A phone call from a customer

Listen to the phone call from a customer to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Transcript

Junko: Hello, Junko Mori speaking. How can I help you?

Andrea: Hi, Junko, it's Andrea here from Red Band. I'm calling about our latest order.

Junko: Everything arrived OK, right? We got the delivery confirmation at our end.

Andrea: Yes, everything's fine with the order. I'm calling about the invoice and the payment terms. I need a favour.

Junko: A favour? What do you need?

Andrea: This is a little, er ... difficult, but I need an extension on the payment terms. I know they're usually 30 days, but we're having some cash flow problems. You'd really be helping us out if you could extend it to 60 days.

Junko: I'm not sure if I can do that, Andrea. We've got regulations at our end, and also have to manage our own cash flow.

Andrea: I promise this won't become the norm, Junko. Actually, I also want to place another new order. The same size order as last time. It's for an important customer and they pay on delivery.

Junko: I see. So your cash flow problem will be solved after this new order is delivered.

Andrea: Exactly.

Junko: That sounds good. Hold on, Andrea. Let me see what I can do. Yes, I think we can make an exception this time.

Andrea: That's great, Junko. I appreciate your help.

Junko: And we appreciate your business, Andrea. It works both ways.

Andrea: Thanks again, Junko. Can you send me a quick email confirmation of the payment terms extension?

Junko: Sure, no problem. We're happy to help you.

Andrea: Great. And I'll email you the new order.

Junko: Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. Talk to you soon.

Andrea: You too. Goodbye.

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Task 2

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Discussion

Do you ever do favours or make exceptions for important clients?

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the customer has always right... - in Russia too ))))

Hello, I personally think doing favours and making exceptions are intertwined, since in context, it has to do with "an important client". So, I make exceptions for important or let me say 'favourite' clients...

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Yes. When I had my own mobile shop, I used to do exceptions for clients who had financial issues in order to help them keep using my services that time.

Hello, my name is Roberta, this is the first time I try an exercice like Task 2. I can't do this. I don't understand how I can select all the items. Can you help? thank you very much.

Hello Roberta I'm sorry you found this task difficult to complete. What you must do is always move the phrases by pressing or clicking on the small white hand (on the right side of each box). If you press or click there and then press or click on top of box where you want to move them, they should move. After that, you must always press or click on top of the white hand of the words that are in the boxes. It's actually quite easy, though it can be tricky to discover how it works. Please let us know if you still have trouble. All the best Kirk The LearnEnglish Team

Hi. If we have some problem and it's necessary to solve it, I sometimes do favours for my clients.