Meeting a new team member

Meeting a new team member

Listen to a conversation between two new colleagues to practise your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

Peter: Hi, my name's Peter. What's your name?

Carla: Hi, Peter. I'm Carla. I'm new here.

Peter: Welcome to the company, Carla.

Carla: Thanks, Peter. I'm happy to be here and it's nice to meet you.

Peter: It's nice to meet you too.

Carla: Where do you work?

Peter: I work in the design team. We sit over there.  

Carla: I'm in the marketing team. I started last week.

Peter: You work in marketing? That's very interesting.

Carla: Yes, it is. I'm enjoying it. But there are a lot of new things to learn.

Peter: I'm sure there are. I'm happy to help you if I can.

Carla: Thank you, Peter. What do you do in the design department?

Peter: I design new products.  

Carla: That sounds interesting. I plan marketing events for new products. So I think we'll work together sometimes.

Peter: That would be great. So, where are you from, Carla?

Carla: Brazil. And you?

Peter: I'm from the UK.

Carla: How long have you been here?

Peter: I've worked here for three years but I actually moved here from the UK five years ago, to study.

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Submitted by zahra.rostami on Fri, 20/01/2023 - 09:07

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I talk about everything. Where is he/she from? What is her/his major? Where did he/she work before?

Submitted by lylarv on Thu, 19/01/2023 - 00:00

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It depends on the situation at the time, but i usually start with a eulogy, this helps the person to be more receptive to the conversation or to create a theme for the dialogue.

Submitted by student_w on Tue, 17/01/2023 - 14:56

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When I meet people for the first time, I usually ask about their work, family and favourite activities. After that, to avoid the speech becoming boring, I avoid superfluous questions while waiting for him to ask me questions about my job or my life. Here I answer and ask again about him as long as we know about ourselves better.
However, I avoid asking him serious personal questions that may not be appropriate for the first meeting.

Submitted by Ndrkdbrgnv on Mon, 09/01/2023 - 16:07

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First I ask them simple questions, like where they are from, what they do, etc. Then I ask them about their hobbies or interests to find something in common. To be honest, I'm a listener, so I sit quietly most of the time during a conversation.

Submitted by Luis Ernesto L… on Wed, 28/12/2022 - 22:00

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Firstly I stay nervous, meet a new people can be a impact experience, however I can keep calm and talk about my hobbies, currently I like to talk about triathlon although about it I've tittle experience

Submitted by yassmin hassan on Wed, 07/12/2022 - 09:19

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I asked him about here name,country,stedying,age

Submitted by Parviz.hakimi on Tue, 06/12/2022 - 21:22

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When I meet someone for the first time, I asked mostly these question :
What's your beautiful name ?
What do you do ? Or Are you studying or working ?

Where do you live?
Where are you from ?

Submitted by alnori.79 on Tue, 06/12/2022 - 19:32

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i talk about what a study in college and the age and talk about things not importint like how many person in your family and talk more about them and what's your faivort movei and what kind of the movei you like <<