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

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 sawpaing on Tue, 09/07/2024 - 19:42

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In my country, most business cards include the person's name, job position, company name, and contact phone number.

Submitted by Hong Tham on Sat, 15/06/2024 - 08:45

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In some companies I worked for, the business card often have some information such as:

  • Company name
  • Company address
  • Personal name
  • Personal phone , email
  • Personal position

Submitted by khaledmurgan on Sat, 01/06/2024 - 23:41

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Name

company name

Position

Phone number

Email 

 

Submitted by Angel7768 on Sat, 01/06/2024 - 01:18

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Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?

the bussiness cards in my country contain contact information and what services person could offer to the customers
it has a logo and the name of the card owner
In my case I have a bussiness card where I put my contact information and the bussiness name

Submitted by Anna1303 on Wed, 29/05/2024 - 10:22

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i think in a business card may include 

Name

Phone number

Email 

Address

Position

company name

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Submitted by Douglas.amg on Tue, 07/05/2024 - 02:54

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Hi, my name is Douglas and I finished.

Submitted by Nemontes on Tue, 07/05/2024 - 02:45

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Hi I am living in Colombia and this is  a test to see if I can write

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Submitted by Tar Tar on Thu, 28/03/2024 - 13:51

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Well, most of business cards have their full name, their position, phone number, email and their company name.

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Submitted by Joseroberto on Mon, 18/03/2024 - 19:11

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In my country people usually put in their business cards information such as name, position, phone number, email address, the company's name, website and logo, their social media profiles, and headquarter address when it comes to a big or world companies.  

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Submitted by Alleabeth on Thu, 14/03/2024 - 00:26

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In my country is not common people use business card. Cards only are for enterprises o small stores.