Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.
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.
In my country, Saudi Arabia, we put the phone number, the email, and the full name, I think
Hello. Could you please tell my what the grammar is used in this sentence "I'm very happy to be joining this team..". I want to ask about the "to be joining" part.Is it must be to be + Vpp/ ?.Thanks in advanced!
Hi amylee,
This is called a continuous infinitive. It's made of "to be" + an -ing verb form. The continuous infinitive presents the action (joining) as something ongoing and already in progress at the moment of speaking. For example, a person might say this on their first day at a new job, when they are in the middle of meeting people, getting familiar with the workplace, etc.
The simple infinitive can also be used ("I'm very happy to join this team") but this is not necessarily an "ongoing" action. For example, a person might say this now if they accept an offer to join the team, but they will only join the team several weeks later.
I hope that helps.
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
People in my country 🇩🇿 Algeria have on their business cards all important information like name, address, number phone, company name and job.
In my country, spain, the people put on their business card their name and surname, their telephone and their email.
in our country, most of the bussiness man put their name , email , job title and phone number on their bussiness cards.
İn our country most people who are bussiness men write their names ,adress and job title inclusing phone number and business hours on bussiness card
the information of the people on their business card is a Company name, name of a person, content, and title of the person.
most people in my country have on their business card information like "name"," e-mail address", and "telephone number"
Mostly they have a telephone number, an e-mail address, and the address of their offices.