When your phone is ringing and you answer it, the first thing you say is "Hello".

The other person on the phone will usually say something like: "Is John there?" or "May I speak with John?"

If John is not home, you respond: "No, I'm sorry, John isn't here. Can I take a message?"

If John is home, you would reply, "Yes, hold on a minute and I will get him for you." or "Yes, please wait a minute."

Hope this helps you have a little more confidence when you have to answer the telephone in English.

Good luck!

~Missy

A very difficult poem proving that English is difficult to pronounce. The words are below the video.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well done! And now you wish perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead, it's said like bed, not bead-
for goodness' sake don't call it 'deed'!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

What is a "bad apple"?

Is it an apple that is old? An apple that is brown?

No, it has nothing to do with that.

This phrase actually is an English idiom and refers to a bad person. An example sentence is:
Sam's brother is a bad apple because he is always causing problems in the family.

Most people who speak English, when asked what is the longest word they know, will say: antidisestablishmentarianism.

This word was first created to oppose the disestablishment of the Church of England.
Nowadays, people use the word to say that they are opposed to the belief that there should not be an official church in a country.

Try saying this word 3 times fast!

Antidisestablishmentarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism

:) Good luck!

~Missy