LESSON NOTES

British English Listening

Comprehension for Beginners #2
Rearranging the Office in the U.K.

CONTENTS
2 British English
2 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences

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1. A man and a woman are talking about printers in the office.

2. Where is the old printer?

3. Where shall we put the new printer?

4. Hmm, I think we should put it where the old printer is now.

5. But the old one still works. We're going to continue using it.

6. Okay, so we can't put the new on there.

7. That's too bad. It would be nice to have the new one on the bookshelf next to the door,
but there's only room for one printer there.

8. Okay, then, I think we should put it at the other side of the room.

9. Right. How about next to the window.

10. That sounds good.

VOCABULARY

V oc abular y English C lass

a place of work for non-

office (British) manual work noun

something that isn't new,

old (British) that was created or born adjective
many years ago

something fresh that has

new (British) been created or born very adjective
recently

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 a machine that produces
documents or photos and is
printer (British) noun
often connected to a
computer

to work (British) to function verb

to put (British) to place verb

bookshelf (British) a storage cabinet for books noun

a division of a building that

is usually divided from the
room (British) whole by four walls and a noun
ceiling

a glass opening in a wall

window (British) that lets in light noun

SAMPLE SENTENCES

I live near my office. I threw away old toys in the rubbish.

It's not easy to keep creating new ideas. The printer has a low noise level.

This computer doesn't work. Can you put my camera on the desk?

Can you put this book on the bookshelf? I need to clean up my room tonight.

It's getting a bit cold. Could you close the window, please?

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