1. Write the following dates which are placed below the sender’s address:

The second of June, nineteen ninety-eight – …

The nineteenth of September, two thousand and four – …

The twenty-fifth of October, nineteen eighty-one – …

The third of January, two thousand and three – …

2. Correct mistakes in the following dates:

23, February, 2002 November, 2, 2005

20th of July, 2001 August 12 2004

16.2.1998 2003, January 12

3. Complete the following by indicating the dates in the body of the Letter.

I have received your letter of ……………… .

Further information will be sent to you on ……………… .

In your letter of ……………… .

The conference will last from … to ……………… .

I shall attend the conference in Moscow on ……………… .

Professor Jones is arriving in Rostov on ……………… .

4. Supply the letter with your address, the date, some suitable complimentary dose and your signature:

Dear Sir, I would be grateful if you could forward me a copy of your re­print entitled ‘Synaptic Transmitter,’ which was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 2, N2 3, 2002, pp. 290­300.

5. Correct the following letter layout:

Feb. 21, 2005

Assoc. Prof. