FAXES BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE 52. FAXES

 

A Sending faxes Jaime Vasconcelos in Los Angeles, USA is on the phone to Anna Friedman in Sydney, Australia. B Fax layout C Receiving faxes Anna: Did you get my fax? Jaime: You’re not going to believe this, but the paper got stuck and the machine jammed. Anna: No problem. I’ll send it through again 15 minutes later……. Jaime: Did the fax go through OK this time? Anna: Yes, but pages two and three weren’t legible: I couldn’t read them. Jaime: No problem. I’ll resend them. EXERCISES 52.1 Bertil Lagerkvist of Moda Fahions in Stockholm is talking to Kim Wang of Outrageous Designs in Hong Kong. Look at A opposite and correct the mistakes. 52.2 Kim Wang sends a fax to Stockholm. The person receiving the fax phones Kim. Read what is said, and complete the statements using expressions from B opposite. 1. ‘Swedish Paper Products here. We’ve received a fax from you to a company called Moda Fashions. Our fax numbers are very similar. There must be some mistake.’ Swedish Paper Products (SPP) are not the ________ ________, and so they tell the person sending the fax: they ________ the ________. 2. ‘The designs you received are top secret. Please could you tear them up and throw them away.’ The information is ________. Kim wants SPP to ________ the fax so that no one else can see it. 52.3 Kim Wang sends the fax again, this time to correct number. Complete the commentary, choosing appropriate forms of the expressions in brackets from B and C opposite. There were no problems when she __________ (1. send again/ resend) the fax. The fax __________ ________(2. send through/ go through) perfectly: the paper __________ __________ (3. not get stuck/ not get through) and the machine __________ __________ (4. legible/ jam). Kim did not have to _______ anything __________ (5. go through/ send through) again. The fax was __________ (6. legible/ stuck) and Bertil could read it.

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