Telephoning - English Conversation Lesson

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Hello and welcome everyone. This is Minoo at Anglo-Link.
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Today we've prepared another lesson on conversational English for you.
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And the topic we have chosen for you is Telephoning.
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As usual, we're going to look at both formal and informal expressions in this context.
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The first dialogue is in the context of calling a friend,
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and in the second dialogue, we'll listen to someone calling a law firm.
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After you've heard both dialogues, we're going to compare them sentence by sentence,
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so you can become aware of the differences in styles and expressions,
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and we will finish with a gap filling exercise to get you to practise these dialogues more actively
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and memorise some of the useful expressions in them.
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By the end of the lesson, you will have a nice selection of both formal and informal expressions to make phone calls.
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