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

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

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*Space10 Designs*

Alessandro Rossi

Lead Programmer

3

Global Engineering Consults

Megumi Tanaka

Product Manager

4

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

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I think my country because my work is good for me and I will have to creat the business farmer chicken and fish

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I think in my country, the business card usually contain, Name, Position, and Contact Number or Email of the person. Sometimes it can also state the address of the company.

No, I don't switch it off! I actually study English on my phone by watching videos with English subtitles and listening to music in English. It's a fun and personalized way to improve my English skills.

thank so much

Megumi thinks her real name is difficult to say. I think the answer is "True". Why is it "False"?

Hello Hoang Thien Thanh,

Megum doesn't say that she thinks her name is difficult to say, she says that people not from her country think this:

...people who are not from my country think it's difficult to say my name...

Therefore the answer is false because it is not what Megumi thinks.

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

In my country, specially in my region , the business cards costume have name of professional, your colocation , e-mail, phone number and social media that a person participe.

i think they should explain why my answer is right oe wrong it is really important