Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.
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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.
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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.
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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.
In my country, the most important information that people are having it on their business cards is : name, profession name or statut, phone number and street adress.
The most important information that we have to include in my country is Full Name (3 parts), work position, mobile number, company name, logo, and location, and work email.
Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?
Thinking about the kind of business card that the people carry to introduce themselves I can say that there are two different types of them, it means that depend on the labour situation of the person.
When a person is working in a company he/she can display a business card showing, firstly, the company’s name, his/her name and surname, the position within the business structure, the phone (mobile phone and office phone) and the e-mail address.
Whereas the unemployed should chance the company’s name for the high level of his/her education, it could be the university degree, and withdraw all the previous details concerning the company (office phone and business structure)
Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?
Actually, In my country nowadays is not common to have business card. After the pandemic everyone just share their own cotact and connect to each other in linkedin or messages.
On the other hand, I think it's may change between industries..
Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?
In my country, Colombia, usually people have on their business cards the degree, their phone number, and their email.
Hi, in my country generally people put their phone number, e mail adress, work phone number.
In Brazil people use in their cards the company's name, complete name, phone number and the email.
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In my country Venezuela we have business cards that include the name of the person or company, their number, email address and where to locate them
In my country, China, the business cards have the below information:Name of person,Position of the role,Phone number,Email,Address of company,Name of company