Learning English requires not only mastering grammar and vocabulary, but more importantly, being able to use it naturally in real-life situations. However, sentences in textbooks are often too formal and differ greatly from everyday expressions. To speak authentic and natural English, you need exposure to real-life conversations. Here, we have selected high-frequency daily English expressions covering social, work, and travel situations to help you move away from 'textbook English' and learn the phrases that native speakers actually use. Below is the content from this issue of 'New Cambridge Business English (Beginner) Unit 4a'. Keep practicing, and your English will become closer to real life!
Call one. Good morning, Baker and Kirk, can I help you? Could you put me through to Elaine Pearson, please? Who's calling, please? Louis Taylor of SRT. One moment, please, Mr Taylor. Hello, Mr Taylor. I'm afraid the line's busy. Can I take a message? Uh, no, it's all right. Thank you. I'll call back in about ten minutes. Okay, thank you for calling.The above is a summary from Qicaiwang of 'New Cambridge Business English (Beginner) Unit 4a'. We hope it is helpful to you!
verb
1. make more firm
e.g. Confirm thy soul in self-control!
2. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
e.g. his story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant
Synonym: corroboratesustainsubstantiatesupportaffirm
3. strengthen or make more firm
e.g. The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Synonym: reassert
4. administer the rite of confirmation to
e.g. the children were confirmed in their mother's faith
5. support a person for a position
e.g. The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
adj
1. obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service
e.g. kept a fire extinguisher available
much information is available through computers
available in many colors
the list of available candidates is unusually long
2. convenient for use or disposal
e.g. the house is available after July 1
2000 square feet of usable office space
Synonym: usableuseable
3. not busy
not otherwise committed
e.g. he was not available for comment
he was available and willing to accompany her
Synonym: uncommitted
noun
1. act of expanding in scope
making more widely available
e.g. extension of the program to all in need
2. act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
3. an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
Synonym: extension serviceuniversity extension
4. an addition that extends a main building
Synonym: annexannexewing
5. an addition to the length of something
Synonym: elongation
6. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
Synonym: telephone extensionextension phone
7. amount or degree or range to which something extends
e.g. the wire has an extension of 50 feet
Synonym: lengthinessprolongation
8. the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
e.g. the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension
good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability
9. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
the class of objects that an expression refers to
e.g. the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
Synonym: referencedenotation
10. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
Synonym: propagation
11. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters
the optional second part of a PC computer filename
e.g. most applications provide extensions for the files they create
most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS
Synonym: filename extensionfile name extension
12. a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
e.g. they applied for an extension of the loan