Практичне заняття № 9

Тема. Пошта. Телефон. The Post-Office. Telephone

Мета: вивчити лексичні одиниці з теми. Обговорення теми.

Topical Vocabulary

General Post-Office, General Delivery, Parcel Post, Money Orders, Registered Letter, Book Post, Repair Bureau, Inquiry Bureau (office),The Trunk Service\ the Long Distance Telephone Service, The Trunk-Call Office, Inter-Continental Telephone Service.

Letter-box, pillar-box, mail, wire, postcard, addressee, envelope, stamp, pension, allowance, licence, booklet, slot, postal order, money order, payee, cash on delivery, power of attorney, proxy, printed form, receipt, reply-paid telegram, insured and otherwise, ordinary delivery, rate, per word, reduced charge, sender, registration and insurance, weight.

Verbs: to fill in, to deliver, to issue, to make a trunk call, to hand, to weigh, to dial, to cash, to run all-night service, run service, to obliterate, to send.

Telephone: operator, wall set\desk set telephone, call box\telephone booth, emergency call, dailling tone, wrong number, telephone subscriber, telephone directory\telephone book, trunk call\long-distance call.

Verbs: to speak (to talk) to someone on (over) the telephone, to phone someone, to phone\to ring up\to call up\ to make a call, to ring back\ to call back, to ring up from a call-box, to put a coin into the slot, to press (to push) the button, to dial a number, to use one’s telephone, to get smb. on the phone, number is engaged, to ring off, to be cut off, to be disconnected, to be connected with the number.

Parcel Post

At every Post Office there is a Parcel Post Service which deals with inland parcels and parcels sent abroad. The rate of postage for a parcel depends upon the weight of the parcel and the distance it is to be sent. The Parcel Post Service between our country and others countries is subject to various regulations. The maximum weight of a parcel is 10 kg and the size is 70x70x70 cm.

Letters and parcels may be registered with or without declared value. The fee for registration and insurance in each case is different. They also may be sent by air; again the fee in each case may be different.

Telegraph

There are two types of telegram service in our country: ordinary and urgent. The charge for inland telegrams, is correspondingly ____ and___ per word. The tariff per word for telegrams abroad is higher. The address of the receiver is charged for, but not that of the sender, which, by the way, is written at the foot of the telegram form. You are nor restricted in the quantity of words, but as you pay for every word you out to know to write a telegram omitting, as much as possible unnecessary words such as prepositions and the like.

Telegrams may be sent: to be called for; to be delivered to the addressee in person; to be delivered to the addressee at an appointed time; to be delivered by special delivery; with (a) reply prepaid; with a notification of delivery. The latter means that the sender should be informed by whom an when the telegram was received. Література: [3, c. 242-247; 2, c. 406].