Listening, speaking and vocabulary: A new business

VPhrasal verbs

1Choose the correct words to complete the dialogue. 

FloHey, Oli! Look, there's a notice about a young enterprise business competition!

OliWhat does it say?

Flo'Calling all students! Can you ¹come up withgive up a business idea? ²Look forPut together your business plan and give it to Mr Collins by June 30th. The school will ³look forgo ahead some good business people to help you.'

OliWe should do it. What about that idea you had about helping people sell things online?

FloYes. I know lots of people who haven't got time to take photos and put them online. So they ⁴find outgive up and don't sell anything! We can take the photos, write a description of the items, sell them on a website and monitor the sales. Perhaps we should ask for 5% of the sales price?

OliSounds good. Why don't we ⁵come up withset up a Facebook page?

FloGreat idea. I think we should ⁶go aheadgive up with your idea!

2Match the definitions to the phrasal verbs in exercise 1. 

• acreate

• bprepare

• csearch

• dstart to do

• estop trying

• fthink of

 

VOn the phone: phrasal verbs

3Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. 

MOVE
• call
• cut
• get
• hold
• look
• pick
• put

• 1'Tom, can you say bye and 

• hang
 up, please? I need to make a call.' 'OK, Mum.'

• 2How annoying! I was on the phone to Holly and I pressed the wrong button. I   her off!

• 3I need to   up the school's phone number. I don't know it.

• 4'Jess! Can you   up the phone, please? It's ringing.' 'OK!'

• 5'Did you   through to Jack?' 'Yes, but he's watching a film. He asked me to   back.'

• 6'Can you   me through to Mrs Butler, please?' 'Yes. Can you   on, please?'

Talking on the phone

4Play the recording and listen to the telephone conversation. Are the sentences True or False? Correct the false ones. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1Megan speaks to Dan's dad.

  TrueFalse 

• 2Dan is on his bike.

  TrueFalse 

• 3There's a course at the Arts Centre this afternoon.

  TrueFalse 

• 4Megan wants to study painting.

  TrueFalse 

• 5Megan is going to call the Arts Centre today.

  TrueFalse 

Talking on the phone

5Play the recording, listen to the conversation and complete the informal phrases. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

Informal

Who's calling, please?

1 Megan.

2 I speak to ...

I'm 3, he's not here ...

4 to leave a message?

I'll 5 him you called.

Talking on the phone

6Complete Megan’s formal conversation with the phrases in the box. Then play the recording, listen and check. 

MOVE
• Can I take
• Could you put me
• I'll give him
• I'm afraid
• This is
• Who's calling

ReceptionistHello, East-West Arts Centre. Can I help you?

MeganHello. ¹  through to Jed Matthews in the sculpture studio, please?

ReceptionistYes, of course. ² , please?

Megan³  Megan Yates.

ReceptionistJust a moment, Ms Yates. ⁴  Mr Matthews isn't there. ⁵  a message?

MeganYes, please. Could you ask him to call me on 0782 224 224 to give me some information about the course, please?

Receptionist0782 224 224. Yes, no problem.⁶  the message.

MeganThank you. Goodbye.

ReceptionistGoodbye.

Talking on the phone

7Complete the table with the formal phrases in the box. 

MOVE
• Can I take
• Could you put me
• I'll give him
• I'm afraid
• Who's calling

Formal

Who's calling, please?

1 This is  Megan Yates.

2  through to ...

3  Mr Matthews isn’t there.

4  a message?

5  the message.

8  Write a phone conversation between Mr Matthews and Megan's mum. Use phrasal verbs and the phrases below. call someone back cut off get through hang up look up pick up put someone through   It's ... / This is ... Can I speak to ...  / Could you put me through to ... I'm sorry, he's not here ... / I'm afraid ... isn't there. Do you want to leave a message? / Can I take a message? I'll tell him you called. / I'll give him the message.  Write your task in another program (e.g. Word).  Save the file to your computer.  Upload your file.  If you want to add a note to your teacher, write it in the Comments box.  Select Submit to Dropbox to send your work to your teacher.