Elementary - Can I ask you a favor?
A: Um, sorry to bother you, um... my name is Rachel. I’m new here. Can I ask you a favor?
B: Hi Rachel, welcome on board. I’m afraid I can’t help you right now. I’m getting ready for a very important meeting.
A: Excuse me, but can I bother you for a sec?
C: You know what, I’d love to help you, but I’m about to meet an important client. Do you wanna try
Sean instead? He sits right over there.
A: Sorry to interrupt you Sean, could you do me a quick favor?
D: Actually, I’m working on a document that is due in a couple minutes. I really can’t talk to you right
now. Sorry about that.
A: Geeze! I just want to know where the bathroom is! What’s wrong with you people!
M: Hello English learners! My name is Marco.
E: And I’m Erica.
M: And we’re bringing you another great elementary lesson today. One that takes place at the office.
E: Yes, today we’re gonna teach you some great phrases, so that you can ask people to help you.
M: Right. And I think this dialogue is with a new person at the office.
E: Uhu.
M: So, when you’re new, you always need to ask people for favors.
E: Exactly.
M: Okay.
E: Yeah.
M: So, we’re gonna be asking for a favor.
E: So, Marco, what exactly is a favor?
M: Something that a person does for you.
E: Like a small helpful thing.
M: Ah, Yeah, a small helpful thing, so…
E: Uh.
M: You know, like “can you pass me that pencil”. Maybe that’s even a favor.
E: Yeah, or…
M: Or…
E: Maybe, uh, can you pick me up on your way to work.
M: Yeah, that’s a favor.
E: Uhu.
M: Or even lending money…
E: Yep.
M: To your friend.
E: Yeah.
M: That’s a favor.
E: Yeah.
M: So, that’s what we’re gonna be talking about – favors and how to ask for one.
E: Cause you always have to do this at work.
M: At work, with your friends.
E: Uhu.
M: With your family. So, let’s listen to the dialogue and then we’ll come back and explain all
the vocabulary.
DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME
M: So, a pretty busy office.
E: Pretty unhelpful colleagues.
M: Hehe. I know everyone so busy…
E: I know.
M: They didn’t help this poor girl.
E: Yeah, I hope she found the bathroom.
M: Hehe. Now, let’s take a look at the language from the dialogue. So, let’s start with language takeaway.
Voice: Language takeaway.
E: There’s some great language in this dialogue, wasn’t there?
M: Yeah, a lot of, uh, interesting phrases and words. Um, the first one that… that I saw that was really interesting is on board.
E: On board.
M: Welcome on board.
E: Well, we’ve got some examples of how this phrase is used. So, let’s listen to them to help us understand the meaning.
Voice: Example one.
A: Welcome on board, Sarah; if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.
Voice: Example two.
B: We need to get a new office assistant on board as soon as possible.
Voice: Example three.
C: We decided to bring Melissa on board to join the marketing team.
M: So, basically it means…
E: Welcome to the company.
M: Welcome to the company.
E: Or.
M: The team.
E: Yeah.
M: Welcome on board.
E: So, “on board” is the same as “to the company”.
M: I guess also when you get on a ship, they tell you “welcome on board”.
E: Yes. That’s where it comes from.
M: Or an airplane.
E: Yeah-yeah, yeah.
M: Welcome on board. Okay, let’s take a look at our next word – about to.
E: About to.
M: I’m about to.
E: I’m about to.
M: So, this a great phrase to explain that you’re about to do something.
E: I’m going to do this thing really soon.
M: Okay, so… so, for example, you can say “I’m about to go out for lunch”.
E: Uhu. Or I could say “hey, Marco, let’s go record a show”.
M: I’m about to going to a meeting.
E: Uhu, exactly.
M: Right?
E: Yeah.
M: About to.
E: Going to do something really soon.
M: Okay. The next word we have is instead.
E: Instead.
M: Instead.
E: Instead. It means in the place of.
M: In the place of.
E: Yeah.
M: So, for example, if for a dinner I could say “I’ll have the chicken instead of the fish”.
E: Uhu.
M: Right?
E: Or I can say “I wanted to buy a red sweater, but they didn’t have one, so I bought a blue one instead”.
M: Instead.
E: Uhu.
M: Okay. So, in the place of.
E: Yeah.
M: And our last word for… language takeaway – interrupt.
E: Interrupt.
M: Interrupt.
E: Interrupt.
M: So, when somebody interrupts you, they’re coming and…
E: The talk to you while you’re doing something or maybe while you’re speaking.
M: Or maybe you’re busy…
E: Aha.
M: And people come and… and…
E: Bother you.
M: And bother you.
E: Yeah.
M: Okay.
E: So, interrupt.
M: Interrupt. Okay, some great words here in our dialogue and now we can listen to it again. This time it’s gonna be a little bit slower…
E: And you’ll be able to understand the language a little bit better.
DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (slow)
M: Okay, so, there’re some great ways that you can ask someone for a favor, right?
E: Yeah, we wanna show you some really useful phrases for asking for help.
M: So, let’s start with “putting it together”.
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