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

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

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Submitted by SABAD MOHAMED on Thu, 02/06/2022 - 16:16

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the information of the people on their business card is a Company name, name of a person, content, and title of the person.

Submitted by Daii Saad on Thu, 02/06/2022 - 15:31

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most people in my country have on their business card information like "name"," e-mail address", and "telephone number"

Submitted by diego_s on Mon, 23/05/2022 - 01:21

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Mostly they have a telephone number, an e-mail address, and the address of their offices.

Submitted by josselyngal on Thu, 19/05/2022 - 03:44

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they have stuff like the title of their business and their number or whatsapp

Submitted by Waleed kasem on Wed, 18/05/2022 - 19:11

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when we talk about the business card, we must mention how is important to have one so you can use it for your company.

Submitted by Tayseer Murad on Wed, 18/05/2022 - 13:09

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People in my country have on their business card all important information such as Name, Job title, Address and the company name.

Submitted by khaled67 on Wed, 11/05/2022 - 19:51

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I live in Egypt, and there is a name, company, role, and contact information like telephone number and email address on business cards

Submitted by Nori on Mon, 02/05/2022 - 23:11

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I live in Japan, and there is a name, company, role, and contact information like telephone number and email address on business cards.

Submitted by Souhaïb MGHARBI on Sat, 30/04/2022 - 16:25

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In my country, the most information is showing on people's business card is : the name of the owner, job title, job position ( country and city, street name )

Submitted by badboyzz on Tue, 26/04/2022 - 11:49

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İn my country's people always write on business card communication info, company name and job position.