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Making and Receiving Phone Calls

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to start, manage, and finish a simple telephone conversation and leave or take basic messages.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. Hello, this is Alex Smith speaking.
    2. Could I speak to Maria, please?
    3. I am sorry, but she is not available right now.
    4. Would you like to leave a message?
    5. Please ask her to call me back when she is free.
  • Grammar Focus: Polite requests with could and would like, object pronouns, and ask someone to plus infinitive
  • Vocabulary Focus: call, message, available, voicemail, contact
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