Hi everyone,
Some vocabulary below and some useful questions to put it into practice.
Phone-related vocabulary
Some vocabulary below and some useful questions to put it into practice.
Phone-related vocabulary
A top-up card: tarjeta
recargable
Call rate: tarifa de llamada telefónica.
Telemarketing, Telesales: ventas por teléfono.
Personal organiser: agenda personal.
rechargeable batteries: pilas recargables.
Mobile operators: operadoras telefónicas.
Switchboard: centralita.
call waiting: llamada en espera
Contacts / phone book: guía
Contract / pay-as-you-go: de contrato/prepago
Desvío de llamada: call forwarding.
Establecimiento de llamada: connection fee.
Flat rate: tarifa plana.
flip phone: móvil que se abre levantando la tapa
Hands-free set / kit: manos libres
Hash key: almohadilla.
Inbox: Buzón de entrada
Keypad: teclado numérico
Keys / buttons: teclas
landline / home phone: teléfono filjo
Larga distancia: long-distance call.
“Long-distance phoning centre”: locutorio
llamada urbana: local call.
Menu: menú
Missed call: llamada perdida.
Mobile phone / cell phone (handset): móvil.
to run out of minutes; not to have any minutes on one’s mobile phone; to run out of credit to call.
Outbox: buzón de salida
Phone charger: cargador de batería
ring tone: tono de llamada
Service provider: operadora telefónica; compañía telefónica (Orange, Movistar, etc.)
slide phone: móvil que se abre deslizando la tapa.
There’s no signal / reception: no hay cobertura
To be cutting out / breaking up: se va el sonido, la voz; se corta la conversación.
to dial: marcar
to hang up: colgar
to jailbreak / to unlock a mobile phone: liberar un móvil.
To give sb a bell: dar un toque
To top up: recargar el teléfono
Call rate: tarifa de llamada telefónica.
Telemarketing, Telesales: ventas por teléfono.
Personal organiser: agenda personal.
rechargeable batteries: pilas recargables.
Mobile operators: operadoras telefónicas.
Switchboard: centralita.
call waiting: llamada en espera
Contacts / phone book: guía
Contract / pay-as-you-go: de contrato/prepago
Desvío de llamada: call forwarding.
Establecimiento de llamada: connection fee.
Flat rate: tarifa plana.
flip phone: móvil que se abre levantando la tapa
Hands-free set / kit: manos libres
Hash key: almohadilla.
Inbox: Buzón de entrada
Keypad: teclado numérico
Keys / buttons: teclas
landline / home phone: teléfono filjo
Larga distancia: long-distance call.
“Long-distance phoning centre”: locutorio
llamada urbana: local call.
Menu: menú
Missed call: llamada perdida.
Mobile phone / cell phone (handset): móvil.
to run out of minutes; not to have any minutes on one’s mobile phone; to run out of credit to call.
Outbox: buzón de salida
Phone charger: cargador de batería
ring tone: tono de llamada
Service provider: operadora telefónica; compañía telefónica (Orange, Movistar, etc.)
slide phone: móvil que se abre deslizando la tapa.
There’s no signal / reception: no hay cobertura
To be cutting out / breaking up: se va el sonido, la voz; se corta la conversación.
to dial: marcar
to hang up: colgar
to jailbreak / to unlock a mobile phone: liberar un móvil.
To give sb a bell: dar un toque
To top up: recargar el teléfono
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SOME QUESTIONS TO TALK AND DISCUSS ABOUT
1. How many mobile phones are there in your family?
2. What factors may affect you most in buying a mobile phone: its function, its design, its price, others?
3. How important are the following factors in choosing a mobile phone operator?
- Network coverage.
- Price.
- Family’s operator.
- Reliability.
- Others.
5. Are mobiles easy to use? Are they useful? What do use your mobile mainly for?
6. Do we make a good use of mobiles? What benefits can derive from using a mobile phone? What problems have you ever experienced in your use of mobile phones?
7. Are there any circumstances or situations when you cannot stand mobiles ringing?
8. What do you think of people speaking on their mobiles at the cinema? On the bus? At the bus stop?
9. What is the funniest ring tone you have ever heard?
10. Do you know how to add phone numbers, write and read text messages, send them and erase them?
11. How often do you use WHATSAPP , TWITTER, INSTAGRAM(texts on a mobile)?
12. Do you use voice mail?
13. Are mobile phone calls cheap or expensive?
14. Do you restrict (or try to restrict) your mobile phone use and spending?
15. What do you think of the fact that when you phone someone abroad on your mobile, the person at the other end will have to pay half the call?
16. Do you think landline phones (home phones) may one day disappear?
17. Why is it so difficult for older people to learn how to use mobiles?
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