Name: 🎧 Learning English with Podcasts | Episode 027 Malfunction | The Office
Uploaded: 2026-03-25T06:34:29.000Z
Duration: 14 min 9 s
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We have a lesson that's talking about something that goes wrong in the office.

Yes, something that I can really understand well, but we'll talk about that later.

So let's take a look at this word in vocabulary preview.

All right, so a photocopier makes copies.

We often call it a copier, or a copy machine.

Yeah, so you can call it a photocopier, copy machine, or copier.

We can talk about that a little bit later because that's an interesting story.

All right, let's take a look at our next word: toner.

So toner is what the copy machine uses to make copies.

It's a powder, so you don't want to get that all over you.

And our last word in vocabulary preview: malfunction.

I guess mal maybe comes from Latin or something because in Spanish we say mal, which is something evil or not good.

Okay, so I think we can understand malfunction is.

Okay, well, why don't we listen to the dialogue and find out what isn't working properly.

Hey, Carl, can you make a copy of this contract for me, please?

And when you have it ready, send it out ASAP to our sub-branch.

On your way up, can you fax this while I try and fix this thing?

Everything in this office seems to be breaking down.

Is someone playing a practical joke on me?

The elevator has some sort of malfunction.

Okay, so this copy machine is definitely not working properly.

All right, very dramatic here at English Pod, but we have fun, right?

Okay, let's take a look at some of the great language that we saw in language takeaway.

All right, three words for you here in language takeaway.

And we heard all of these in the dialogue.

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🎧 Learning English with Podcasts | Episode 027 Malfunction | The Office

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