Chris Pond

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439 appearances 15 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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Learning English For Work · Office English: Help · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Remember, usually people are grateful for help, but in some situations offering to help might be seen as you telling them that they're doing a bad job.

So try to be friendly and polite.

And if someone says they don't want your help, maybe don't insist.

Yeah, and some language that might be useful if you want to offer to help someone.

Could be, Are you all right?

Is there anything I can help with?

Another expression you can say

Did you want me to take care of whatever for you, so you can focus on something else?

Take care of here just means do.

Now let's think about another tricky situation.

One of your colleagues has asked for your help on

But you don't have time to help them.

How do you say no politely?

Another way is you could ask about deadlines.

You could say, Can it wait until later?

I'd love to help, but I have a few other things I need to sort out.

And of course remember every workplace is different, so it might not be up to you to decide which task is more important.

It could be up to your boss.

Next week we'll be talking about logistics.

That's organizing things at work.

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