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Listening: An Accidental Broadcast

Audiție: O înregistrare accidentală. Ascultă un mesaj vocal înregistrat din greșeală în timpul traficului și află detalii despre discuțiile dificile din cadrul echipei.

Аудирование: случайная запись сообщения. Прослушайте голосовое сообщение, записанное по дороге домой, и выполните задания на проверку деталей разговора.

An Accidental Broadcast

John is driving home in London traffic and dictating a voice memo about Julie and Adam.

Listening: An Accidental Broadcast — Running one-on-ones that matter

An Accidental Broadcast

True or false?

John was pleased with Julie's feedback during their meeting.

  • True
  • False

John wanted to ask Julie about her career trajectory but didn't want to put her on the spot.

  • True
  • False

Adam complained extensively about the legacy codebase during his one-on-one.

  • True
  • False

John realized he was broadcasting his voice note to the dev-team-global Slack channel.

  • True
  • False

John was driving on his way to a client meeting when he recorded the note.

  • True
  • False

Listen again and complete the sentences

  • John: First up was Julie. Honestly, she was supposed to present the database migration roadmap, but her reaction was incredibly lukewarm. I tried to do a quick ____ to see if she was feeling overwhelmed, but she just brushed off my concerns like they were nothing.
  • John: I really wanted to pick her brain about the cloud transition, but she was so guarded. I was about to ask her if she felt her ____ had stalled, but I didn't want to put her on the spot during our short slot.
  • John: Our conversation just seemed to ____ . There's this heavy, unspoken tension between us now, and I hate it. She refused to air a concern directly, but I know something is up.
  • John: He was going to share something ____ —I saw him open his mouth to speak—but then he just shut down. He was to lead the API refactoring, but now I'm worried.

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