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Listening 6 Listen o his dialogue and choose he orrect answers.
Kathryn: Karim, what do y o u do?
Karim: I'm a (1) website developer/network administrator. W h o do y o u
work for?
Kathryn: I work for CISCO. I'm a (2) system analyst/website analyst there.
Where are y o u rom, Karim?
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Karim: I'm rom Kuwait. I work for Microsoft there. A n d where are o u
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Kathryn I'm rom the (3) UK/US but n o w I live n Qatar. Do y o u now where
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Karim: She's rom the US.
Kathryn And what's her job?
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Karim: She works for (4) IBM/Dell. Her o b is o set up new systems.
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Reading 8 Complete his email w i t h am, is, are, their, our or my.
Dear Colleagues
My name (1) Jessica Martin and I (2). the IT Support team
leader. The IT Support team members (3) Mahmoud Al Banawy,
Eli Ibrahim and Guido Pitteri. Mahmoud (4) our network administrator.
Eli and Guido (5) system maintenance officers. (6) job is to
keep our systems going. (7) job is to support you.
(8) contact number (9) 675 567 567.
Best regards
Jessica Martin
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Writing 9 Write a eply o the email n 8. ntroduce yourself and three people n
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B: I'm from ....
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