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Business cards

Business cards

Read four business cards to practise and improve your reading skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Reading text
KPD Foods
Bruno Silva
Head of Marketing
Address: Avenida Paulista 53, Bela Vista, São Paulo, 01311-914, Brazil
Tel: (+55) 11 8134 7706
Getty Telecommunications Ltd
Olivia Hoskins
International Project Manager
Address: 700 Rockville Street, Monroe, New York 10950, USA
Tel: (+1) 845 228 8396
Orion Education Services
Park Ji-Yeon
Director
Address: South Korea, Seoul, Jongno-gu, Sajik-ro-3-gil 23, 30174
Tel: (+82) 2 235-6482
ABC Travel
Rashid Khan
Sales Representative
Address: Hajar Road, Dubai, UAE
Tel: (+971) 4 677 3355

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

In your country, do people put their surname first or at the end?

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Submitted by mirtha on Wed, 24/03/2021 - 18:50

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In my country, people put their surname name at the end, however some forms require it first.

Submitted by Giuliana on Wed, 24/03/2021 - 01:23

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No actually que name is first and after write a surname but sometimes if someone requests that surname put first (obviously) we write in first of all but always in my country write que name firstly

Submitted by Veronikka on Sun, 14/03/2021 - 23:23

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I'm from Peru and in my country the people write their names and then their surnames.

Submitted by fariba on Mon, 08/03/2021 - 09:12

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no, in my country at first we use second name.

Submitted by TIa vinaka on Thu, 04/03/2021 - 01:50

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In my country, we put our surname at first. when I fill some information in English, I sometimes confused which name to write at first.

Submitted by Brenda Patrici… on Wed, 24/02/2021 - 16:58

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In my country people usually put their surname first, but honestly I would rather put it at the end.

Submitted by Nasywa Shiyami… on Mon, 15/02/2021 - 03:40

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In my country, we put our surname at the end of the name. But in fill the some form, surename put at the first and ended by name.

Submitted by Alex.BC on Tue, 26/01/2021 - 15:11

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In Russia, the name is written on business cards first, and then the surname. In official documents, the surname is written first and then the name.