Business cards

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

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

3

Global Engineering Consults
Megumi Tanaka
Product Manager

4

MaXtin Ltd
Andres Mulligan Jr
Intern, R&D team

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Submitted by paimanalinazar093 on Mon, 18/11/2024 - 10:51

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Hi LearningEnglish team, 

I hope your are doing well, how can I find a parter for speaking part to improve my speaking, if the speaker is native better to contact with,

from Turkey,

Hello paimanalinazar093,

I'm afraid that our House rules don't permit our users to share personal information for privacy reasons, but I have a couple of recommendations.

First, you might consider trying one of our online courses, where you can meet other people from around the world studying English, as well as interacting with your teacher in class time.

If our paid classes don't work for you, you could try our community events, which are generally held on Facebook. There you could meet lots of other people who'd also probably be interested in practising their English as well.

Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team

 

Submitted by ShellinaV on Wed, 09/10/2024 - 03:15

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I am from Indonesia. To be honest, it's rare to find business cards where I live, as most people can easily get information about businesses from social media. My father used to have a business card that included a logo, his name, cellphone number, and the services he offered.

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Submitted by Muhammad Najib on Tue, 08/10/2024 - 12:35

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im a student at Tanjungpura University 

in my university in Indonesia we use student card to go to Library, Parking Lot and Laboratorium 

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Submitted by Febrin_Simanjuntak on Tue, 08/10/2024 - 10:30

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Hello! My name is Febrin Simanjuntak, I am a student from Indonesia.

What problem does your business want to solve? Who has the problem?What is the solution?

At my place there are many business problems that cannot be resolved. I'm confused as to why this could happen because I didn't participate in it either.

 

Submitted by Thuy Phan on Fri, 04/10/2024 - 04:49

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The business cards in my country, Vietnam, contain information about the company and the person. 

Company name

Company logo

Company website

Full name

Position

Mobile phone

Email

 

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Submitted by Amr Fayez on Sun, 29/09/2024 - 06:41

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in my country EGYPT a few people use bussiness card , but in general they write 

Their name,job title,contact information

Submitted by NatiAntia on Thu, 05/09/2024 - 15:52

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In Colombia few people use business card, but some people write their names, occupations and phone numbers.

Submitted by Nesrin.Essam on Mon, 19/08/2024 - 19:50

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In my country it's so difficult to get employed in any job , and the information they need is just a routine.

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Submitted by ASSAMOI on Thu, 08/08/2024 - 15:46

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The informations that we have on our business cards in my country are name, adress, email, phone numbers, occupation and company name.