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# Office

## Common expressions

* work in an office
* share an office with someone
* get to / leave the office (at 9am)
* ring / call the office
* the office is well / badly run
* use (a room) as an office

## Exercise

### Common expressions

1. I ***work*** in the company's busy Madrid office. It's air-conditioned and very comfortable.
2. I used to ***share*** an office with Irene. She's now in another department.
3. I ***called*** my wife's office three times this morning, but got no answer.
4. My husband works from home. He ***uses*** one of our bedrooms as an office.
5. The office I'm working in at the moment isn't very well ***run*** - the manager is useless. That's why I'm looking for another job.
6. I usually try to ***leave*** the office before 7pm, so that I can get home in time to put the kids to bed.

## Notes

1. Note these expressions:
   1. *I got home exhausted after a hard day at the office.*
   2. *The atmosphere in our office is very relaxed / tense / friendly / formal.*
2. Note the following expressions using office + noun:
   1. *If you need a doctor, you have to call a different number outside normal office hours.*
   2. *I never listen to office gossip. It's usually nonsense!*
   3. *Our office party last Christmas was really excellent.*
   4. *I’ve just been promoted to office manager!*