A. Now listen to these four business people introducing themselves. Check your answers to Exercise 1. Then match the speakers (1-4) below to their business cards (A-D).

      

 

ASTENA Consulting Group

Akim Anyukov

Accountant

PO Box 103,

St. Petersburg,

193015 RUSSIA

Tel: (812) 275-5626

Tel/fax: (812) 101-4046

E-mail: akim@accounts.ru

 

Habermos GmbH Group

Emma Schneider

Product Manager

 Steintwiete 47

20459 Hamburg, Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 40-56 91 65 56

Mobile +49 (0) 177-7 46 9436

E-mail: eschneider@habermos.de

Tel/fax: (812) 101-4046

RTA Seguros S.A.

Nuria Sosa

Senior Manager

 Ayacucho 3813

(B 1765ETL) Recoleta

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 Tel: +(5411) 4625-1796

E-mail: sosa@rtas.com.ar

 

Shi Jiabao

 

88 Xue Yuan Road, Hangzhou,

Zhejiang Province, P.R. China 310012

 

Tel: (0086-571) 2152433

E-mail: jia@mail.zjzs.edu.cn

 

 

    B. Listen to three conversations. Decide whether these statements are true or false.

 

Conversation 1

1 Patrick Keller is a Sales Assistant.                               True

2 Diana Vincent is a Sales Manager.

 

Conversation 2

3 Hiroshi Ita is Mayumi Nitta's assistant.

4 Dan Marshall is in Finance.

 

Conversation 3

5 Jimmy is pleased to meet Dave.

6 Business is good.

 

Listen again and complete these conversations.

 

From conversation 1

 

A  Hello! …… Patrick Keller.   ….. the new Sales Assistant.

B  Oh, hello.  ….. to meet you. I'm Diana Vincent.

From conversation 2

 

A  Good morning. My ….. Hiroshi Ito.   …… is Mayumi Nitta,

my assistant.

B  Nice to ….. you both. I'm Dan Marshall from Marketing.

 

From conversation 3

 

A  Hello, Jimmy.

B  Hi, Dave.

A  ….. to see you again.

B  You, too.  ….. …..?

A  Not too good.

B  Oh, really? Sorry to hear that. What's the ….. ?

 

C. Match expressions 1-6 to responses a-f.

 

1. Hello. My name is Alex James.

a. Pleased to meet you, Eva.

2. I’m Eva, Maria’s assistant.

b. No. How do you do.

3.This is my assistant, Elizabeth.

c. How do you do. Mr. James

4. It’s good to se you again.

d. I’m fine

5.How are you?

e. Nice to meet you.

6. Do you know Sarah?

f. And you.

 


D. Choose a picture and imagine the role play behind it. Practise this role play with your partner.

 

    

 

   

 

 

E. These people are applying for a job in a bank. Read their application forms.

 

Susan works in Effective Bank. She’s interviewing Michael. Read the conversations. Then practise the conversations in pairs.

 

 Conversation

Michael: - Good morning. I’m Michael.

Susan: Nice to meet you, Michael. My name’s Susan Fox. What’s your surname?

Michael: -My surname’s Moscatelli.

Susan: -Can you spell that, please?

Michael: M-O-S-C-A-T-E double L-I.

Susan: And… What do you do?

Michael: I’m an accountant.

Susan: What’s your telephone number?

Michael: It’s 4089 double 2 double 0

Susan: Thank you, Michael.

 

Practise the conversation with Elizabeth in pairs.