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

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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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In my country, business cards include the informations about the person; his name, his position in the company and also the company name and their website.

hello I think modern business card have a general informations about company. Important is name of a person his position, company name and website which provide to details about company

The people who have a job in my country Turkey, have their name, surname, position in the company, the name of the company, the address of the company, phone number, cellphone number, personal e-mail address and web site of the company on their business cards.

In my country, a simple business card include these personal information; Name, Surname, the name of the company, the job position, phone number, and email address.

I am not sure but according to some business cards I have seen before in Vietnam. I can say that there are some below: address of the office some icon of their field company name telephone number and cellphone number email address and so on....

In general business card as the information below: company name Surname and name of the person His position to the company Office Telephone number/ cellphone number Email adress

Recently I see some business cards with a face picture with the name.

Hi everyone, in my country, the business cards are containing Name of person, job title, the company name, address, phone number, email to connect with them.

hello in my country business card contain their job and address phone number and email to conect with them

I guess it's business cards are the same in all countries. We use business cards to introduce ourselves, creating new business connections. So you have to share your name, phone number, e-mail, company's name and job title.