CareerTalkLab — Professional English for Global Careers

This review covers your daily work life! We practice talking about your routine, your skills, and the things that belong to you and your colleagues.

Breakroom

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Presentation

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Urgent

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Mine

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Yours

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Start

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Always

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Code

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Productive

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Quick

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Effort

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Focused

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Stressed

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Relaxed

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Calm

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Normal

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Hour

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Minute

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Practice Exercises

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

I have an task. I must finish it now.

Where do you go to drink coffee and take a break?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

This phone is . My name is on it.

What do you say if you never arrive late?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Always press Ctrl+S to your work before you close the file.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Can I this document with the marketing team?

What do you look at on your desk to read documents?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Who is the of this laptop? It is on my desk.

Which sentence means you go to a meeting?

💡 Hint:Elevated L1 transfer difficulty (15% - 20%). Highlight the target word (e.g. preposition or pronoun) in a pre-exercise reading prompt.

Our team meets on Monday mornings — every week, at 9.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

I check my email in the morning. (habit)

Who does a laptop belong to that is yours?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

In the I have meetings and lunch.

A 'productive day' means...

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

The meeting is 30 long.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

We hit the sales a full week before the quarter ended yesterday.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Please review slides before the all-hands tomorrow morning at nine.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

The conference room projector has trouble connecting to laptops.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Could you the meeting agenda with the rest of the team?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Maya the weekly meeting for the design team every Tuesday.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Please send a quick on the budget review by Friday afternoon.

Roles, duties, and your desk

In a productive office, every team member has a clear role and a list of duties. The senior engineer is responsible for the build pipeline. The junior engineer's main responsibility is to handle the daily code review queue. The product designer has the duty to edit the marketing copy before it goes live, and the digital marketing lead writes the weekly note to clients.

On my desk, the basics are simple: a clean monitor, a black mousepad, and a small notebook. The spare cables are over there, in the small drawer. If you need more, the office supplies are next to the printer.

Which word means a small soft pad you put under your computer mouse?

Which word means a person who must take care of a task?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Could you the typo on slide three before the meeting tomorrow?

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

The new printer is , on the table next to the window.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Anna the new client account because she has done this work before.

💡 Hint:Stealth Grammar: English sentences require an explicit verb (is/are) and article (a/the), unlike Turkish. Use the word bank below.

Each engineer has the to test their own code before the release.

Great progress! You have finished the workplace review. In the final arc, we focus on present actions and looking ahead.

Review: Workplace

Practice Exercises

Roles, duties, and your desk