Telephone English articles

14 articles on making and teaching English phone calls. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic

Teaching telephoning articles 

40 telephoning activities 

How to teach telephoning 

15 fun telephoning practice tasks 

Telephoning articles for learners (and teachers)

Being polite on the phone – a step by step guide

How to be friendly on the phone in English

100 polite telephoning dos and don’ts

100 common telephoning errors

British and American phone calls

50 ways to answer the phone (in English and other languages)

Cultural differences in telephoning

How to make and deal with complaints on the phone

How to start phone calls in English 

How to end phone calls smoothly and politely 

How to leave and take messages on the phone 

Related materials

Teaching Telephoning: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 300 pages of photocopiable pairwork and groupwork, including improved versions of some of the worksheets below)

Really Learn the Most Useful Telephoning Phrases (over 100 pages of stimulating self-study practice, with realistic and useful speaking activities, model dialogues, detailed answers, and lots of training in the best way for students to learn on their own)

The 100 most important telephoning phrases 

Telephoning games/ worksheets

Updated 13 March 2024