Who's who in the office

Who's who in the office

Listen to two people talking about the people in their office to practise and improve your listening skills.

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

Preparation

Transcript

Jani: Welcome to the department, Yuki. Let me show you around and tell you about your new colleagues. I'll introduce you to them all later.

Yuki: Great. Thanks. So, who are those people over there?

Jani: That's the order management team. Luciana deals with the new orders. She's the one with short, dark hair.

Yuki: In the purple dress?

Jani: Yeah, that's right. You'll probably work closely with her while you are learning about our ordering process.

Yuki: Got it, thanks. And who's that over there? The guy who's on the phone?

Jani: Oh, you mean the one by the window? In the green shirt? Ah, that's Ian. He's the marketing director. And that's Maria beside him. She's responsible for the internal IT systems.

Yuki: OK, I'll try to remember all of this. I should probably be taking notes!

Jani: Don't worry about it. For now it's just good to put some faces to names.

Yuki: OK, great – and who do I talk to about setting up my mobile phone with email access? Is that also Maria?

Jani: No, you need to talk to Sebastian who works in communications. He can help you. That's him over there, next to the printer.  

Yuki: Thanks. I'll introduce myself to him later.  

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Submitted by hatice2 on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 07:37

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Can you describe your colleagues? What do they look like and what do they do?

My colleagues are so friendly. We work together and everyone cares their job. Especially Diana. She is multidisiplined at her job. She is tall and has tall and dark hair. She wears formal clothes in work but at the another time she wears sportives clothes

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Submitted by zino on Wed, 21/08/2024 - 18:05

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  • In our Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, there are many types of colleagues, each with their own personality.
  • Our team includes both men and women, each responsible for their own modules.
    I wish everyone success and good luck.

Submitted by rainer_hs on Sat, 17/08/2024 - 10:32

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I have a lot of colleagues, and they are smart and easy, and we also work together. We are in the same team to handle social media, and I love my job. 

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Submitted by Mohamed-Halila on Mon, 08/07/2024 - 11:39

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I have two colleagues with me in the office, Mohamed is the unit manager and Houcine is the new engineer.

Mohamed is short and have 11 years experience in the comapny. Houcine is also short and have brown eyes.

Three of as work together in the same department, we do customer services as installation, maintenance and qualification of analytical instruments.

Submitted by ubaid332 on Thu, 16/05/2024 - 16:51

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Yes, there are many colleagues in my office. Everyone is responsible for their work. One of my colleagues is a frontend developer and the other one name is Faheem that is DB manager. On of my best friend Ali, He is marketing manager. I like all of them. All of them are responsible to complete their tasks on time.

Submitted by Arun02 on Wed, 24/04/2024 - 18:02

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It would be good and more natural if you didn't use AI voice. Please use the human voice. Ai's voice doesn't feel real and is not good while listening because there are many breaks between the words.

Hi Arun02,

Actually, this audio (and all others in the Listening section) does use human voices! We did not use AI voices at all in these recordings.

This speech is realistic for A2 level, which is the level of this page. If you are looking for faster speech, you may try recordings at higher levels.

Jonathan

LearnEnglish team

Submitted by Jim34 on Tue, 06/02/2024 - 17:08

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Can you describe your colleagues? What do they look like and what do they do? Yes, I can describe them, but for some reason, I sometimes forget their names. It can be hard to distinguish them because we all wear the same uniform.

Submitted by DzhusAngela on Tue, 09/01/2024 - 12:07

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In past time I worked in travel company and I had colleagues.They look like just people,because I saw their in free time.But when the tour start I see their biside bus and womans look like flight attendant.My colleagues do the same duties as me.

Submitted by Toan3002 on Fri, 01/12/2023 - 08:22

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I am a student. Currently, I don't have a job.