Four witches and two brooms: phoning a costume hire shop
Nadia phones a costume hire shop to book four witch costumes for an office party; students listen for prices, sizes, times and conditions, practise polite requests and role-play their own booking call.
A2Adults35 minPhone call
About this lesson
An A2 listening lesson (phone call). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- A2
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Phone call
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 35 minutes
- Topic
- Halloween
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Listening (read aloud), Multiple choice, True / False, Gap-fill
- Key words
- hire, deposit, collect, broomstick, medium, share, late
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Understand prices, sizes, times and rules in a phone call to a shop
- Make polite requests: I'd like to…, Could you…?, Can I…?
- Book something by phone in a role play