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

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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

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Global Engineering Consults

Megumi Tanaka

Product Manager

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MaXtin Ltd

Andres Mulligan Jr

Intern, R&D team

Task 1

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Task 2

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Discussion

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

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A1 Elementary

In my country, Turkey, people generally write their business number, company address, name and surname, and job title on their business card. Greeting from Turkey !!!

In my country, business cards usually included the company name, the person's name and position, their professional email and phone number, and the company address.

Why is false "Megumi thinks her real name is difficult to say."?

My countri use the presentation card in some position, for example Managers or Director or workers to sales area.

The electronic card is also used in the cel phone or oulook.

The card contains: Mr, Ms,Phd, Dr, Ms Name, position, email, cel phone, and academic grade in academics enviroment.

Hello JVM,

Megumi says "...people who are not from my country think it's difficult to say my name" - she doesn't say that she thinks it's difficult.

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

they have their name, company name, position, phone number, and email address on their business cards.

Generally, in my country, people have their name, company name, position, phone number, and email address on their business cards.

A. In my country the people d´ont usually use this cards. Anyway, but it´is interesting learning for this cards.

B. These cards aren't commonly used in my country. Anyway, it's interesting to learn about them.

Which of the two sentences is better written? A or B?

Hello ahnacoff,

First, there are a few errors in the first sentence. It should be as follows:

In my country people don't usually use these cards. Anyway it is interesting learning about these cards.

As corrected, both examples are possible. However, I think, the second sentence is better stylistically. The first sentence repeats the phrase 'cards' and has the rather clumsy 'usually use' phrase as well.