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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Language level

A1 Elementary

I found the exercises to be very dynamic and enjoyable. I didn't find them too difficult. However, I believe I need to improve a little bit and not become overly confident.

Hi, the voice messages were a bit complicated for me, but I am improving with practice and effort.

The most interesting thing for me, is to understand the language with these exercises.

I found this activity very interesting and very useful for learning to listen in English.

Hi, the voice messages were a bit complicated for me, but I am improving with practice and effort

this a great tool, is very easy to listening and the task is very simple to do.
I will recommend this my friends!

I never do that becuse I dont speak english very well

No, but I hope I can leave a voice message later when the language is beefed up.

definitely yes, as it was part of my job in the past, contacting the Belgian company to order spare parts to our weaving machine.