Theme 6: Using The Telephone - Frontier College

Activity Procedures:
Activity One:
# tutor relates the following story:
“ I am really upset. Last night, just as I was sitting down to dinner my phone
rang. I answered it. It was a young lady and she kept talking and talking. She
talked so quickly I could hardly understand what she was saying. After about
five minutes I realized that she was selling magazines. I told her I wasn’t
interested and hung up.”
# afer you have related the story, ask your student when she has been upset at a
phone call
# ask her what caused her to be upset and why?
# record her answers
# once you have recorded her answers, ask her what the other person could have
done to make the phone call more pleasant and understandable
Activity Two:
# discuss the words in the Key Vocabulary List
# clarify any words that pose a problem
# ask your student to use each one in a sentence related to using the telephone
e.g., You need to speak loudly when you talk on the telephone.
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