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Listen and decide whether the person is talking to a colleague, a customer or a friend. Situation 1:  customer Situation 2:  colleague Situation 3:  friend Breaking the ice – tick your individual choice. Then discuss with your partner. Questionnaire 1. You decide to attend a presentation by one of the suppliers of your company. What is your main reason for attending? Choose one option. a) I’m going to attend lots of presentations so that I can keep up-to-date. b) I’m hoping to meet lots of interesting people – maybe some of them will be useful for my future career. c) I’m hoping to fall in love. 2. On the first evening, you attend a “welcome party”. You arrive in a large hall filled with about 300 people. They all seem to be talking to each other in groups. There’s nobody that you recognise. What do you do? a) Go up to one of the groups, introduce yourself and ask if you can join them. b) Go up to one of the groups and listen to the conversation. Maybe you can join in later. c) Find where the food is being served and try to start a conversation with someone in the queue. d) Walk around the hall, pretending to be looking for someone. Avoid eye contact with other people. e) Turn around and go home. 3. At the “welcome party”, which of these problems would be worse for you? a) No-one wants to talk to you. b) A really boring person wants to talk to you … and you can’t escape from him or her. 4. Where is the best place to stand if you want people to talk to you? a) In the middle of the hall. b) By the wall. c) Outside. d) By the buffet/bar. 5. What topics of conversation could you use to break the ice with someone? a) How much you hate parties like this. b) The presentation. c) Your work. d) Sport. e) The weather. f) Politics. g) How bad the food is. h) Where you’re from. 04 A2 listening rq4v3n 05 A2–B1 128 Unit 23 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv