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.
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.
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.