Timesharing is the new way to plan and enjoy your holidays this year, next year and on into the future. This is how the scheme works.
Just choose your favourite holiday destination. Youre sure to find a number of timeshare schemes operating there. Most timeshares are private flats, apartments, cottages or villas. You dont buy the property or rent it. You buy the right to use it for a certain period of time each year- for ever!
But what happens when, after five years, youre tired of staying in the same apartment in Portugal and want to go somewhere else? Simple. You join a timeshare exchange club which will arrange, for a small fee, to find someone to stay in your apartment while you go off for two weeks to Austria, Andorra or Alaska!
One word of warning, however. Dont believe the salesman when he tells you what a good investment timeshares are. It isnt always easy to find someone who wants to spend two weeks in November on the Costa del Sol for the rest of their life!
The return on your investment is not financial. Its the opportunity you have to visit places all over the world and stay in high- quality private accommodation wherever you go.
Are these statements about timeshare true or false?
1. Under a timeshare agreement you dont buy the apartment or villa.
2. A timeshare exchange club will sell your timeshare to some one else.
3. It costs nothing to belong to a timeshare exchange club.
4. Investing in a timeshare is a good way to make money in the future.
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Unit 7. On the telephone.
Words and expressions:
1. to hold the line
2. to hang up
3. to call smb/ring smb/ make a call/ (tele)phone smb
4. to call back
5. to pick up the telephone
6. to put through
7. to go ahead
8. a bad line
9. to speak up
10. a switchboard (to transfer smb back to switchboard)
11. a call box
12. an engaged (busy-AmE) line
13. phone-book/ directory (telephone book-AmE)
14. the number is ex-directory(unlisted-AmE)
15. Directory Enquiries (information-AmE)
16. a reverse charge/transfer call (collect call-AmE)
17. a message pad (to leave a message for smb)
18. a dialing tone
19. to dial the number
20. a long distance line
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21. extension number
22. to be on the other line
23. international / country code
24. area / city code
25. a wrong number (extension)
There are some differences between speaking to a person face-to-face and speaking to a person on the telephone. For a example, on the telephone:
- You cant write things and show them to the other person.
- You cant see, or use, gestures.
- The quality of sound is often bad.
- You cant see the other persons face.
- You cannot use diagrams or charts.
- There are special expressions which we only use on the phone.
- The two people speaking are in the different places.
- Conversations are sometimes interrupted by technical problems.
Here are nine useful questions. Put the words in the correct order.
Follow the example:
Please / you / again / that / could / say? Could you say it again, please?
1. could / name / give / me / you / your?
2. that / could / spell / you?
3. little / speak / more / could / you / slowly / a?
4. could / you / me / your / address / give?
5. number / your / phone / give / could / me / you?
6. Im / you / say / sorry / did / what?
7. fax / whats / number / your?
8. six / seven / say / or / did / you / sorry / Im?
9. sorry / a / little / could / speak / up / you / Im?
Put the sentences in the right order to make a telephone conversation:
Receptionist:
1. Goodbye
2. And your number?
3. One moment Im afraid hes in a meeting. Can I take a message?
4. How do you spell that?
5. Hawker Robins. Good morning. Can I help you?
6. Certainly. Could I have your name, please?
7. Ill see that he gets your message.
Caller:
a. L-E-B-L-I-Q-U-E.
b. Thank you very much. Goodbye.
c. Could I speak to Phil Allison, please?
d. Yes, Could you ask him to call me before four oclock? Im ringing about the AJK proposal.
e. John Leblique.
f. 453 2121.
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