個人認為ESLPOD這個教材好的原因，除了內容非常貼合日常的實際需求之外，解說也非常的到位，除了能學習到單詞和短語之外，能透過每一個情景的內容更加深入的瞭解到美國當地的文化。

第二節課程講的是工作中檢視郵件和語音的相關用詞，我們知道，在美國的工作環境中，使用比較多的還是郵件，美國人認為郵件可以把工作和生活分割開來，不同於中國人把工作，生活等都一攬子塞進微信當中，美國人工作時會用Email、Slack等的軟體去溝通，從短文中，我們還能瞭解到美國工作文化中經常用到的一些工具，例如Memo等。

Lesson 2 - Checking Mail， Email， and Voicemail

The first thing I do when I get to work each morning is to check my

inboxes[收件箱]

。 I go to the mailroom to check my

mail slot[郵箱]

to see what mail has arrived overnight。 There are always a lot of

intra-office[同一棟大廈之間的郵件]

and

inter-office[同一個公司不同辦公室之間的郵件]

letters and

memos[前四行：寫件人，收件人，主題，時間]

。 Much of it is

junk mail[垃圾郵件],

so I spend a few minutes

sorting[分類整理]

through it。

The next thing I do is to turn on my computer to check mail。 I open my email program and my new messages automatically download into my inbox。 Even though I have a pretty good

spam filter[垃圾郵件過濾器],

I still check through my

trash[垃圾桶]

folder carefully to make sure nothing important was filtered out。 We‘re also not supposed to get personal emails at work， but sometimes my friends send or

forward[轉發]

me messages to this address and I have to make sure I

respond[迴應]

using my personal email address。 When I don’t have time to finish a message or when I get interrupted， I save it into my draft folder。

Finally， I check my voicemail。 I call the voicemail system and enter in my PIN to

bypass[繞過, =skip]

the

outgoing message[語音信箱提示資訊]

。 I have two new messages， and after listening to them， I save one of them and delete the other。

I look at the clock and it’s already 9：30 AM！ It‘s time for the morning meeting。