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 Phan Bao Dung on Sun, 26/07/2020 - 10:18

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I'm from Viet Nam. In my country, business cards briefly display the basic information of individuals or companies, such as logos, brand names, names, addresses, phone numbers, contact emails, websites ...

Submitted by Alifaraax on Wed, 22/07/2020 - 16:00

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Business card contains first name,surname and position of job if they have to so Business card will give us full information about the person who is the person?what kind of tittle does thos person have to?

Hello Alifaraax,

I'm afraid I don't understand your question. A person's title could refer to their job (Head of Marketing / Chief Financial Officer / Senior Researcher), it could refer to a professional qualification which gives a title (Doctor / Professor), or it could refer to a title granted through a person's position in society (President / Cardinal / Senator).

 

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by I am on Tue, 21/07/2020 - 20:24

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I’m from Ukraine. Here the business cards usually contains name, surname, professional status or degree, phone number, address and, sometime, link to the social media accounts or QR code

Submitted by Ahmad_Khalil on Tue, 21/07/2020 - 10:24

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Regularly Business cars have First and family name, Occupation, phone number, and E-mail

Submitted by Miri85 on Sun, 19/07/2020 - 15:27

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I don´t know. I have never seen a business card where I live. But I suppose a business card should have your name, your position in your work and your email and phone number

Submitted by syah on Sun, 19/07/2020 - 12:09

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I'm not sure about business cards in my country. The information that I know that included in business cards are name and address of company, name of person, position in the company, email address, and phone number.

Submitted by Dastenova Firuza on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 15:04

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Business cards include information about their sevice, names, profits, pictures,contact numbers

Submitted by sara1412 on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 10:13

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in my country business card containing on( name of Person , email address number of phone, name of job and name of company )

Submitted by jonon on Sun, 05/07/2020 - 17:22

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in my country business cards incluide the information about the business person