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Oh, Rory, I love your office.
Did you change something?
Yeah, I did a little decorating.
Um, it needs to look nice if it's my new workplace.
Oh, I see. Let's talk about places we work in or study in.
yes dear listener so the topic is like a place of work or a place of studies so a place where you work or a place where you study do you prefer to work at home or in the workplace uh in the main I really like working from home I don't follow a dress code and I can keep my own schedule I do like to go
into schools from time to time though.
It's good to move around classrooms and interact in real life from time to time.
Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?
Usually alone. I feel like I get more done that way.
When you work in a group, there's always someone who does more and people who do less and I'm almost always the one that works the hardest and I really don't like that.
Similarly, coordinating with others can be a real drag because someone always lets the side down.
What parts of your workplace or study place do you like the most?
I love my desk. It's a standing desk so I can change its elevation at the touch of a button.
That's really good when I want to sit down for work or stand.
I'm a bit worried about my posture these days so it's good to have options.
What's your favourite place to study?
I like my couch for that.
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So, a place of work or a place of study.
You should decide to talk about a place where you work or a place where you study.
Well, you can say that you do both.
You work and you study there.
We work at home or we study at home.
Or we work in the workplace.
Or in the office. Okay, articles.
in the office or you work at work but some of us work from home yeah true i work from home and then you can say i work in the kitchen or i work in the bedroom if i work when i'm in bed rory what do i say like i'm just i wake up and i work i'm lazy no but i do some work but just in bed lying down i work
remotely no but if i'm physically in bed so they say i work from bed oh well you can work from your bed okay you can say i really like working from home or i enjoy studying at home and then explain why i don't follow a dress code so i just yes i may not even put anything on at all.
Just naked, you know, at home.
Oh, look at you, Maria, talking about nudity as if any of that's going in the episode.
I can keep my own schedule or timetable.
So I create my own schedule and I stick to it.
And if you stick to your schedule, then you keep to your schedule or you follow your schedule.
Or you can say that I enjoy working in an office because it gets me more organized, I get to chat with my colleagues.
We can work or study alone or in a group.
To study or work alone, you can also say to work by myself or to work on my own, on my own.
I prefer to study on my own.
And Rory usually studies and works alone.
Why? Because I get more things done.
So to get things done when you do certain things.
So I get more done if I study or work alone.
I'm usually the one who works the hardest.
So I'm usually the one who does all the hard work.
So you can say I don't enjoy working in a group because I usually work hard and other people just like do less do less work so the phrase is i'm always the one like the person that works the hardest yeah what does it mean if you say it's a real drag just that it doesn't do good things for your mood
so something is a drag it puts you in a bad mood yeah or for example you can say like oh working alone is a drag it's kind of like i don't want to do it what other things are a drag a film a film could be a drag what a drag like it moves slowly there's nothing going on it's boring it's a drag and actually
it's c2 is it yeah proficiency C, benign, word.
So if you want to say boring, don't say it's boring.
Say it's a drag. This film was a drag, or like, my work is a drag.
Or you could say it's a real drag, which means it's a big problem.
Or it's such a drag.
Like, writing essays is such a drag.
So boring, unpleasant.
Unless you're me and you do it for fun.
So maybe you have your workplace, okay?
So, my workplace, a place where I work or my study place.
It sounds a bit strange.
Do I really say like, oh, my study place?
I wouldn't say study place.
No. What would you say?
I don't know, actually.
I'd probably just say the place I like to study.
I usually study in the kitchen or just like a place where I usually study.
Okay. And you can say that I love my desk.
So, it's not a table.
If we talk about studies or work, you have a desk.
okay a special desk and Rory has a standing desk I do so he stands while he's working I suppose actually I should call it an adjustable desk because you can change it from standing to sitting so it's not always standing yeah so I prefer studying standing up so I have a standing desk and I can change
its elevation so elevation when it kind of moves like high or lower you know you just move the desk or I prefer to sit down to work I prefer to sit down to study and you can say that I have a special chair and I don't worry about my posture posture is like the way you hold your back my posture like
the way you hold your shoulders neck and back in a particular position.
So kind of you, I prefer to sit down to have a good posture.
Oh no, don't sit down, that's bad for your posture.
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No, if you sit down in a proper way, your back is like straight and you have something against your back, like a pillow.
