Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work.
I'm Phil.
And I'm Pippa.
This week we're talking more about business jargon and looking at how people talk about the amount of work they have to do.
Now, you can find a transcript for this episode on our website.
That's BBC Learning English Dot com.
So, Phil, you know what it's like.
You're at work, you've got loads to do, and then someone comes up and asks if you could do something for them, or do you have time for a meeting?
What do you do?
It's a nightmare, isn't it?
Yes.
I mean, some days the only thing that happens is you have meetings and it's like you can't actually get any work done.
Yeah.
And it can be really awkward when somebody asks if you're busy.
And you are busy because you want to kind of be available.
When you're at work, you often kind of want to help people.
You don't want to look like you're turning down work or you're being lazy.
So it's really tricky.
So we need to be able to talk about our workload.
That's the amount of work that we have to do.