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Telephone Inquiries - LINC 1.08

Published on Monday, August 27, 2012 in , , , , ,

Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
All   ·  won't   ·  this   ·  isn't   ·  He'll be back   ·  Can I take   ·  there   ·  I'll call   ·  help   ·  I'll call back   ·  will   ·  no  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
MANUEL: Anthony Ming. 761-4303. 761-4303.
JOYCE: Hello.
MANUEL: Ah, hello. Yes, is Manuel Ferreira.
JOYCE: Yes. Hello?
MANUEL: Ah. Is Anthony' Ming , please?
JOYCE: No. I'm sorry. He .
MANUEL: Oh, he isn't.
JOYCE: No. a message?
MANUEL: Ah! No, no. There's message.
JOYCE: Can I ?
MANUEL: Oh, no-that's okay. Ah, what time he be home?
JOYCE: at six o'clock.
MANUEL: At six?
JOYCE: Yes, at six.
MANUEL: Okay, at six.
JOYCE: And you leave a message?
MANUEL: No. No, thanks. That's all right. later.
JOYCE: right, then. Bye-bye.
MANUEL: Goodbye.
Can you guess why Manuel doesn’t want to leave a message?
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division
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Telephone Expressions

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Responding to an Answering Machine Message - LINC 1.14

Published on Sunday, August 26, 2012 in , , , , ,

Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
she   ·  is   ·  her   ·  Could you   ·  her   ·  her   ·  I'm   ·  Can I   ·  she   ·  your   ·  her   ·  she   ·  her   ·  Her   ·  Her   ·  My   ·  your   ·  It's   ·  She'll be   ·  I'll be   ·  your   ·  She   ·  me   ·  her   ·  you   ·  that's   ·  her  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
ANSWERING MACHINE: Hello, this is a message for Mrs. Ran from Mrs. Ming. It's Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. I'm calling about the job. phone number is 761-4303. home this afternoon until 2:30. Thank you.
MANSOUREH: 761-4303.
ANTHONY: Hello?
MANSOUREH: Hello. Is Mrs. Ming there, please?
ANTHONY: Sorry, is not home.
MANSOUREH: Oh. I had a message to call before 2:30.
ANTHONY: 2:30. now three o'clock.
MANSOUREH: Oh, right. It's three o'clock. Sorry.
ANTHONY: That's no problem. back in half an hour.
MANSOUREH: At 3:30?
ANTHONY: Yes. take a message?
MANSOUREH: Yes. have call me? This is Mansoureh Ran.
ANTHONY: Okay, just a minute. Mansoureh? How do spell that?
MANSOUREH; It's Mansoureh-M-a-n-s-o-u-r-e-h.
ANTHONY: And Ran, R-a-n, is last name, right?
MANSOUREH: That's right.
ANTHONY: Okay.
MANSOUREH: Please ask to call me before 5 o'clock.
ANTHONY: Before five o'clock.
MANSOUREH: It's about the job.
ANTHONY: About the job. And what's phone number?
MANSOUREH: 742-1131.
ANTHONY: 742-1131.
MANSOUREH: That's right.
ANTHONY: Fine, then. I'll see that gets the message.
MANSOUREH: Excuse me, what Mrs. Ming's first name?
ANTHONY: first name?
MANSOUREH: Yes. left a message for to call back, but didn't tell first name.
ANTHONY: It's Joyce. first name is Joyce.
MANSOUREH: Joyce?
ANTHONY: Yes. And Anthony. I'm husband.
MANSOUREH: Oh, hi, Anthony. Thanks for help.
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division
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Asking People to Speak Slowly on the Phone

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Answering Machine Messages - LINC 1.15

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Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
calling   ·  give me a lift   ·  leave   ·  can't take   ·  before   ·  as soon as   ·  from   ·  didn't   ·  I'll call you back   ·  feel   ·  is   ·  for   ·  promised   ·  work   ·  can let   ·  on   ·  call me back   ·  at   ·  remember   ·  You've reached  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
MIBONG: Manuel Ferreira, 758-3939. 758-3939.
ANSWERING MACHINE: Hello. 758-3939. I'm sorry I can't take your call right now, but please your name and number and the time you called and I'll call you as soon as I can. Thanks for calling.
MIBONG: Hello, this a message for Manuel from Mibong. Please at 224-8630 before ten o'clock. It is now 7:30. Thanks. Bye.
ANSWERING MACHINE: I'm sorry I your call right now, but please leave your name and number and the time you called and I'll call you I can. Thanks for . Beep.
RICARDO: Hi, Manuel. This is Ricardo. It's three o'clock Tuesday. Can you to work tomorrow morning? You me know 689-5189. Thanks! Bye.
PEDRO: Ferreira; H. Ferreira, Luis, Manuel Ferreira :758-3939.
ANSWERING MACHINE: Hello…. Beep.
TERRY: Yes. This is Terry Nakamoto calling for Mr. Manuel Ferreira.
It is now 5:30 Monday night, Please call me tonight or tomorrow at 225-3287 or . Thank you.
ANSWERING MACHINE: Beep.
MONICA: Manuel, this is your friend Monica. Remember you to
call me last week, and you . I'll call you back later or you can call me. That is if you still my number!
ANSWERING MACHINE:… Beep.
JOHN: Heh, buddy. This is John. It's 9:30 Sunday night. Can you for me tomorrow? I really sick. Call me back at 638-2198 eleven, okay. I'll talk to you later. Bye!
ANSWERING MACHINE: Beep.
MANSOUREH: Hello, this is a message Manuel, Mansoureh. Please call me back at 742-1131 before ten o'clock. It's now 7:30. Thanks. Goodbye.
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division
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Take a Message - Remy Shand

