Listening: The Anonymous Survey
Audiție: Chestionarul anonim. Ascultă un dialog despre un sondaj HR și răspunde la întrebări. Vei exersa înțelegerea auditivă urmărind o conversație naturală între doi programatori.
Аудирование: Анонимный опрос. Прослушайте диалог об HR-опросе и ответьте на вопросы. Вы попрактикуете навыки аудирования, следя за естественной беседой между двумя программистами.
The Anonymous Survey
Molly and Tyler are eating lunch at a cafe in Austin, filling out an HR survey about their ideal IT colleague.
The Anonymous Survey
Listen and choose the right answer
What are Molly and Tyler doing at the beginning of the dialogue?
- Fixing a bug in the codebase
- Filling out an HR survey about teammates
- Preparing for sprint planning
What positive traits do both Molly and Tyler value in a colleague?
- Being supportive, approachable, and proactive
- Being quiet and working completely alone
- Being bossy and managing sprint deadlines
Who do they realize they are both describing?
- Their project manager
- Their QA lead
- Arthur from the backend team
Where is Arthur while they are talking?
- Working from home in another city
- Sitting at the next table behind Tyler
- Presenting at the sprint review
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Tyler: Right, it asks what matters most. For me, they definitely need to be supportive and ____ when things break down.
- Molly: That's true, but I also wrote down that they should be ____ and meticulous with every single pull request.
- Tyler: Oh, that's easy. They can be a bit blunt and sometimes ____ about their architectural decisions.
- Molly: Wait, did you just write stubborn? Because I literally typed out 'extremely stubborn and ____ ' just a second ago.
- Molly: And let me guess, you also mentioned they're ____ and brilliant when production crashes at midnight.
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Această lecție din cursul English for IT se concentrează pe descrierea personalității colegilor din echipele tech distribuite. Vei învăța cum să folosești corect adjectivele terminate în -ed și -ing, precum și adjectivele extreme.
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