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

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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

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*Space10 Designs*

Alessandro Rossi

Lead Programmer

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Global Engineering Consults

Megumi Tanaka

Product Manager

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MaXtin Ltd

Andres Mulligan Jr

Intern, R&D team

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Task 2

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Discussion

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

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A1 Elementary

Also busines card contains logo for company in our country

In our country most people's business card contains name, surname,emal,phone number for contact and company name which they worked or working.

On most business cards, there is the logo of the compagny, the full name of the employee,the position they occupy,the adress of the office, telephone number ,fax, an email.

in my country the business card must contain : full name , logo of the company , name of the post , the date of joining the compnay .

It's an interesting question, well in all fairness i think i would have to say that it really depends on a person what exactly to put on his business card, OK to be more direct some information which can be found on business cards in my country are : the identification of person, the logo of his campany, his occupation, his contacts emailadress and his picture just above of his business card.

In my country most people on their business card have logo, full name, the position they occupy at work, phone number and email address. Some people have their photos on it.

Here, my business card contains the full name, grade and society

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.