II. Write your own business letter based on the sample.

The Secretary, 2^ndFebr, 2006

The Western Wheat Co.Plc, (The date)

64, Darwin Road,

LIVERPOOL.16

England

(The inside address)

Dear Sir,

(The opening Salutation)

Abt: ORDER No.1367

(The Subject Heading)

We thank you for your letter of 23^rd of January and are writing to inform you that....

(The Opening paragraph)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(The body of the Letter)

We hope to establish fruitful business relations with your company and expect your reply as soon as possible.

(The Closing Paragraph)

Yours faithfully,

(The Complim entary Closing)

per pro, THE ORIENTAL TRADING CO.

J. Brown

Manager

(The Signaturе)

Enc: Invoice (2 pages)(Enclosures and postscripts)

Transportation documents

I. Read and translate the text.

Transportation documents are usually attached to commercial invoices as a proof of shipment which also enables the buyers to receive the goods. Transportation documents include bills of lading, air waybills, railway bills, road carriage bills and others depending on the mode of transportation used.

Since sea and river shipments are considered most economical, they are most often used and bills of lading are thus most popular transportation documents.

Bills of lading usually contain the following details:

• name of consignor

• name of consignee

• name of vessel

• shipping date

• weight

• measurement

• marking

• number of cases

• contents of the cases

Sometimes, when the packing is bad or the cases are damaged, the master of the ship makes a certain note of it on the bill. It makes the bill dirty then. If no notes are made on the bill it is clean.

Usually the contracts say that only clean bills of lading can be attached to the commercial invoices and thus considered a proof of shipment.

II. Retell the text.

CORRESPONDENCE OF BANKS

I. Read and translate the text.

INQUIRY

1. Gentlemen,

2. We would like to open a current account at your bank.

3. We will appreciate your informing us of your conditions in regard to interest rates, service charges, handling fees, etc.

4. Yours Sincerely

ORDER

5. Gentlemen,

6. We kindly request to open a current account for us in the name of...

7. A check for... is enclosed herein as an initial deposit.

8. We acknowledge that Mr... and Mr... have the right to sign jointly (individually) our newly opened account on our behalf.

9. Their signatures are:

10. Mr...:

11. Mr...:

12. Yours sincerely

13. Enclosure:

14. Сheck

REQUEST FOR CREDIT

15. Gentlemen,

16. Please let us know about conditions for granting a credit on our current account in the amount of...

17. Our merchandise in stock which has an approximate value of ... will be used as collateral.

18. We would greatly appreciate an early reply.

19. Yours sincerely

OPENING AN ACCOUNT

20. Since we intend to do business with you, we would be grateful if you provided us by a current account.

21. Hereby is the request to open a current account at your bank in the name of...

22. The following persons are empowered to sign all documents.

23. … (name)

24. … (signature)

25. All correspondence is to be directed to ...

26. Bank statements are to be mailed daily /weekly/ monthly/ at the end of year.

27. Payments received from third parties are to be forwarded by mail immediately.