Welcome to a new episode of English Vocabulary Booster.
My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA certified English teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new English words or expressions, so that you too can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning!
Hello you guys, what is up?
It's currently Monday morning, so I'm pre-recording this.
There is so, I know I always say this, but it's true, there's so much going on.
I'm also leaving in a couple of days to go on a trip with my boyfriend in a van, so I'm not really sure what it's going to be like.
You know, if I need to record an episode or Or if I need to shoot a video.
So I'm just trying to get as much as I can done before I leave.
Anyway, let's talk about today's episode.
And today we're going to talk about meetings.
No, boss.
I can do it.
I know I'm driving.
I'll just use the Google Assistant.
Of course I know how to do it.
Don't worry, boss.
I got it.
Okay, Google, schedule a meeting for Tuesday at 3.
Meeting scheduled for today at 3.
No, not today.
Ugh.
Okay, Google, put off the meeting, please.
Would you like to reschedule the meeting?
Yes, reschedule for Tuesday at 3.
Great.
Your meeting has been moved up.
Your meeting is in three minutes.
What?
No, no, no, no.
Okay, Google.
Ugh, forget it.
Just cancel it.
Call it off.
Got it.
Calling mom.
What?
No.
No.
So it was actually one of you guys that gave me this idea, because one of you reached out to me via email and said that I sound like their Google assistant, which I thought was very flattering, by the way.
And so I thought, you know, why not write a story about that?
So here it was.
Let's look at expression number one.
Schedule.
Schedule a meeting for Tuesday at three.
If you schedule a meeting, do you plan it or do you cancel it?
If you schedule a meeting, you plan it.
And what things do you need to keep into consideration when scheduling a meeting?
The time, the day, or both?
You absolutely need both.
If you want to schedule a meeting or if you want to schedule an event, you're going to have to know when it happens, and I mean the day on which it happens and also the time.
Otherwise, nobody's going to show up.
What was the last meeting or event that you scheduled?
Oh, my gosh.
I just remembered I need to schedule a meeting for Monday.
So it would have to be – well, I'm going to schedule an event, I hope, in the next five minutes.
Well, as soon as I'm done recording this episode because otherwise I'm going to forget again.
But I have to schedule a meeting with another teacher.
This is for my old job.
I forgot.
I don't know if I told you, but I quit my job and I spoke about it on Instagram and.
But yeah, I still have a couple of things that I need to finish working on.
So I do have to schedule a meeting for Monday.
Expression number two, put off.
Put off the meeting, please.
If you put off an event or a meeting, will this happen before the time you had planned or after the time you had originally planned?
If you put off a meeting, please.
It will happen after the time that you had originally planned.
It can be a few hours later or it can be a few days later or even a whole year later.
It just means that it's going to happen after the date or the time that you had originally picked.
Have you ever had to put off an event or a meeting?
Why?
Uh, yes.
I mean, it's happened to me a bunch of times.
Obviously, things come up, you schedule an event, and then you can't make it to that event.
So you have no choice but to put it off.
I don't like doing it because I feel every time you put off an event, obviously it has repercussions on other people as well.
But I think the last time was probably a few months ago.
So it was a while ago.
And I had to meet up with a colleague from work.
Her name's Lisa.
But I was running a bit late.
So I asked her if we could put it off.
And we just met, I think, an hour later or something like that.
Expression number three, reschedule.
Would you like to reschedule the meeting?
If you have to reschedule an event, does the event take place as planned or not?
No, if you reschedule an event, that means that something changes about that event or that meeting.
And if you reschedule a meeting, will it take place before or after you had originally planned?
If you reschedule an event, it just means that you change the date or the time or both.
So we don't know if it's going to happen earlier than planned or after it was originally planned to happen.
But we just know that the date and time for both are going to change.
How do you feel when you have to reschedule an event?
Like I said, I've already told you.
I feel really bad because I know that it affects other people as well.
And I don't like to be a pain in general.
So I always try to follow through.
And if I do schedule an event, I try not to reschedule it unless I can't help it.
Expression number four, move up.
Your meeting has been moved up.
If you move up an event or a meeting, will this happen before the time you had planned or after the time you had originally planned?
If you move it up, That means that it happens earlier, so before you had originally planned.
So we can say this is the opposite of putting off an event or putting off a meeting.
If you put it off, it happens later than you thought.
And if you move it up, it happens sooner than you originally thought.
Have you ever had to move up a meeting or an event?
It doesn't happen very often, because usually, if something comes up, I'd rather put it off, or put off the event or the meeting rather than moving it up.
But I can give you an example.
So I was planning to go on a trip with my boyfriend in a van, and he was talking about doing it in March.
And at first I thought March was going to be a good idea. or like mid-March, around that time.
But then I realized that that was around the same time when my speaking club is going to start.
And so I thought hold on, I don't want to be traveling, and you know, because then you don't know how good the internet connection is going to be.
And so I thought, you know what, it's better if we do it before the speaking club.
So even though we had already talked about it, we decided to move it up.
And so it's going to happen a little sooner.
It's actually going to happen next week.
Expression number five, call off.
Just cancel it.
Call it off.
If you call off a meeting, will the meeting take place or not?
No.
If you call off a meeting, the meeting is not going to happen.
And why would you call off a meeting?
I don't know, for a bunch of reasons.
Maybe you're sick.
Maybe you're running late.
You're not going to make it in time.
Maybe you just don't feel like it.
Whatever reason that may bring you to cancel a meeting, that's why you would call it off.
When was the last time you had to call off a meeting, or a meeting that was supposed to take place was called off?
I actually had to call off and I felt so bad, but I had to call off an event that I had organized and it was, I think, one week ago.
And so the reason why I had to call it off was because I messed up the time.
So I wanted to plan it and to schedule it for 1130 in the morning.
And so I don't know what happened, but I messed up and I set the time for 1130 pm at night so, and this was supposed to be kind of like a lesson, like an English lesson that I was supposed to teach.
And what's crazy is that I realized I think it was 9 30 at night and I'm getting the message of someone saying hey, can I join tonight's lesson?
I'm like what are you talking about?
There's no lesson tonight.
And then I checked, I realized that I'd set the time for 11 30 and at night
And so I was just like, listen, I'm really sorry, but I'm gonna have to call it off.
I'm not gonna teach at night.
I mean, I love teaching, but I also like sleeping.
So I had to call it off.
I felt so, so bad.
But I felt like I had no other choice.
And that is it for today.
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