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Please, Take A Message
Learners identiry which information is important to capture when dictating a telephone message. In pairs, students practice dictating and recording telephone messages using a dedicated telephone message pad. This lesson is intended for...
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Can I Take a Message? A Telephone English Role-play
Students play a game to practice receiving and relaying telephone messages. They are divided into two groups, callers and receivers. Receivers sit facing a wall, callers behind them. When a caller wants to make a call they tap the...
Perkins School for the Blind
Telephone Skills
What kid doesn't love talking on the phone? Learners with visual and intellectual disabilities get comfortable using several types of telephones. They begin by examining the phone, dialing, answering the phone, and then they work into...
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Telephone Messages
Learners practice having telephone conversations. They create their own phone message after practicing with each other. They also identify the different parts of a telephone.
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French: One-Sided Telephone Conversations
Allo? Qui est-ce? Hone the listening skills of your Francophiles by simulating telephone conversations. After reviewing basic french telephone expressions (some are included here), they conduct two conversations per day for one week. A...
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Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across
Students examine how the Inca communicated over large distances. They locate the Inca Empire on a map, define key vocabulary terms, play the game, 'telephone,' and create a quipu to show the year they were born.
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ESOL Telephone Communications
Students answer incoming telephone calls, take simple messages, and respond to voice mail prompts. They write a paragraph using correct spacing and legible cursive handwriting. They practice the sounds of past tense endings.
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Teaching Telephone English for Business ESP English Classes
Learners practice the practical skill of telephone communication. They perform a series of role plays to give them practical experience in the proper way to speak and respond while on the telephone.
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Telephone Communication
Students role-play telephone conversations. They view a video of a telephone conversation and discuss the vocabulary used during the conversation. They practice conversations and substitute responses.
Computer Science Unplugged
Phylogenetics
Introduce your class to the concept of creating phylogenetic trees by playing a game of Telephone. Participants create a mixed-up message and through the use of distance matrices, the evolution of the message is recreated.
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Telephone Skills - knowing whether to stay on the line or leave a message
Pupils listen to a tape of a dialogue of a call to a workplace to determine whether to stay on the line or leave a message. They also practice short dialogues.
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Music With a Message
Students write a line by line analysis of a song which they feel expresses a powerful message that can change society for the better. They then present their analysis to the class in an oral report.
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Take A Message
Students practice accurate note taking skills, recording only pertinent information. Using proper grammar and useage, they record accurate phone messages. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Professional Communications in Business
Leave a message after the beep! Using the fun resource, pupils brush up on their communication skills by practicing taking and receiving phone messages. Additionally, they recreate an interoffice memo and create a meeting agenda to...
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ESOL Telephone Communication
Students discuss the importance of leaving an appropriate message on an answering machine or voice mail system. They write a message for a friend and in pairs take turns reading their message while their partner writes it down.
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ESL: Using the Telephone
Twelfth graders practice telephone etiquette skills by simulating phone conversations. They discover how to making simulated 911 calls, taking phone messages, and dealing with telemarketers.
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Sending Messages, Then and Now
Students analyze how patriots created ways to communicate during the Revolutionary War. After reading about and discussing ways patriots communicated, students create a chart analyzing the way messages are sent today with the way...
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1-800-MATHFUN
Learners complete a number and letter recognition activity by creating phone numbers for businesses. In this telephone number lesson, students brainstorm telephone numbers that include words. Learners translate numbers to their numeric...
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Mobile Phones
Mobile phones and how they are used is the focus of this sociology lesson. In it, middle and high schoolers explore how they use mobile phones. They create and act out conversations, text messages, and take a close look at how texting is...
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Nervous System
Get to know the body's central nervous system through an engaging game of nervous system telephone. But this isn't your average game of telephone. Here, pupils must find a way to communicate a message to the brain without speaking....
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Communication
Learners identify the different modes of communication They come up with different ideas and list the ideas on the board. They discuss the definition of communication as a means of conveying an idea or message. They convey the same...
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Codebreaker Math
Students solve addition and subtraction problems and decipher and write messages using a code. They read and discuss an informational fact sheet about the Navajo code talkers from World War II, and decode and re-code messages using math...
Common Sense Media
Show Respect Online
Through discussion and a variety of worksheet types, pupils learn to review their e-mails for grammar, appropriateness, and respect before sending.
Overcoming Obstacles
Communicating Constructively
Some types of verbal communication are just more difficult that others. High schoolers engage in a series of activities that are designed to help teens make difficult conversations easier and more effective.