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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There phone number , name and the name of the company

Well, in my country, the business card contains: the company name, address, email and phone number.

In my country business people are accostumed to print in their business card information such as phone numbers, addresses and information about the factory's products

Generally in my country business cards have Contact Number Email Adress website Name Name of profession

In my country business cards contain contact number company name and location that's enough. If any individual business card then he/she include his/her name and position in the company. In my country contact number is the most important consideration in business cards. Usually, a business card about three or four different contact number.

Name, address and company name Position

Company name, address & contact information ( it includes name and profession).

The usually information in the business cards are name position company name phone number email

In my country the basic information that the people do in their business card is: Full name(or name and last name) phone email address Name's job on the company

well, in my country, the main card having 3 things 1- the name 2- the number 3- name of profession the name to know who is the person, the number to know who is if the name wasn't there, the name of profession is to know where he is working