Telephone Conversation

Telephone Conversation
Задание 1 Answer the questions:
1 How do businessmen keep in touch?
2 How can a businessman make an appointment?
3 What is customary for businessmen before the meeting?
4 What should you do if you cannot keep the appointment?
Задание 2 Fill in the missing remarks:
a) A: Three-four-five; nine-seven-double-eight.
B: _____________?
A: I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong number.
B: ___________.
A: That’s all right.
b) A: Hello! ___________?
B: Sorry, Sir. Mister Crops is not available. Is there any message?
A: ___________.
B: Right. Good-bye.
Задание 3 Develop the following situations into dialogues. Act them out with
your partner:
a) get in touch with your agent over the phone and ask him to arrange a
technical Shipchandler to come aboard your vessel by 10 o’clock tomorrow
morning;
b) book a call from St. Petersburg to London for 5 p.m. today.