Telephone English

Can your students leave telephone messages?

Help ease the pain with this worksheet for lower and intermediate level classes.

Looking for telephone English? Cut up the conversation into strips, and get the students to put it in the right order.

It's more difficult than it looks, and is great for both business and general English students.

For elementary to intermediate-level students.

Great roleplay practice for telephone English.

This information-gap worksheet is for lower-intermediate and intermediate, but can be adapted for other levels.

This worksheet uses general English, but there's also a business version.

Recommended!

This conversation-based worksheet will help your students with basic telephone English and using 'could' for requests.

There is a lead-in on the topic of hotels, with simple questions. Your students will then need to put a conversation in order.

The conversation strips are provided along with teaching notes.

There is a short grammar quiz, followed by lots of practice of the target language.

By the end of the lesson, your students will be able to ask and answer basic telephone questions, and check a reservation at a hotel.

This worksheet is written for elementary-level students.

Do your students ever need to deal with native speakers who are less than happy with something?

This worksheet looks at expressions for how to respond to dissatisfied customers. There is an extended conversation, practice exercises and the opportunity to role-play different scenarios.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced-level students.

Can your students make changes to plans they've made? Using a conversation about rearranging lunch as its base, this worksheet looks at common expressions used for making changes. There's a gap-fill conversation plus lots of practice exercises. If you're looking for a business version, look up 'Changing an Appointment' in our search engine.

This worksheet looks at making appointments over the telephone. There is lots of practice of the Present Continuous for future plans, and your students will have the chance to brush up on their telephone English. There is a conversation, information-gap activity, role-plays and discussion. The worksheet is designed for elementary to pre-intermediate level students.

This conversation is correct English, but highly impolite! You can help instill some manners in your students with this worksheet. Your students need to go through the conversation, changing the register from rude to polite. 'Polite Telephone English' can be used as a follow-up to a general English phone lesson. It also works well if set as homework.