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

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

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 German on Fri, 08/01/2021 - 23:59

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The information that the people have on thier business cards is the name, the company, the profession and the telephone number.

Submitted by ghaila on Fri, 08/01/2021 - 18:08

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There phone number , name and the name of the company

Submitted by abdiaziz matan on Thu, 07/01/2021 - 06:50

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Well, in my country, the business card contains: the company name, address, email and phone number.

Submitted by karinaelizabeth on Wed, 06/01/2021 - 23:29

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In my country business people are accostumed to print in their business card information such as phone numbers, addresses and information about the factory's products

Submitted by leonlo on Wed, 06/01/2021 - 21:27

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Generally in my country business cards have Contact Number Email Adress website Name Name of profession

Submitted by Suraj paliwal on Sat, 26/12/2020 - 04:13

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In my country business cards contain contact number company name and location that's enough. If any individual business card then he/she include his/her name and position in the company. In my country contact number is the most important consideration in business cards. Usually, a business card about three or four different contact number.

Submitted by May Sabai Phyu on Thu, 24/12/2020 - 15:19

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Name, address and company name Position

Submitted by glen on Sun, 20/12/2020 - 19:47

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Company name, address & contact information ( it includes name and profession).

Submitted by Sadflute07 on Thu, 17/12/2020 - 20:25

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The usually information in the business cards are name position company name phone number email

Submitted by Tatiana barrera on Tue, 15/12/2020 - 14:24

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In my country the basic information that the people do in their business card is: Full name(or name and last name) phone email address Name's job on the company