A voicemail message

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

Instructions

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

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I have completed the following lesson of A voicemail message.The level that I choose was a beginner.

no, i don't have ever leave voicemail, but usually i make a phone call directly

yes, but I can't clearly understand what they said.

Actually, I had lots of interesting calls and interviews over the phone.

No, I never made phone call in English , until now. I'm sorry.

yes i did many phone calls in English , most of them was interviews for jobs . exchange questions and answers about a vacant positions.

yes i do i usually do it when someone is not responding or dont read massages maybe when its hard to write a massage just send an voicemail instead of write a massage