Every sort of damage — the insurance call
Paperwork English: insurance, property, record, error — calm words for a bad day.
New core words in this lesson
covercrushdamagedestructionerroreventforminsurancenumberpossibleprobablepropertyrecordsexsmashsortviolent
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Hello, yes — I need to make a request on my house insurance.
- 2Last night's wind was violent — it took half the roof off.
- 3A tree came down too, and crushed the garden wall.
- 4The glass in the back door is smashed, and there's water everywhere.
- 5What sort of damage? Every sort, that's what sort!
- 6Yes, I have a record of everything — pictures, times, all of it.
- 7Please give me your insurance number.
- 8Now the form: full name, house, year of birth... and it's asking for my sex? Fine — male.
- 9Slowly, please — one error on this form and we start again.
- 10Is the damage covered? Please say the roof is covered.
- 11You're saying no one is responsible for the wind? True enough.
- 12So it's possible I get the money this month — and probable I don't?
- 13This event took half my roof and all my sleep.
- 14I've seen wind before, but this was destruction — the garden house is just gone.
- 15My property, my roof, my trees — please, just send the man with the papers.
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