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Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
right   ·  Tired   ·  knows   ·  enough   ·  fall   ·  love   ·  could   ·  endlessly   ·  price   ·  tell   ·  lost   ·  break   ·  found   ·  No one   ·  right   ·  waves   ·  truth   ·  past   ·  hope   ·  cried   ·  see   ·  message  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
How did she in love?
and shaken up
Could it be hanging around's ?
was fooling when they told about the sense in sensibility in moving on.
All that I see is that we live in life
Did you fail when you that you paid the price?
Hope it wasn't in an honest truth
so, the doesn't break all that we'd been through
Every little thing what you did was
but, who knows what you did on that day you endlessly
Oh you cried
Take a from my love
What I say to you?
Oh, when making the was left unconscious
I didn't mean to you why, oh why?
But you harbored all defenses
And you're making it hard to bring that back for you and I
All that I is that we livin' life
Did you fail when you found that you paid the ?
Hope it wasn't lost in an honest
so the past doesn't all that we'd been through
Every little thing what you did was
but, who what you did on that day you cried endlessly
Oh you cried endlessly
Take a message from my
VOCABULARY
Fall in love: suddenly be in love
Shaken up: upset and tired
Hanging around: just being together
Fooling: joking
Sense: smart idea
Moving on: leaving
Paid the price: pay for an experience by losing something
Endlessly: non-stop
Enough: more not necessary
Fail: not succeed
Honest: true
The past: what happened before
Making waves: doing something to upset others
Unconscious: deep down in the mind
Harbour defenses: say you are right, not listen to another person’s ideas, defend yourself
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
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Reception Desk Inquiries - LINC 1.17

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Reception Desk Messages - LINC 1.18

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Telephone Rendezvous - LINC 1.21

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Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
we   ·  I'll be   ·  would you like   ·  we'll see   ·  I'll come   ·  did   ·  know   ·  yes   ·  o'clock   ·  we'll meet   ·  What   ·  busy   ·  going out   ·  because   ·  This   ·  said   ·  himself  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
Jay is a little nervous he met a woman he liked yesterday. He is afraid to call her so he asks his friend Max to call her.
MAX: Mina?
MlNA: Yeah?
MAX: Are you tonight?
MINA: Tonight? Why?
MAX: Ah. We're for a burger and then to the movies.
MINA: Who's ?
JAY: did she say?
MAX: Shhh. Jay and 1.
MINA: Jay? Well, I don't .
JAY: What did she say?
MAX: Mina, to come?
MINA: Sure! .
MAX: Great.
JAY: Did she say ?
MAX: She she'll come.
JAY: She ?
MAX: She did.
JAY: Hi. Mina, is Jay.
MINA: Oh, hi Jay.
JAY:So, you at the corner of Marsh and Forty-first?
MINA: Sure. What time?
JAY: What time? What time?
MAX: Six .
JAY: At six.
MINA: Okay, there.
JAY: Oh, that's great. So, you at six.
MINA: Sure. Bye, Jay.
After the call, Jay is so excited that he fogets where and when they will pick Mina up.
Do you remember your first date with your husband or wife? What happened?
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division
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Phoning Around for Repairs - LINC 1.33

