Dialogue В

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 482.

Text

Listen, read and practise.

Mr Taylor remembered that they had to confirm their returnflight so he rang to Arcanian Airways office in Port Merlin. At first he got the wrong number, or at least, the wrong extension, but in the end they put him through to the Reservations Section. A few days later he had to find a public phone and make a telephone call to the car-hire company because he had an accident with his car (luckily it wasn't too serious) and he wanted to re­port it. It wasn't very late but for some reason there was no reply.

Mr Lee had some difficulty in making a trunk call to his wife in En­gland. He found the international dialling code in the telephone directory and tried to dial direct (there is automatic dialling from Arcania to Brit­ain) but he wasn't able to get through. Eventually he got his home number through the operator, luckily still within the cheap-rate period. Once dur­ing the conversation he was cut off, but the operator reconnected him.

Mr Kay received a phone call from his young nephew who was tour­ing in a distant part of the country. His nephew usually rings him when he is short of money or in some other kind of trouble, so Mr Kay wasn't very pleased to receive the call.

DialogueA

Mr Taylor: Hello, is that Arcanian Airways?

Clerk: Yes, can I help you?

Mr Taylor: Yes, this is Jim Taylor and it's about our return jour­ney to the UK — we're supposed to confirm our flight. Shall I give you the ticket numbers?

Clerk: Sorry, sir, you've got Cargo Section. You want Re-

servations.

— 352 —

12 Зак. 2342

-—353 —

Mr Taylor: Clerk:

Mr Lee: Operator: Mr Lee: Operator: Mr Lee: Operator: Mr Lee:

Operator: Mr Lee:

Operator: