Communication


Answer Key


Practice


A  Is the meaning the same or different? Write S or D.


1 D,   2 S,   3 D,   4 S,   5 D,   6 S,   7 S,   8 S,  9 D,  10 S


B  Complete this extract from a guide to using the internet with the following:


1 sites   2 online   3 download   4 chat room   5 newsgroup   6 web page


Making a call


1 that, It’s   2 there, take a message, call back   3 wrong, no one


Phone messages


Listen and complete the phone messages (answering machine messages).


A

This is 641 480. I’m afraid there’s no one to take your call right 1 now. Please leave your 2 name
and

3 number after the tone and I’ll call you back.

Ah, yes, hello. Mr Trotter, my 4 name is Rachel and I’m 5 interested in your advertisement. Could
you call me back, please? Any time before 6 o’clock. The number is 087044 6091. Ask for Rachel.
Bye.


B

Stuart here. I’m not home at the 6 moment, so please leave a 7 message after the beep. Thanks.

Hello, good morning. 8 This is Bella Moor, that’s Moor – M – double O – R. I’m 9 calling about the
Kung Fu classes. You can call me back on my 10 mobile, that’s 0447 395822. But I’ll try to 11 call
you again later.



1 now   2 name   3 number   4 name   5 interested   6 moment   7 message   8 This   9 calling   10
mobile   11 call














Taken and adapted from:

Gough, Chris. English Vocabulary Organiser. LTP 2001. ISBN 1-899396-36-5

Gairns, Ruth. Redman, Stuart. Oxford Word Skills – Basic. OUP 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-462003-1

Kerr, Philip. Straightforward. Pre-intermediate. Macmillan 2012. ISBN 978-0-230-42446-3

El-Hmoudová, Dagmar. Angličtina – maturitní témata. Petra Velanová 2006. ISBN 978-80-86873-04-6

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