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84. Natural Phrases To Describe People & Teams at Work

15 min • 21 april 2021

THIS IS AN ANNA WITH 2Ns EPISODE BEFORE I REBRANDED TO CONFIDENT BUSINESS ENGLISH. I RECOMMEND STARTING WITH THE MOST RECENT CONFIDENT BUSINESS ENGLISH EPISODES.
This format was really popular last time so here I am with another one. The reason I chose Teams & People is because I noticed that my students didn't use a lot of natural vocabulary when describing these things. In the episode I talk about all of things.

To pull your weight
To gel/click
To be on the same
To be a team player
There's no "I" in team
To step on somebody

Apologies for the terrible analogies! The human pyramid is my latest attempt.

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