BEC情景对话：Scheduling

Dialogue 1

M:  What's on today's agenda?

F:  We have an appointment with customer at 9 a. m,  three interviews before lunch and a project review this afternoon. 

M:  What about tonight? Would there be time for cleaning off my desk?

F:  Tonight we should have time to catch up banquet correspondence. 

M:  Good,  I'm always working against time to get the letters out. 

F:  The project review is a week behind schedule,  what's causing the delay?

M:  We haven't had sufficient amount of time for our review board to meet. 

F:  Can we still meet the target date. 

M:  We should be able to,  even though this part of project was due a week ago,  we can still complete the whole progamme on time. 

F:  Is that so? That's wonderful! We'll be able to cut down on our overtime. 

M:  Yes,  Oh. . . look at the time,  we shoud be in a hurry to make that first appointment. 

Dialogue 2

M:  Tomorrow is going to be a long day! Not only do we have performence review scheduled all day,  but also still have them filed the reports on our department. 

F:  I was thinking the same thing,  tomorrow is going to be a drag,  will you be ready tomorrow?

M:  I've been so busy,  I can hardly keep up a thing because there simply hasn't been any time to get ready. 

F:  So,  what're you going to do? They will do the review whether you're ready or not. 

M:  I will just have the faced performence review on prepared. 

F:  You can't use being too busy as an excuse,  we're all equally busy,  but some of us put it a lot overtime. 

M:  There is more work than there is time!

F:  I know things are specially kayotic now,  but we can't afford to make excuses,  you've got to get better at the meeting deadlines. 

M:  Yeah,  may be you're right,  we should probably quit complaining about our deadlines and get to work,  there's no time to lose now.