Telephone English poses a special problem for English learners because of the lack of visual clues used when speaking. Practicing telephone English in class can also seem rather artificial as exercises generally ask students to practice speaking on the phone through role-plays sitting together in small groups. Once they have learned the basic phrases used in telephoning, the main difficulty lies in communicating without visual contact.This telephone English lesson plan focuses on creating more realistic telephoning situations to encourage students to practice authentic telephoning situations.
The lesson has been planned to take place in a business setting. However, the lesson can be modified by the use of smart phones to fit any teaching situation.
Aim: Improving Telephoning Skills
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Activity:Role playing using office telephone lines
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Finally, if can't use separate telephones lines in a business setting, use smart phones and ask students to go to separate rooms for their calls.
Remember that students will need lots of practice to improve their telephoning skills. To help create further opportunities, spend some time discussing specific telephoning tasks they can expect at work.
Match the first half of the sentence to the second half to complete these common expressions used on the telephone.
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Use the cues to make telephone calls with a partner.
It's a good idea to write out short notes before your make a telephone call. This will help you keep on track during your conversation.
What it is: A simple, silly talking game with no winners or losers. Great for kids.
Best for: Group of 6 to 12.
What you need: Just people to play.
How to play: Sit all of your players in a line. The player at one end of the line (we’ll call her Janna) thinks of a phrase or saying. It can be something made-up; in fact, it’s often funnier if it is. Something like, for example, “The cow ate the apple pie.” It can be as silly as Janna wants, about people in the room or about something random.
Once Janna thinks of her phrase, she whispers it quietly in the ear of the player next to her, Robby. Robby listens carefully, and then once Janna finishes whispering her phrase, he leans over and whispers it in the ear of the player next to him. The game continues like this, with the phrase being passed all the way down the line of players.
Now if Robby doesn’t clearly hear the phrase Janna whispers or it doesn’t make much sense to him, he CAN’T ask Janna to repeat it – that’s a rule. Each player is only allowed to say the phrase once. So if Robby didn’t hear right, he just has to guess the best he can at what the phrase might be and whisper it to the next player.
That’s where the fun of the game comes in, because by the time the phrase reaches the end of the line, it’s usually so different from the original as to be silly. Once the last player (we’ll call him Benny) has the phrase whispered in his ear, he repeats it out loud to the other players, and then everyone laughs at the absurd differences in the sentences; perhaps as what started as “The cow ate the apple pie” ends as “Now Nate learns to fly.”
To play another round, have Janna move to the end of the line and let Robby start the next phrase.
Variations: Telephone is a good simple game, but there are some more involved – and fun – variations involving charades and drawing/writing.