Business cards

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

Instructions

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

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

1

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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the main title is the business name, Then some information and examples of their work and the contact information at the end.

In my country on business card people have information like: name, last name, job and contact.

Well, the business cards which is used in my country have the several details alike most of the other country's card such as their name, credit card number, expiry date, their job position, phone number and not to mention the bank name and sometime their email address.

I have completed the lesson for "Business Card". The level I chose is Beginner A1

I have completed the lesson for "Business Cards". The level I chose is Beginner A1.

I have completed the lesson for "Business Cards". The level I chose is Beginner A1

In my country, people have in their business cards: their full names, task, name and address of company, logo of company, number phone.

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I have completed the following lesson Business card. The level that I choose is beginner