B2 · 247 palavras · 2 min
Two Days Early
Uma entrega chega cedo demais, e um procedimento que ninguém escreveu torna-se visível pela primeira vez.
Um texto do dia a dia no trabalho. Repara nos sítios onde o texto separa a causa da consequência — because, which meant that, so that: neste nível, a relação entre duas frases torna-se mais importante do que as próprias frases.
The delivery arrived on Wednesday morning, and it should have arrived on Friday. Nothing about it was wrong: the goods were the goods that had been ordered, the quantity was the quantity on the order, and the driver had the papers. It was simply two days early.
Ayla signed for it because there was no reason not to, and then spent the rest of the morning discovering what the two days meant. The store had space for the pallets only after the Thursday collection. The system would not accept a delivery against an order that was still open for another two days.
None of this was anybody’s fault. None of it was written down anywhere. The order, the collection and the system had been arranged one after another over eleven years, by people who had each solved the problem in front of them, and the arrangement had worked because deliveries came on Fridays.
Radek, who had been there longest, said that the same thing had happened once before, in a year he could not remember exactly, and that somebody had then written a note about it. Nobody could find the note. Ayla wrote a new one and put it where the orders were printed.
The useful part was not the note. It was that three people now knew why deliveries came on Fridays, which none of them had known on Tuesday, and which the supplier, who had moved the date to be helpful, had not known either.
Um clique numa palavra procura-a no vocabulário deste sítio.
- Palavras
- 247
- Frases
- 14
- Palavras por frase
- 17,6
- no vocabulário
- 100 %
- nível medido
- B2
- Tempo de leitura
- 2 min
As palavras a partir de B2 neste texto
Não as palavras difíceis em geral, mas as do teu nível: todas as 5 das 123 palavras deste texto estão em B2 ou acima. Tudo o resto já conheces quando chegas aqui.
arrangement
Gesteck
C1collection
Kollektion
C1pallet
Palette
B2paper
Aufsatz, Fachartikel
B2to fault
beanstanden, tadeln
B2
As listas de palavras deste texto
As palavras deste texto estão em 29 listas deste sítio; o número a seguir diz quantas vêm de cada lista. Quem leu o texto acabou de precisar precisamente destas palavras — e pode praticar exatamente essas.
Perguntas de compreensão
3 perguntas sobre o texto. A cada resposta aparece a frase em que ela está — uma pergunta cuja resposta não se encontra no texto não avalia nada.
1. O que estava errado na entrega?
it was simply two days early
2. Porque é que o procedimento funcionava até então?
the arrangement had worked because deliveries came on fridays
3. Segundo o texto, qual foi o verdadeiro ganho?
it was that three people now knew why deliveries came on fridays