A voicemail message

Listen to a voicemail message and answer the questions to practise your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first.

Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

John: Hi, this is John. Thanks for calling. I'm not here at the moment, so please leave a message and I'll call you back.

Marina: Hi, John, this is Marina Silva calling from Old Time Toys. Your colleague Alex gave me your phone number. She said you can help me.

I need some information on your new products. Could you please call me when you are back in the office? My phone number is 0-2-0-8, 6-5-5-7-6-2-1.

Also, can you please email me your new brochure and information about your prices? My email address is Marina, that's M-A-R-I-N-A, dot Silva, S-I-L-V-A, at O-L-D-T-I-M-E hyphen toys dot com.

Thanks a lot. I look forward to hearing from you.

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

Do you ever make phone calls or leave voicemail messages in English?

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A1 Elementary

Yeah i very often call my buddies in English through WhatsApp or just through a simple phone call to have some information about them but when for instance they are not online on WhatsApp i leave a voice message or i can write them messages.

At my job, I rarely have to take some calls in English but I speak it a little bit.

No, never. Where I work, I never speak english. But would be very interesting to begin to speak english.

Yes, I do. I left a voice message to my mother this morning for she bought something for me.

I usually write emails in my job, when I'm asking about information from stakeholders, sometimes a make a call but it makes me feel more confidential if i write email, because it leave me time to check if i write it correctly.

No, I never made phone calls or left voicemail messages in English.

I ever make phone call but I never leave voice massage .Sometimes I text short message

I have never leave voicemail messages in english.

hello! how i can fill the empty blocks on the exerciser sheet?

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