THE MOBILE PHONE

• Parts
• The ringtone
• The loudspeaker
• on the phone
• Is that Silvia?  (are you S, is it S?)
• Hello, it's Silvia  (here is S, I am  S)
• Hold the line please

• Actions
• To dial out
• To dial the wrong number
• to hang on = hold on
• To get through somebody 
• It's hard to get through my parents
• To put through somebody
• To leave a message
• To press a key / a button
• to call somebody back / ring back
• To hang up = to ring off= to put the phone down
• It got cut off
• text messaging
• To barely use my mobile phone
• A long distance call
• The line  was engaged ll the time 
• To speak  loudly  / to speak  in a low  voice / to speak softly 

A mobilaholic = to be  hooked = addicted to
To check your email  ON the mobile

• Abbreviations
• ASAP ( as soon as possible)
• BTW (by the way)
• ROTFL (rolling on the floor- laughing)
•  ICBW (it could be worse)

• Opinions
• Mobiles have been a bad thing for...
• One of the objections  to the use of ...
• If pushed to make a choice, I'd come down on the side of mobile phones
• The advantages  outweigh the disadvantages