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One moment please   ·  have reached   ·  Why don't you   ·  What's the matter   ·  I don't think   ·  There's   ·  Would you like   ·  Good idea   ·  Do you have   ·   had to fill   ·  Do you think   ·  Please hold   ·  Why don't we   ·  have to go  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
ESTER: Sorry about this. I the kettle from the bathroom tap.
PAUL: What's wrong?
ESTER: The kitchen tap is broken. I need some parts for it.
PAUL: Oh, that's inconvenient.
ESTER: It's okay. I just to the plumbing store on West Broadway. It's only about a fifteen minute walk.
PAUL: try Paul's Plumbing on east Fifth. It's only two blocks away.
ESTER: they will be open till five o'clock?
PAUL: give them a call?
ESTER: Good idea.
PAUL: Here they are “872-3766”.
ESTER: 872-3766.
VOICE: Hello.
ESTER: Hello. Is this Paul's Plumbing on West Fifth?
VOICE: No. This is Antonio's Bakery.
ESTER: Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong number.
PAUL: ?
ESTER: Oh, I dialed the wrong number.
ESTER: 872-3766.
RECORDED MESSAGE: The number you is not in service.
PAUL: Well, what now?
ESTER: It's not in service.
PAUL: Maybe they moved. Why don't you try 411-the directory assistance?
ESTER: Okay. .
OPERATOR: Be. Tel Directory. What city, please?
ESTER: Vancouver.
OPERATOR: Go ahead, please.
ESTER: a listing for Paul's Plumbing on West Fifth?
OPERATOR: . Sorry. There's no Paul's Plumbing on West Fifth. I am showing a Paul and John's Plumbing and Electrical in Surrey.
ESTER: No, that's it. It should be in Vancouver. Could there be a new listing?
OPERATOR: Yes. a new listing for Paul's Plumbing on Pine Street.
ESTER: Oh, that would be it.
OPERATOR: to try that?
ESTER: Sure. Thanks.
OPERATOR: for the new number.
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division
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Phoning 911 - LINC 2.14

Published on Saturday, August 25, 2012 in , , , , ,

Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
is going to be   ·  calm down   ·  hurry   ·  at   ·  at   ·  an emergency   ·  a cellular phone   ·  have   ·  should be   ·  the paramedics   ·  to know   ·  a car accident  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
3rdCALLER
OPERATOR: 911.
CALLER #3: I have . My three-year-old just swallowed drain cleaner!
OPERATOR: Okay, ma'am, I'll have to ask you to . We're going to get you some help.
CALLER #3: Oh, please !
OPERATOR: We will, ma'am. Now, you're located 413 Elm Avenue?
CALLER #3: Yes! Apartment three.
OPERATOR: I'm putting your call through to . They'll tell you what to do until the ambulance gets there.
CALLER #3: Thank you!
OPERATOR: You to try to calm down, ma'am. Everything all right.
4th CALLER
OPERATOR: 911.
CALLER #4: Yes, hi. I'd like to report .
OPERATOR: Are you calling from , ma'am?
CALLER #4: Yes, I am.
OPERATOR: Okay. In that case, I need you to give me your location.
CALLER #4: I'm the Oak Road exit.
OPERATOR: And I need how many vehicles are involved.
CALLER #4: Two. It looks pretty bad.
OPERATOR: Okay. The emergency response team there in approximately five to ten minutes.

Vocabulary

Swallow: drink
Drain cleaner: cleaner for the kitchen or bathroom sink
Paramedics: ambulance workers
Report: tell about
Cellular phone: cell phone
Exit: highway turn with a sign
Vehicles: cars or trucks
Involved: in the situation (accident]
Emergency response team: ambulances and police team
Approximately: about, around
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
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Long Distance Call - LINC 2.30

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Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation.
called   ·  repeat   ·  have   ·  to check   ·  will be   ·  to dial   ·  dialed   ·  calling   ·  connecting   ·  is   ·  may be   ·  reached   ·  would   ·  give   ·  will show up  
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
ANTHONY: 411 (four one one).
OPERATOR: BC Tel operator. Can I help you?
ANTHONY: I just a number in Hong Kong, and I Abbotsford.
OPERATOR: Okay. I'll you a credit for the wrong number. What number did you dial?
ANTHONY: 852-567-3345.
OPERATOR: One moment, please. There no charge, sir. The credit on your next phone bill.
ANTHONY: Thank you.
OPERATOR: Would you like me the number in Hong Kong?
ANTHONY: Yes, I . Thanks.
OPERATOR: What's the name, please?
ANTHONY: Koo's Exports.
OPERATOR: Do you the address?
ANTHONY: 888 (eight eight eight) Taipan Place.
OPERATOR: One moment. I'm to Directory Assistance in Hong Kong.
H.K. TEL: Hong Kong Directory Assistance.
OPERATOR: This is Canada . We need the number of Koo Exports at 888 Taipan Place.
H.K. TEL: One moment, please. The number : area code (852) 567-3345.
OPERATOR: Thank you. Sir? The number in Hong Kong is:
area code (852) 567-3345.
ANTHONY: Can you that, please?
OPERATOR: (852) 567-3345.
ANTHONY: I just that number direct to Hong Kong, but I reached Abbotsford.
OPERATOR: Did you dial 011 before the number?
ANTHONY: Zero one one! No, I dialed 1 and the number.
OPERATOR: That the problem, sir. To dial overseas, you need 0Il.
ANTHONY: Oh! So to reach a number overseas, I dial 011, before the number?
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English
Video courtesy TRU University - Open Learning Division

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