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 have the person name, organization, position, phone number, and email. And maybe a slogan.

People have on their business cards information such as name, last name, address, cellphone number, email address, profession and position.

In my country, a business card contains: the name of the person, his phone number, his email, his position, and the name of his company and its adress.

In my country, business cards always contain: name of your organization, address, phone numbers, and email.

In my country business card contains name, phone number, company name and position. But people rarely use business cards.

Recently, I introduce myself online w/o business cards. ;)

Generally, name, contact information (web page, contact number, etc), and profession.

Business people who live in my country add some information to their business cards are as below; Their name Job position Company Name Address Contact phone number E-mail address

in my country, the information from the business cards are the Name, email, phone, address and sometimes the social media of their companies

The information that the people have on thier business cards is the name, the company, the profession and the telephone number.