Business cards

Listen to four people talk about their jobs to practise and improve your listening skills.

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

Preparation

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Transcript

A

A: Hello, Doctor Miller. It's nice to meet you.

B: Please call me Peter.

A: OK. Are you a medical doctor? It must be helpful when you sell medical equipment.

B: Actually, no. My doctorate was in electronic engineering, but it's still helpful for me when I sell our equipment.

B

Good morning, everyone. I'm happy to be here today to tell you about our new project. My name is Alessandro Rossi. I'm the project leader on the Starlight programming project.

C

Pleased to meet you. Here's my card. My real name is Megumi Tanaka, but people who are not from my country think it's difficult to say my name, so I use another name, Meg, when I'm working internationally.

D

Hello, everyone. My name's Andres Mulligan. I'm very happy to be joining this team for the next few months and learning more about research and development.

Reading text

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DX Medical Equipment Ltd

Dr Peter Miller

Sales Director

2

*Space10 Designs*

Alessandro Rossi

Lead Programmer

3

Global Engineering Consults

Megumi Tanaka

Product Manager

4

MaXtin Ltd

Andres Mulligan Jr

Intern, R&D team

Task 1

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Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?

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In my countries, business card must be have company name, full name ,moblie phone no ,postsition and email address, some guys will show their degree behind the business card.

in my country business card must be contian some information as below name comany and product position and name person whow contact with name firm and logo for company website and email address for company and person.

In my county Bussines cards must have these information; Name of the company, their logo, email address, number contact, names of the person who you can contact, and information abou service or product that they are offering.

I'm not see business card before it

Business card in my country contain Name of person, his post, mail id and contact Name of firm, logo, website, mail id, office contacts

In my country, the same that in England (that means name, position in the company, name of the company) plus phone number and email.

In my country, Business cards must have information is Company name, logo, website address, email address, contact number and name of contact person.

In my country, people usually have their names, companies, phone numbers, emails and maybe some quotes on their business card

In my country the business card usually has academic degree, full name, the logo of the company , name of the company, telephone number at the office and personal number, the email