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

It is diffult for me to find order. What should I do?

I usually make phone calls and I don't like to leave voicemail messages. Whenever I have something to say, I call to my friends or my parents. But sometimes they are not free I leave a message to call me when they are back.

Well I have never left messages, but voice notes but only to a friend but I would not dare to do it formally because I am afraid to speak, I still do not have fluent English.

Yes, but i feel nervious, and ask myself if they understand my pronunciation, is a good practice

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

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

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

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

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.