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

I did not try to leave a voicemail either in English or in my mother language, because in my country we did not use voicemail a lot, I can say I never have seen anybody using voicemail :)

I think I have never done it

Marina Silva must be Brazilian just like me. This is a very common name in here. Also her accent is very familiar.

I cant find any friends who speak with me english.But sometimes i find a foreign people on social network and i speak with them in English to practice my english language.

Yes, I do it sometimes. Mostly when I want to practise my speaking skills, I call my friends from France and we speak in english because I don't speak french and they don't speak spanish.

No, I never make phone calls in English so I never left voicemails in English.

No, I haven't tried to leave voicemail messages in English, because in my country to leave a voicemail is a very rare thing.

Hi.i often leave a voice message on my friend’s phones if they don’t an answer their phone but in persian language:D becouse i can speack English very well and I don’t have confidence to leave messeage in English.so i i’ll try to improve my skills to learn and write better

Anybody wants to speak English with me. Contact plzz

Hi Jaggu,

Just a reminder to everyone that sharing contact details is not allowed here (see our House rules), but we hope you can practise English with each other by writing comments here on the site. Thanks :)

Best wishes,

Jonathan

The LearnEnglish Team