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Aug 27
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VACATIONS and HOLIDAYS - Business Englis...

Chris - Breakout Business English
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Taking vacations and holidays is a great break from professional life. However, talking about these to your colleagues and agreeing these with your managers in English can be challenging. Especially if you speak English at work as a second language. Today we'll discuss the vocabulary, grammar, and phrases that we need to arrange our holidays. We'll look at the differences between American and British English when speaking about these things, and we'll talk about emails and email etiquette when going on vacation. 

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Today's examples:

I’ve put in for a couple of weeks at the end of June.

I’ve submitted a leave request, I’m just waiting for the management team to sign off on it.

I’ve got a few days of annual leave left for the year but I think I'll just roll them over. 

I’ll be out of the office until the first Monday in April.

I’m on annual leave next week. If you have any urgent requests then Jane will be covering for me so feel free to contact her and I’ll ensure we have a full handover before I go.

Just to give everyone advanced notice, I’ll be unavailable for the next couple of weeks, and will get to any emails when I’m back at my desk.

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