Conversational Practices: Getting

information on the phone & Grammar

Focus

1. M. Saifuddin (23070190073)
2. Agil Yunika Sari (23070210002)
3. Inayah Nur Fadhilah (23070210042)
4. Laili Mahbubati Khusniyah (23070210061)
5. Siti Yuni Lestari (23070210080)
s
slidesmania.com
 DISCUSSION
● Conversational Practices
● Getting information on the phone
● You can use several expressions below
during a telephone call:
● I’m calling to find out…
● I’d like to ask…
● Could you tell me…?
● I’m calling about…
● I was wondering if you could tell me…
● I wonder if you could help me…
● If you go through a switchboard, say first:
slidesmania.com

I’d like to talk to somebody about…

 Task: Work in pairs and use the expression above in a phone call
simulation using the situations below:
1. You are having a difficult English homework while you must
submit it tomorrow.
Ari: Hello bram, good luck.
Bram: Hii, good luck too.
Ari: Sorry I called you to find out about English yesterday.
Bram: Yes, what do you want to ask?
Ari: I’d like to ask about the last part of English, how to do it?
Bram: Alright, let me understand the material first.
Ari: Can you tell me how to do it?
Bram: It just rearrangers and adds the correct vocabulary, so the
sentences are perfect.
Ari: Thank you very much.
slidesmania.com
 2. You need to tell your lecture about the reason you 3. You are running out of money and you think
could not join his class earlier today. your parents can help.
Radit: Assalamualaikum sir… Ayra: Assalamualaikum dad? Father:
Eko: Wa’alaikumsalam…with whom and what Wa’alaikumsalam, what’s wrong ayra called dad,
interests? I’d like to ask why ayra called dad?
Radit: I’m sorry sir, I’m Radit from the next class, the Ayra: Saturday, I had an iftar event together on
purpose of my call was to find out about permission to campus, but I ran out of money. Can dad help me
not attend the class. to transfer money?
Pak Eko: Could you tell me the reason for not attending Father: Okay, I will transfer it to your account this
class? afternoon.
Radit: I’m sorry sir, I can’t take classes because I’m Ayra: Thank you dad Father: Yes, you’re
sick and with my current condition I can’t take classes. welcome.
Pak Eko: Because you are sick, I will allow it.
slidesmania.com
 4. You need to have a discussion with your partner about your classroom presentation tomorrow.

Jaki: Assalamulaikum Namira

Namira: Wa’alaikumsalam, what is it that jaki called me?

Jaki: I’d like to ask for tomorrow’s class presentation, is everything ready?

Namira: Everything is ready, just haven’t decided on a moderator yet.

Jaki: Oh okay, fine. I’ll be the moderator.

Namira: Ok Jaki. Jaki: Good luck tomorrow. Assalamualaikum

Namira: I hope so. Wa’alaikumsalam Jaki.

slidesmania.com
 Grammar Focus: Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs are mainly used in spoken English and informal texts (The more formal
a conversation or text, the fewer phrasal verbs are found). Phrasal verbs consist of a
verb plus a particle (preposition, adverb). The particle can change the meaning of the
verb completely.

Some verbs are two part verbs. They consist of a verb and a
particle:
Grow + up
 The children are growing up.
Often this gives the verb a new meaning:
Take + after
 She takes after her mother, means that she looks like her
mother, or she behaves like her mother.
Count + on
 I know I can count on you, means that I can trust you, or I
can believe you.
slidesmania.com
 Some transitive two part verbs (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrases) have only one pattern:
N (subject) + V + p + N (object)

[Note: N = noun; V= verb; p = particle]

N (Subject Verb Particle N (Object

She Takes After Her mother
I Can count On You
My father comes From Madrid

Some transitive two part verbs (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrasas) are phrasal verbs.
Phrasal verbs have two different patterns:
slidesmania.com
  The usual pattern is: N + V + N + p

N (subject) Verb (N) object Particle

She Gave The money Back

He Knocked The glass Over

We Will be leaving Our friends and Behind

neighbors

 But sometimes these verbs the pattern: N (subject) + V + p + N (object)

N (subject) Verb Particle N (object)

She Gave Back The money

He Knocked Over The glass
We Will be leaving Behind Our friends and
slidesmania.com

neighbors
 Bring: About, along, back, forward, in, off, out, round, up
When the object is a personal pronoun, these Buy: in, off, out, round, up
verbs always have the pattern: N + V + N + Call: Off, up
p: Carry Off, out
 She gave back it She gave it back
 He knocked over it He knocked it over Cut Back, down, off, out, up
 We will be leaving behind them We will
Give: Away, back, off
be leaving thembehind
Phrasal verbs are nearly always made up of a Hand: Back, down, in, on out,
transitive verb and a particle. Common verbs Over: round
with their most frequent particle are: Knock: Down, out, over
Leave: Behind, out
Let: Down, in, off, out
Pass: Down, over, round
Point: Out
Push: About, around, over
Put: cross, away, down, forward, off, on, out, through, together, up

Read Out

Set Apart, aside, back, down

slidesmania.com

Shut Away, in, off, out

 Take: Apart, away, back, down, in, on, up, over

Think: Over, through, Up

Exercise: Complete the sentences using one of the phrasal verbs below

Passed away, do without, look forward to, called off, made up, carried away, break out, run out, put up
with, keep up

1. Don’t smoke in the forest. Fires break out easily at this time of the year.
2. I look forward to seeing my friends again.
3. I’m afraid: we have run out of apple juice. Will an orange juice do?
4. Your website has helped me a lot to keep up the good work.
5. A friend of mine has called off her wedding.
6. His mother can’t put up with his terrible behavior anymore.
7. As an excuse for being late, Endang made up a whole story.
8. I got carried away by Ahmad’s enthusiasm.
9. I just cannot do without my mobile phonr. I always keep it with me.
slidesmania.com

1o. Anis was very sad because her father passed away last week.
THANK YOU
slidesmania.com