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A voicemail message

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

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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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Submitted by Hasnae Kh on Tue, 12/05/2020 - 02:28

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it's never I left a voice message in English because I didn't know anybody speaks in English

Submitted by Eduardo José d… on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 12:55

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I'm enjoy with this exercises. I can see too that many peoples from many countries that leave our opiniões. Thank you british council

Submitted by Raimbek on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 03:54

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Yes when I traveling I calling from my room if I want something, be honest it hard to me

Submitted by Cilla Fahik on Sun, 10/05/2020 - 10:19

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To be honest I never do it before, but I realize it's important so I wanna pratice it now

Submitted by Sharif Tayyebi on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 22:10

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New technology, especially social networks such as Facebook, Watsup and so on have made it more easy to get in touch. Now we can leave a voice message or type our requests on Messengers of social network. Email is more formal, I think.

Submitted by Hello from Russia on Mon, 04/05/2020 - 19:20

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Yes, sure! I talk in English with my Brazilian colleagues every week.

Submitted by Fatemeh.Najafzadeh on Fri, 01/05/2020 - 11:00

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I haven’t left voicemail in English yet. but I make a phone call once in a while. I’d like to make a phone call as much as I need, but I’m always afraid about my speaking in English. I suppose, I can’t speak English fluently.

Submitted by Fatemeh.Najafzadeh on Fri, 01/05/2020 - 03:16

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I haven’t left voicemail massage yet in English, but I make phone call once in a while. I’d like to make phone call as much as I need, but I’m always afraid about my speaking in English. I suppose I can’t speak English fluently.