Department of English – English for Professional Communication

THE ENGLISH ALPHABET

E-MAILING SYMBOLS

 Match the pairs.

1 dot a j
2 lower-case j b@
3 backslash c .
4 colon d :
5 forward slash e ;
6 upper-case j f _
7 at g \
8 hyphen/dash h /
9 underscore i J
10 semicolon j -
11 quotation marks k *
12 hash/ hash tag l #
13 star / asterisk m “”
14 ampersand n&

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 Listen to the voicemail extracts and complete the table.

E-mail recipient E-mail address

 Listen to the flight announcements and write down the details.

1. - Time:
- Carrier:
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Gate:

2. - Time:
- Carrier:
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Gate:

3. - Time:
- Carrier:
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Gate:
- Flight status:

4. - Time:
- Carrier:
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Gate:
- Flight status:

5. - Time:
- Carrier:
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Gate:

6. - Passenger: Gaston Meyer

- Time:
- Carrier: Sabena airlines
- Flight number:
- Destination:
- Action required:
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