When is your birthday?
たんじょう日は8月17日です。My birthday is August 17.

たくさんきいて、たくさんれんしゅうしてください。
（Please listen and practice a lot!)




にほんごのれんしゅう

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