Oh, now that I'm typing anyway. Here's the typical exchange with our tower (EHRD, which is a controlled field, for a departure and a landing.)
DEP
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(Listen to ATIS first. Suppose identifier is India)
Me: Rotterdam Ground, PH-SVR
Ground: PVR, Rotterdam Ground, Good Morning
Me: Ground, PVR and a good morning to you too. At the vliegclub, information India. Request startup for departure.
Ground: Information India correct. QNH 1011. Startup approved. Tower on 118.2 for taxi.
Me: QNH 1011. Startup approved. Tower on 118.2. PVR
<starting up>
Me: Rotterdam Tower, PVR request taxi for departure. (Some say that I'm too quick here and that I need to call them with just my (full) callsign. Oh well. If the frequency is quiet I just go straight ahead. Tower knows I'm coming, having been told by Ground anyway.)
Tower: PVR taxi RW 24 holding point V2.
Me: Taxi 24 V2 PVR
<taxi>
Tower: PVR hold position for the boeing 737 leaving the runway
Me: Hold position PVR
Tower: PVR continue taxi
Me: Continue PVR
<taxi, runup>
Me: PVR ready for departure
Tower: PVR roger hold short
Me: Hold short PVR
Tower: PVR behind the landing 737 line up and wait. (That's always fun.)
Me: Line up and wait behind the 737. Traffic in sight. PVR (How could I not see it...)
Tower: PVR the wind 220 at 6 knots. Hotel departure 1000 feet. Report Whiskey. Runway 24 cleared take-off. (They knew I needed a Hotel departure because it was in my flightplan. Otherwise Ground would have asked for it.)
Me: Cleared take-off for a Hotel departure 1000 feet. Wilco Whiskey. PVR
Note that at EHRD the Hotel departure is 1000 feet, and Hotel arrival is 1500 feet via the same route (VOR radial). Sometimes we get confused so typically ATC will mention the altitude anyway, just to be sure.
<take off, climb out>
Me: PVR at Whiskey
Tower: PVR roger. Frequency changed approved. Bye Bye.
Me: Thank you. Frequency changed approved. PVR
ARR
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At least 10 miles out sign off with my en-route FIS, listen to the ATIS, then switch to tower frequency.
Me: Rotterdam Tower, PH-SVR
Tower: PVR, Rotterdam Tower go ahead (or standby if it's busy. I think in the UK at this point they say "pass your message")
Me: Tower, Good afternoon, PVR is west of Dordrecht, 1500 feet, information India, request Romeo arrival.
Tower: PVR roger. Information India correct. QNH 1011. Report Romeo.
Me: QHN 1011. Wilco Romeo. PVR
Note that the Romeo arrival is fully described in our procedures (in the AIP), including the altitude: Both are "keep right of the highway, 1500 feet", with various mandatory VRP on the way. Therefore there's no need to communicate the altitude here. But sometimes we do anyway.
Me: PVR is Romeo
Tower: PVR roger report Oscar
Me: Oscar next, PVR
Me: PVR is Oscar
Tower: PVR roger report Papa
Me: Papa next, PVR
Me: PVR is Papa
Tower: PVR roger cross midfield make a right downwind 24 maintain 1500 feet
Me: Cross in the middle right downwind 24 maintain 1500 PVR
Me: PVR downwind 1500. (Or right downwind 24, 1500 if there's any chance of confusion)
Tower: PVR roger maintain 1500
Me: Maintain 1500 PVR
Tower: PVR make an orbit left 360 (pronounced as three-sixty, not three-six-zero) for separation, maintain 1500
Me: Left orbit 1500 PVR
<left hand standard = 2 min turn, unless they tell me otherwise>
Me: PVR downwind again
Tower: PVR descent 1000 you are number 2 number 1 is a 737 on short final. Caution wake turbulence
Me: Descent 1000 number 2 to the boeing, traffic in sight, PVR
<now it becomes tricky. I need to judge when to turn base so that he's off the runway when I'm short final, and I need to consider his wake turbulence. Either I stay above his path, landing after where he touched down, or I sit it out for 2 minutes or so. I might even ask tower for another orbit at 1000. Anyway, I need to stay at 1000 until I turn base.>
Me: PVR turning base (I only report this when it might not be clear when I'm turning base)
Tower: PVR roger
Me: PVR final
Tower: PVR roger
Tower: PVR cleared to land 24. The wind 220 at 6.
Me: cleared to land 24, PVR
Note that my landing clearance could have been given earlier. Even on downwind. It only depends on when the 737 has left the runway.
Me: PVR vacated (only if the tower did not see that and did not issue me with any taxi instructions already)
Tower: PVR taxi Lima (which is the taxiway to our club).
Me: Negative. PVR Request taxi to the fuel station.
Tower: Okay, taxi to the fuelstation via Y.
Me: Fuelstation via Y, PVR
Me: PVR at the fuelstation, switching off
Tower: Switchoff approved, bye bye
Me: Switchoff approved, talk to you later PVR
Note that the new regulations at EHRD do not require us to ask for switchoff anymore, but we're so used to it...
Hope this helps!