Business cards
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.
What are those recordings with such awful English pronunciations????
Did you hire people from India with terrible accents???
We're learning English; we should be listening to recordings of native English speakers or people from the United States!
Dear Daiana
LearnEnglish is for people learning English around the world. Many of our users might never, or at most infrequently, speak or interact with native speakers, since for many years now non-native speakers of English outnumber native speakers by a ratio of at least 3 to 1.
For these reasons, we chose to include different accents in our recordings.
Best regards
Kirk
LearnEnglish team
In Brazil, business cards have simple information.
They have the name and the job.
They have a phone number and email.
Some cards have the company name and WhatsApp.
That’s it.
In Brazil, business cards have simple information.
They have the name and the job.
They have a phone number and email.
Some cards have the company name and WhatsApp.
That’s it.
Done
Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?
To be honest, I have never seen a business card before.
Actually... Maybe I have
When I use the Uber app, sometimes the driver gives me his business card in case I want his services again.
The card has his name, phone number, and the services he offers as a driver
You can find a full name, company, position, telephone number, and email address on a business card. I think this is a standard format, and people around the world use it.
They usually put their full name, job title, E-mail address, mobile phone number, and sometimes the name of the company where they work for.
In Turkey, the person 's advertisement on business card name and surname,telephone number ,e-mail address, company address and job title.