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

No, I am still learning to speak English, but I am going to record a voice message in English for when I can't answer calls to practice my speaking skills.

No, I don't. I don't have friends to call and leave messages

I never make phone calls or leave voicemail messages in English

Not often but sometimes i speak with foreign people to improve my english.

yes, in my free time i talk in apps for calls and videocall in english, i know their culture and preferences

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.