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 osople on Thu, 03/08/2023 - 11:01

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The most information they have is their name and their title
Sometimes you see their phone number

Submitted by yumiyummm on Tue, 01/08/2023 - 21:28

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A QR code that directs to their Whatsapp, Social media account, or website

Submitted by Milanesa_7 on Tue, 18/07/2023 - 01:47

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Request general information such as full name, telephone number, work experience, e-mail address and date of birth.

Submitted by hedhili on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 07:49

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I think the first name, the second name, the phone number, the name of the company address mail, and the logo of the company.

Submitted by Thanatphati on Mon, 10/07/2023 - 15:15

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Logo or some pictures about their business

Submitted by Jim34 on Sun, 09/07/2023 - 22:01

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I have never seen a bussines card, but i think the information they have includes: name, last name, phone number and email-address, company, title and social media handles.

Submitted by taymor on Sat, 01/07/2023 - 10:14

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name.date of birther.adress

Submitted by Safe_Mode on Wed, 07/06/2023 - 09:38

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Business card contains first and lastname, role in the company and phone number. Sometimes it holds some other contacts.

Submitted by umarsaani1987 on Tue, 23/05/2023 - 14:44

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In my country, people do have information on their business card is name,title,mobile number,company name and email address.

Submitted by ELVIS MOKOM on Fri, 19/05/2023 - 18:57

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In my country a business card require a name,phone number,address,goads /service offered.