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.
Generally, in my country, people have their name, company name, position, phone number, and email address on their business cards.
A. In my country the people d´ont usually use this cards. Anyway, but it´is interesting learning for this cards.
B. These cards aren't commonly used in my country. Anyway, it's interesting to learn about them.
Which of the two sentences is better written? A or B?
Hello ahnacoff,
First, there are a few errors in the first sentence. It should be as follows:
As corrected, both examples are possible. However, I think, the second sentence is better stylistically. The first sentence repeats the phrase 'cards' and has the rather clumsy 'usually use' phrase as well.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
In my country, business cards include the names of individuals and companies, phone numbers, and job titles.
done
Thank you for this lesson!
It was a nice listening exercise, thanks.
In my country, people's business cards usually have their full names, the name of their job and company and the information to get in touch with them, such as their email address, phone number, and even their LinkedIn profile.
I think that business card should has Logo of company, company's email, company's phone numbers, and company's addresses
In the company where I work, the service card displays only the company logo, the employee's name, and a QR code.
To get in touch with an employee, you simply need to scan the QR code, then go to the website to contact them and explore other opportunities and options or discuss opportunities.