电话英语很轻松

电话英语很轻松/Phone call ettiquette

　　Student:Could you tell me some useful sentences that I could use on a phonecall?You know my English is poor. I'm afraid I can't follow you.

　　学生：你能跟我讲讲打电话时有用的句子吗？你知道我英语不好。我怕自己听不懂。

　　Teacher:No problem.Basically,there are 3 situations in which people like you can't follow the foreign teacher.1:I may speak too fast.So you can't understand.In this case,you could say "You speak a little fast,slow down,please"

　　老师：没问题。基本上，有三种情况，你可能会听不懂外教的话。第一种：我可能会说得很快。所以你听不懂。这种情况下，你可以说"你说得有点儿快，请说慢点儿。"

　　Student:Wait a moment. I'll have to take down what you said.

　　学生：等一下。我得把你说的记下来。

　　Teacher:Ok

　　老师：好的。

　　Student:Then what's the second point?

　　学生：那下一点呢？

　　Teacher:The second is maybe you can't hear me clearly.In this case,you could say "Excuse me.Can you speak up,please?"or "I beg¹ you pardon?"

　　老师：第二点是也许你听不清我说的话。这种情况下你可以说"对不起。你能大点儿声吗？或是请再说一便"；

　　Student:I see.What's the last point?

　　学生：我知道了。那最后一点是什么？

　　Teacher:The last one is you may miss or you don't understand what I just said.In this case,you culd say "I'm sorry,I don't understand what you're saying.or simply² I don't get it"

　　老师：最后一点是你可能没听到或是没听懂我说的话。这种情况的话，你可以说"不好意思，我不懂你说的是什么。或者简单的一句我听不懂"

　　Student:Is there more?

　　学生：还有别的吗？

　　Teacher:You'd better practice them before you know more.

　　老师：你还是先把它们练好吧。

　　Student:Thanks.I've learned³ a lot today.

　　学生：谢谢。今天我学了很多东西。

　　Teacher:My pleasure.

　　老师：很荣幸

　　Attention Please…特别提醒

　　[你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音

　　[1]打电话的时候会有许多功能句。像：你能再说一遍吗？或是你能大点声吗？等等。这里举几个例子。Ie:Slow down,please.[请说慢点儿]look at time.Shall⁴ we call next time?[看看表吧。下次在聊]I'm happy to hear you again[真高兴能听到你的声音]等。

　　Related⁵ Words…相关词汇

　　以下这些词汇并未给出汉语意思，你可以用我们学到的英语问问外教它们的意思

　　[ie:What does "***" mean? "***"是什么意思？]

　　Hello. speaking. How may I help you?

　　Keeping busy. What have you been up to?

　　I won't keep you any longer. Nice talking to you.

　　注：书中对话仅作参考，重要的是拿起电话，就自己喜欢的内容与老外反复练习。轻易不出口，出口必砸人

1 beg   

v.乞求，乞讨；恳求，请求

参考例句：

• He has to beg on the street to survive.他为了生存，不得不在街头乞讨。
• I beg you to pay attention.我请你们注意听课。

2 simply   

ad.仅仅,只是；简单地；朴素地；完全，简直

参考例句：

• The cake is made quite simply.这蛋糕做起来很简单。
• The teacher explained the text simply.老师简单地解释了一下课文。

3 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

4 shall   

v.aux.（主要用于第一人称）将

参考例句：

• I shall always love you.我将永远爱你。
• Which club shall we join?我们要参加哪个社团？

5 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。