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 Andrew Brown on Sun, 29/03/2020 - 17:39

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As I write this comment I have in my hands three business cards. •The first person has the organisations name boldly on the top right corner, her name and tittle, contact info; phone number and email, website address, social media handles and the organisations motto. •Second business card has the givers name boldly written on the top left corner of the card and her job tittle under it, next on the card is her Contacts; email, phone numbers, Skype ID and organisations web address. •Last but not least, again name at the top right corner, organisations name underneath, phone number, location, email and LinkedIn address.

Submitted by Yuzana on Sat, 28/03/2020 - 14:06

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My name, the name of my organization, contact number, position and email address are mentioned in my business card.
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Submitted by OlaIELTS on Fri, 27/03/2020 - 12:20

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The business cards in Nigeria has the following information such as: name, status in the firm, company name, company address, company phone number and their e-mail address.

Submitted by AlejandraIlud22 on Mon, 23/03/2020 - 02:26

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The business cards have the name, nationality, company, address cell phone and e-mail.

Submitted by Diana Avila on Sat, 21/03/2020 - 21:29

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In my country the people have their basic information of identity in this business cards

Submitted by Lakbir othman on Fri, 20/03/2020 - 20:03

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In my country morocco the people use in the business cards the full name and email and professionally and adresse

Submitted by MD ARIFUJJAMAN on Fri, 20/03/2020 - 08:27

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In Bangladesh, We write on visiting cards Name, Designation, Phone number, Email & Company's details.
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Submitted by Sergei Baskakov on Thu, 19/03/2020 - 21:36

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Hello! In my country business cards contain a full name, an e-mail, a phone, a company name, a profession

Submitted by Ali lak on Sun, 08/03/2020 - 17:45

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Hi, my business card has some informations like my name, company's name, my professional, matriculation and my photo.