Informal Calls: Calling a Friend

Task 1:

Click here to listen to two friends talking on the phone. Write the phrases you hear:

1. A phrase the caller uses to identify herself: 


hi rita it's jain

2. A phrase the caller uses to find out if the recipient is free to chat: 


is this a good time

3. Phrases the two friends use to change the topic: 


so listen,by the way

4. A phrase the recipient of the call uses to signal that she wants to end the conversation:


well

5. A phrase the caller uses to cooperate in ending the conversation: 


I should let you go

Task 2:

Listen to the recording again. Listen for the phrases below and write their meanings.

1. In ages 
from long time

2. I’m off until January 
on vocation 

3. Time for yourself 
free time

4. Have someone over 
invite over

5. Seeing a man/woman 
dating somebody

6. Kind of faded away 
disappeared

7. He was in IT 
he worked in Information Technology 

8. I should let you go finished 

9. Take care 
bye bye