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

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

Task 1

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Submitted by umarsaani1987 on Tue, 23/05/2023 - 14:44

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In my country, people do have information on their business card is name,title,mobile number,company name and email address.

Submitted by ELVIS MOKOM on Fri, 19/05/2023 - 18:57

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In my country a business card require a name,phone number,address,goads /service offered.

In my country, people do have information on their business card is name,title,mobile number,company name and email address.

Submitted by Sandy1325 on Sat, 06/05/2023 - 12:25

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The full name, phone number, email, company's name, position are usually written on the business cards in my country.

Submitted by Tô Giang on Wed, 19/04/2023 - 23:17

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In my country, you need provide these information such as Full name, email, mobile number, company name, job position, company phone number, web,... to make a namecard

Submitted by Regipod on Tue, 18/04/2023 - 08:13

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It's depending from situation. If required some minimum-only name, but sometimes all kind about name, company, position.

Submitted by hoangnguyen100587 on Fri, 14/04/2023 - 16:45

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The business card has name, phone, email, address of company

Submitted by esteban_vera on Tue, 28/03/2023 - 12:31

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The business card has ID, Name, Date of birther, gender

Submitted by tudk on Mon, 27/03/2023 - 10:20

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Hard to listen when Megumi was speaking

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Submitted by guillermot on Sun, 12/03/2023 - 13:57

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Greetings to all from Argentina.

I have a question:

In task 1 the choice of "Megumi thinks her real name is difficult to say.
" That's not true ?