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How to talk to coworkers in English | Small talk in the office

If you like our work, consider supporting us at patreon.com/BreatheEnglish Many people study a language for years and never learn this basic skill - making small talk! Small talk refers to short conversations that happen spontaneously throughout the day, including when greeting or saying goodbye to people, and during random encounters. Being able to handle these situations gracefully is even more important in the office, where small talk is common between colleagues. In this English lesson, an alien is sent to Earth on a mission to discover how to talk to coworkers in English. She reports on her findings about small talk in the office to the leader of her planet, who is amazed at the strange customs on planet Earth. Watch and learn along with them! KEY PHRASES How’s your day going? How’s your morning so far? Busy day? Slow day? Can’t complain, I’m doing alright, A bit slow What you got going on this weekend? How was your weekend? Got any weekend plans? No big plans, just staying local, bumming around town The weekend was a bust Working hard or hardly working TGIF Case of the Mondays The grind Pick your brain Swamped up to my eyeballs slammed Back to back meetings / conference calls Packed schedule Tight deadline Rain check Website: breatheenglish.com Email: erica@breatheenglish.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/breatheenglish/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/breatheenglishllc LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/breathe-english Timestamps 00:00 Small Talk Mission 00:37 Checking in 1:50 Asking about Weekend Plans 3:19 Asking how the Weekend Went 3:50 How busy we are 4:43 Rain checks 5:13 Cliches 7:00 Coffee Photo and video Credits Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash Video by fauxels: https://www.pexels.com/video/men-and-... Video by Pressmaster: https://www.pexels.com/video/woman-di... Video by RODNAE Productions: https://www.pexels.com/video/young-pr... Video by Mikhail Nilov: https://www.pexels.com/video/coworker... Video by Kelly: https://www.pexels.com/video/splatter... Video by Klaus Nielsen: https://www.pexels.com/video/woman-ra... Video by Karolina Grabowska: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-... Music Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Good Times Patrick Patrikios Sugar Vibe Tracks Robots and Aliens Joel Cummins Sound Effect from a href="https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/?ut..." #learnenglish #eslteacher #smalltalk