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Business cards

Business cards

Read four business cards to practise and improve your reading skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Reading text
KPD Foods
Bruno Silva
Head of Marketing
Address: Avenida Paulista 53, Bela Vista, São Paulo, 01311-914, Brazil
Tel: (+55) 11 8134 7706
Getty Telecommunications Ltd
Olivia Hoskins
International Project Manager
Address: 700 Rockville Street, Monroe, New York 10950, USA
Tel: (+1) 845 228 8396
Orion Education Services
Park Ji-Yeon
Director
Address: South Korea, Seoul, Jongno-gu, Sajik-ro-3-gil 23, 30174
Tel: (+82) 2 235-6482
ABC Travel
Rashid Khan
Sales Representative
Address: Hajar Road, Dubai, UAE
Tel: (+971) 4 677 3355

Task 1

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Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

In your country, do people put their surname first or at the end?

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Submitted by Leonardo Lisboa on Tue, 02/06/2020 - 01:49

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At the end, for example my full name is: Leonardo Vinícius Lisboa da Cruz, and I put in my business card just “Leonardo Cruz”

Submitted by Thucuoi on Fri, 22/05/2020 - 04:28

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i am from Viet Nam. My full name is Nguyen Thi Kim Thu. "Nguyen" is my family name of my Dad. so you can see, in my country, people put their surname first.

Submitted by casssioesousa on Sun, 17/05/2020 - 02:06

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In my country, Brazil, do people put their surname at the end. For example, my name Cássio Silva de Sousa. Then, the people can call me Cássio Sousa.

Submitted by mouna99 on Sat, 16/05/2020 - 15:39

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In my country people put their surname at the end

Submitted by Muhammad Bagir on Sat, 16/05/2020 - 04:16

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it depends, in my country, Indonesia, we have so many cultures.

Submitted by Nyanko Neko on Fri, 15/05/2020 - 14:03

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In my country, people always write surname fisrt and then forename at the end . For instance. My full name is Han Moc Thien, with Han is my family name of my dad or mom, Moc is my surname and Thien is my personal name

Submitted by c.lopes23 on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 14:01

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In Brazil, we put the surname in the end

Submitted by Raimbek on Sun, 10/05/2020 - 03:32

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In my country we put surname at the begin

Submitted by Nam on Tue, 05/05/2020 - 14:50

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In my Viet Nam, we put the surname first and the forename at the end. For instance, My full name is Nguyen Dang Hoang Nam with Nguyen and Dang is my family name of my Dad and mom, Hoang is my surname and Nam is my personal name.

Submitted by Djoo on Thu, 23/04/2020 - 03:41

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In Tunisia, we put surname at the end.