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

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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

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Submitted by AMINA.BH on Thu, 24/04/2025 - 15:59

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in my country , the business card include ful name , speciality, name and logo of the company, adress, email, contact num .

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Submitted by Atiqur Rahman on Mon, 14/04/2025 - 02:52

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Dear All,

Could you tell me how to download the audio? I am a learner's here.

Thank you 

Hello Atiqur Rahman,

If you're using a computer, you should be able to right-click or press on the audio player and then choose 'Save as ...'. 

I believe it's also possible on mobile devices, but just how you do it depends on the browser and operating system.

Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team

Submitted by Natalya_01 on Tue, 25/03/2025 - 15:07

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A common bussiness card in my country will include full name, date of birth, address, position, contact info, company info,... Overall, an impressive\ card should be concise and clear.

Submitted by jocabed on Tue, 11/03/2025 - 21:17

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Business cards in my country usually include information such as the person's name, the department or area they belong to, and their position.

Submitted by Sa Wan on Mon, 03/03/2025 - 08:08

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Task 1

No 5

Could you explain why the answer is false. I think it's true.

Hello Sa Wan,

Megumi says:

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.

She says that other people think her name is difficult, but she doesn't say that she thinks it's difficult.

Perhaps I'm being too picky, but that was the idea behind this question.

Does that make sense?

Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team

Submitted by Eng.Maysar on Sun, 02/02/2025 - 10:47

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Which information do people have on their business cards in your country? 
In my country a business cards of people it has their name and their company , email , phone number , address

Submitted by butachi on Thu, 26/12/2024 - 07:27

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Hello, My name's Hung. In my country, also have some companies using business cards. Information on the business cards have full name, mobile number, address, and position.

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