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 Eskafeca on Fri, 20/02/2026 - 12:29

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My colleague's name is Rocío. She's short and talkative. She's a Spanish teacher, just like me. I like her a lot.

Submitted by Eng_salma on Thu, 19/02/2026 - 20:01

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Iam working in a lab

I have 4 collegues.

The first woman is in her forties, she always derss short dress even in the winter. She never feel cold. She is tall, slim and has a short black hair. She is working with me in the same project.

The other one is a short slim man. He is in his twenties and he will become 30 soon. He has a black hair that he really taking care of it every day, and wearing weried blue lenses. He works in the other project with the other 2 collegues. For the other 2 girls i have that girl with curly hair and glass.She has a medium height, and slim. She realli eats alot of food but she never gain weight. Thats amazing!. The other one is fat girl with wayvy hair and glass and a really bad personality.

Submitted by moaz_shamekh on Fri, 19/12/2025 - 20:23

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I have three close colleagues in my university, the first one has carly brown hair, and small moustache with beard, he is a little bit tall and has a good frame (I mean he's fit person), and the second one usually wears glasses, and he also has a good frame, but he is thinner than the first one, finally, the third one (the closet one to me) was overweight, but he has an incredible transformation and he is now a little bit fit and he goes to gym constantly, I really appreciate his efforts, and I'm happy to had these guys in my life.

Submitted by Mutlu A. on Sat, 22/11/2025 - 11:01

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l have many colleagues  in my office.  Some of them are short some of them are tall but everybody is talkative and succesful. Because we need to explain the sales goods

Submitted by Eman Bilal on Tue, 21/10/2025 - 14:07

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Yes, I can. 

Maram is the office secretary. She is responsible for managing calls and appointments, and also for printing documents.

Submitted by Moshtaqmo on Fri, 03/10/2025 - 00:58

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my colleague is friendly person always make me laugh f he is have three childs he is taller than me and always wearing formal clothes but he looksf like better i have another friend silly colleague  always make joke during the lesson this is make me angry becauce i want focus for lessons but he never leave s me alone

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Submitted by VIKO- on Fri, 25/07/2025 - 22:15

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In my office, I work with one person. She is very special and hard-working.

Submitted by Mona_jamal on Thu, 17/07/2025 - 11:04

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

I'm studying medicine so I have so many colleagues at my medical school  all of them are kind and friendly also very smart .

We are pre-graduation ,this is our last year . Due to our hard working and always busy we keep wearing comfortable clothes like T-shirts,skirts ,wide pants and snickers add to that Scrub during the duty 

Thank you 

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Submitted by Crist.ns43 on Wed, 02/04/2025 - 10:16

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Today I have three work colegues. Anne is the most difficult, she is older than me and sometimes is very rude. Luiza is a young women, fat and long black hair. She works with Anne, they are many problems working together. Raphael is the most young of us and the most lazy too. He always think that he work a lot, but never finish a task.