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 rarely make call in English because I’m not in English speaking environment but I try to speak in English when calling my friends.usually I send voice note on WhatsApp because it’s easy to use.so I used to spent time on voice notes rather than typing the message whole day.the voice notes are easily understandable than text message because we can convey the message and feelings through our voice clearly so l prefer voice notes to message

never, maybe in the future when I'll be good in English ❤️

No. I don't do that.

I rarely leave voice messages in english, I rather wait to have a phone call to prevent misunderstandings. :)

Now, sending Voice messages is so much easy. Because Whatsapp and Messenger came.

No. I only leave messages when the subject is urgent!

Thank you it's very beneficial

No, I never had need to make voice phone calls or leave voicemail messagens in English, but now the company where I work have new costumers that comunicate in English.

Yes.I've sent voice message in the social networks a lot.