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

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?

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A1 Elementary

I’m from Ukraine. Here the business cards usually contains name, surname, professional status or degree, phone number, address and, sometime, link to the social media accounts or QR code

Regularly Business cars have First and family name, Occupation, phone number, and E-mail

I don´t know. I have never seen a business card where I live. But I suppose a business card should have your name, your position in your work and your email and phone number

I'm not sure about business cards in my country. The information that I know that included in business cards are name and address of company, name of person, position in the company, email address, and phone number.

Business cards include information about their sevice, names, profits, pictures,contact numbers

in my country business card containing on( name of Person , email address number of phone, name of job and name of company )

in my country business cards incluide the information about the business person

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.

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