Business cards

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

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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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A business card in my country contains: Organization/Company name with logo Name of the person Position Contact: mobile, phone number, email, Fax, address.

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Which information do people have on their business cards in your country? In my country bussines card have the person name, phone number,addres

In my country a business card contains: the logo of the company, company name, the name of the person, his job title, his contact details such us email, phone number, address and the web site. I think these are necessary information but you can write other information like a slogan or a skype name

The details that you usually find on a business card in my country are: company name , person's name and their designation, contact no, email id. Now a days you also find details of company's website and skype name.

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