Yeah, but how many people do that?
No, no one does it.
okay let me adjust my posture now okay yeah i think even as we talk about this everyone is adjusting their posture they're not looking over their phone they're looking up adjust your posture dear listener you you should have a your back straight like sit down nicely my favorite place to study is my
kitchen for example or my bedroom or my bed in rory's case is his couch he's like sofa it's really comfy comfortable so rory can curl up there so if you curl up what do you do oh you just fold your body in on itself so the legs are on the couch and the arms are close to the body yeah you don't have a formal
position like in the office so you just sit there so i can curl up on my couch i can curl up in my bed with my books with my laptop and get down to business.
When you get down to business, you start working or studying.
You focus on your work or what must be done.
I have lots of pillows.
It's really comfortable and relaxing so I can relax while I'm studying or while I'm working.
So nice. Where else do people usually work?
Maybe in a cafe. So if you work online, you can say that, oh, I usually go to a cafe, to a nice cafe to work or study.
Or in a park, dear listener, in summer, I prefer working.
In a park, I sit on a bench, or I sit on some green grass.
I'm surrounded with trees.
Mmm, beautiful. Or in a forest, and you kind of, you study there, you work there.
Do people do that? Yeah, why not?
I mean, I would find it very distracting.
Actually, lots of people prefer working in a cafe.
There are even special cafes where you just go and you work.
Free Wi -Fi and coffee.
You have your coffee, you have your Wi -Fi, you have other people.
Yeah, but it could be noisy.
So you can say like, well, sometimes I work in a cafe, but if it's too noisy, I work from home.
And now Rory's Showtime Vocabulary.
Yes, this is the part of the show where I ask Maria questions about vocabulary I used and she must identify what I'm talking about.
We'll pick one from every question.
So let's start with question number one.
Maria, are you ready?
Yes, I am. Question number one was, do you prefer to work at home or in the workplace?
What was the phrase that I used to describe the rules for what people wear in their workplace?
A dress code. Nice, yes.
A dress code. Do you like dress codes?
No. Why not? They restrict my freedom.
Oh, no. We need freedom.
Question number two was...
That was not question number two.
Question number two is, do you prefer to work alone or in a group?
And I used a word that describes planning and communicating with other people to work together in an orderly way.
But what was that word?
Coordinating. Yes. Coordinating with others.
It's coordinating with.
Question number three.
was, what part of your workplace or study place do you like the most?
And I said that I could change something about the position of my desk, whether it's high or low.
But what was the word that I used to describe this?
I can change its elevation at the touch of a button.
The elevation is whether it's high or low.
And question number four was, what is your favorite place to study?
And I described it as spacious, the place where I study.
But I didn't say it was spacious.
I used a different word or a different phrase.
What was that phrase, Maria?
It's a big open space.
Nice. Yes. But we have a surprise.
Ooh. Oh, no, that's not the surprise.
That's the dramatic piano.
I actually thought that the dramatic piano would be something more dramatic.
But we have a surprise.
There is a bonus question for Maria.
And a bonus question for you.
So Maria, I'm not going to tell you the question.
You will have to work it out this time.
I used an expression or a word to describe something that negatively or describe how something negatively affects the mood.
but what was that word it's a real drag it's boring yeah so 4 out of 4 plus the bonus question well done Maria benign benign hopefully you got 5 out of 5 too thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next super episode bye bye The Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University
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Do you prefer to work at home or in the workplace?
In the main, I really like working from home.
I don't follow a dress code and I can keep my own schedule.
I do like to go into schools from time to time, though.
It's good to move around classrooms and interact in real life from time to time.
Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?
Usually alone. I feel like I get more done that way.
When you work in a group, there's always someone who does more and people who do less, and I'm almost always the one that works the hardest, and I really don't like that.
Similarly, coordinating with others can be a real drag because, well, someone always lets the site down.
What part of your workplace or study place do you like the most?
Oh, I love my desk.
It's a standing desk, so I can change its elevation at the touch of a button.
That's really good when I want to sit down for work or stand.
I'm a bit worried about my posture these days, so it's good to have options.
What's your favourite place to study?
I like my couch for that.
It's quite comfy, so I usually just curl up there with my books on my laptop and get down to business.
It's a big open space with lots of pillows, so you can really relax there.
Thank you.
