When you're learning a language making a phone call can feel very challenging.
However, there are regular patterns to how phone calls start and finish.
Let's look at two examples and analyze how they happen.
Hello.
Hi Dave.
Oh hi Sally.
Hi.
How are you?
Oh not too bad. What about you?
Yeah pretty good.
Good. Anyway, I was just calling because you have a visitor here.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay. Right. I better get back then. Thanks for letting me know.
No problem.
Okay.
Bye.
Let's listen again and look at the parts.
Now, let's look at another similar example.
Hello
Hi
How are you?
Not too bad. You?
Yeah okay I guess.
Good. So what are you doing for lunch?
No plan. Why?
Well do you want to meet up?
Yeah sure.
Okay. How about the cafeteria at 12.30pm?
Sounds good.
Okay, great.
See you at 12:30pm then.
Okay. Thanks
Okay. Bye
Bye
Look at the different stages to this phone call. Can you start to see the pattern?
Not every phone call will follow an exact pattern but it is useful to know
that phone calls do have regular steps. Perhaps most important to remember is to
listen carefully and make sure that your message is clearly understood.
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