A voicemail message

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.

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Average: 4.4 (397 votes)

Submitted by GONAJALIS on Wed, 14/12/2022 - 05:49

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Yes, I have made phone calls and voice messages in one of my previous jobs.
There we told them the reason for calling and ended up leaving a phone number and email address, just shown in this section. However, I found this whole information quite useful, it refreshes my knowledge and memory.

Submitted by Sara-adel285 on Sat, 10/12/2022 - 14:50

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No i have never leave phone call or voice mails before but i have practice the language before in an course before but i was very nervous and afraid of saying something in a wrong way .

Submitted by FeliipeAndresA on Thu, 08/12/2022 - 20:26

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I never leave messages.

Submitted by ahmedelkhawaga on Tue, 06/12/2022 - 21:52

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it is a good activity

Submitted by goodenglisheli on Fri, 02/12/2022 - 15:58

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Really good listening

Submitted by storm18 on Fri, 25/11/2022 - 04:20

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No, I didn't. In my native language, I also didn't leave any message because I'm not good at speak so I am a little bit lost my confidence

Submitted by Hajer ABBES on Thu, 24/11/2022 - 18:21

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No. I have ever make phone calls or leave voicemail messages in English.

Submitted by Haje_tj on Tue, 15/11/2022 - 03:30

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I speak not very fluently but yeah i did talk to in English some friends.

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