Telephoning troubles collocations Part One
Student A
Without showing your worksheet to your partner, work together to match up the sentence halves to make real life telephoning problems.
- I phoned directory_________________
- The line suddenly went _________________
- I tried the number 6 or 7 times, but the line was always _______________
- I couldn’t get _________________
- I was held in call _________________
- The receptionist put me on _________________
- They gave the wrong _________________
- I got a ringing _________________
- I was cut_________________
- His answer _________________
- When I pressed the automatic redial _________________
- There was such a bad _________________
- The hand _________________
- I had no small change for the phone _________________
- I couldn’t find anywhere to buy a phone _________________
- I left my phone off the _________________
- My mobile phone dialled the emergency _________________
Discuss your real life experiences of these problems. What did you do?
Ask each other how you would react to the other situations: What would you do if (you were cut off before you finished speaking)?
Roleplay one conversation with your partner
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Telephoning troubles collocations Part One
Student B
Without showing your worksheet to your partner, work together to match up the sentence halves to make real life telephoning problems.
A) _________________services number when it was in my pocket.
B) _________________line that he couldn’t hear me
C) _________________enquiries but his number was ex directory
D) _________________button on my girlfriend’s phone it phoned her ex
E) _________________dead
F) _________________busy
G) _________________through to anyone in the office
H) _________________set in the phone box smelt strange
I) _________________waiting for more than 15 minutes
J) _________________hold for so long that I just hung up
K) _________________box
L) _________________number on their website
M) _________________tone but no one answered
N) _________________hook all day without realizing
O) _________________off before I had finished speaking
P) _________________card for the public phone anywhere.
Q) _________________machine was so full that I couldn’t leave a message
Discuss your real life experiences of these problems. What did you do?
Ask each other how you would react to the other situations: What would you do if (you were cut off before you finished speaking)?
Roleplay one conversation with your partner
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Telephoning troubles Part Two
Match up the compound nouns from the questions above. Have you had any other problems with these?
directory box
to get enquiries
an answer redial (button)
the ringing machine
call tone
(put someone) on card
to cut waiting
(the) automatic line
a bad (someone) off
the hand services (number)
a phone through (to someone)
the emergency hold
a phone set
Match the words to make phone-related collocations
Ex engaged
To hang call
An international number
(My) extension tone
Permanently code
An engaged line
A crossed board
A direct call
Un tone (function)
Touch call
Area free phone
A collect attainable
(My) home phone
A hands directory
Mobile number
Switch phone
Free line
A conference up
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