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Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Fay Faye.

And I'm Roy. I hear you're on holiday next week. I bet you're really excited about a lovely holiday

and not having to think about work for a whole week.

Well, I'm going to the beach, but I'll still be working. I'm going on a workation.

All right. Well, I feel like I've been on a workation since March, to be honest honest because I haven't been to the office in months.

No Roy, you've been working from home.

A workation involves you going somewhere where you might go on holiday, like a beach, but working your normal routine.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. It's a portmanteau or a combination of two words work and

vacation. So that means you'll be working as normal then? Yes of course.

Which means that there will be no office parties while I'm away.

Right, so I guess that means I should send an email to cancel the office Olympics while we listen to some examples.

She spent the day working from the hotel bar and at night she visited the local

area. She really enjoyed her workation.

I'm going on workation next week to be closer to nature while I work.

Hopefully the internet will be good.

My workation didn't go as planned as it rained the whole time I was away.

I didn't manage to see or do anything fun. This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking

about the expression Workation. Workation is a combination of the words work and vacation and it refers to a holiday

where you go to another location but continue working as normal.

Yeah, so you could go somewhere like a beach,

skiing resort or tourist area while working.

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