hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and we're bringing you another great Elementary lesson today one that takes place at the office yes today we're going to teach you some great phrases so that you can ask people to help you right and I think this dialogue is with a new person at the office MH so when you're new you always need to ask people for favors exactly okay so we're going to be asking for a favor so Marco what exactly is a favor something that a person does for you like a small helpful thing yeah a small helpful thing so you know like can you pass me that pencil maybe that's even a favor yeah or maybe uh can you pick me up on your way to work yeah that's a favor or even lending money to your friend that's a favor yeah so that's what we're going to be talking about favors and how to ask for one cuz you always have to do this at work at work with your friends with your family so let's listen to the dialogue and then we'll come back and explain all the [Music] vocabulary um sorry to bother you um my name is Rachel I'm new here can I ask you for a favor hi Rachel welcome on board I'm afraid I can't help you right now I'm getting ready for a very important meeting excuse me but can I bother you for a second you know what I'd love to help you but I'm I'm about to meet an important client do you want to ask Sean instead he sits right over there sorry to interrupt you Sean could you do me a quick favor actually I'm working on a document that's doing a couple of minutes I really can't talk right now sorry about that jeez I just want to know where the bathroom is what's wrong with you people so a pretty busy office pretty unhelpful colleagues I know everyone's so busy they didn't help this poor girl yeah I hope she found the bathroom now let's take a look at the language from the dialogue so let's start with language takeaway language takeaway there's some great language in this dialogue wasn't there yeah a lot of uh interesting phrase and words um the first one that that I saw that was really interesting is on board on board welcome on board well we've got some examples of how this phrase is used so let's listen to them to help us understand the meaning example one welcome on board Sarah if you have any questions please feel free to ask me example two we need to get our new office assistant on board as soon as possible example three we decided to bring Melissa on board to join the marketing team so basically it means welcome to the company welcome to the company or the team yeah welcome on board so on board is the same as to the company I I guess also when you get on a ship they'll tell you welcome on board yes that's where it comes from or an airplane yeah yeah welcome on board okay let's take a look at our next word about to about to I'm about to I'm about to so this is a great phrase to explain that you're about to do something I'm going to do this thing really soon okay so so for example you can say I'm about to go out for lunch mhm or I could say hey Marco let's go record a show I'm about to go into a meeting mhm exactly yeah about to going to do something really soon okay the next word we have is instead instead instead instead it means in the place of in the place of yep so for example if we're at dinner I could say I'll have the chicken instead of the fish mhm right or I can say I wanted to buy a red sweater but they didn't have one so I bought a blue one instead instead mhm okay so in the place of yeah and our last word for language takeaway interrupt interrupt interrupt interrupt so when somebody interrupts you they come in and they talk to you while you're doing something or maybe while you're speaking or maybe you're busy and people come and and B you bother you yeah okay so interrupt interrupt okay some great words here in our dialogue and now we can listen to it again this time it's going to be a little bit slower and you'll be able to understand the language a little bit [Music] better um sorry to bother you um my name is Rachel I'm new here can I ask you for a favor hi Rachel welcome on board I'm afraid I can't help you right now I'm getting ready for a very important meeting excuse me but can I bother you for a second you know what I'd love to help you but I'm about to meet an important client do you want to try sha instead he sits right over there sorry to interrupt you Sean could you do me a quick favor actually I'm working on a document that is due in a couple of minutes I really can't talk to you right now sorry about that jeez I just want to know where the bathroom is what's wrong with you people okay so there are some great ways that you can ask someone for a favor right yeah we want to show you some really useful phrases for asking for help so let's start with putting it together putting it together let's listen to some different ways of how you can ask someone for a favor example one may I get you to do me a favor can you carry this package in your suitcase for me example two can I ask you a favor can you just finish this report for me example three will you do me a favor and pass me that file okay so those were great examples of asking for a favor in our dialogue we heard can I ask you a favor mhm but we could also say can I get you to do me a favor right can I get you to do me a favor also I could say will you do me a favor will you do me a favor right so those are different ways of asking for a favor let's say you want to ask someone for a favor right mhm but they're busy right so you'll need some phrases to help you do this exactly you need some phrases to interrupt somebody right so let's listen to some examples of what phrases you can use to begin to talk to someone yeah to interrupt them okay I hate to bother you but I hate to bother you but I'm sorry to bother you but I'm sorry to bother you but I don't mean to bother you but I don't mean to bother you but okay so those are really nice and polite ways of beginning to talk to someone exactly they're really useful at the office so maybe you want to talk to your boss you knock on his door kind of open it a little bit and say I'm sorry to bother you but but I was wondering if you have time for a meeting today mhm or you could say I hate to bother you but do you have time for a meeting today exactly so those are great ways of starting up a conversation and maybe setting it up to ask for a favor right mhm so we can combine them I could say I hate to bother you but can you do me a favor perfect right yeah really useful so then then you can ask someone for a favor yep okay great stuff so I guess we can listen to our dialogue again yeah let's listen to our dialogue for the third time and this time I'm sure you'll understand it a lot [Music] better um sorry to bother you um my name is Rachel I'm new here can I ask you for a favor hi Rachel welcome on board I'm afraid I can't help you right now I'm getting ready for a very important meeting excuse me but can I bother you for a second you know what I'd love to help you but I'm about to meet an important client do you want to ask Sean instead he sit right over there sorry to interrupt you Sean could you do me a quick favor actually I'm working on a document that's doing a couple of minutes I really can't talk right now sorry about that jeez I just want to know where the bathroom is what's wrong with you people [Music] all right so now you have all the vocabulary necessary the next time you need to ask someone for a favor yes at the office with your friends with your family anyone well everyone we are out of time for today but remember to visit our website at englishpod docomo dialog MH and also you'll find intermediate lessons Upper Intermediate and even Advanced yeah exactly our website is a great resource for learning um Marco and I are always there to answer your questions and we also have lots of helpful users who answer your questions exactly so don't miss out come to 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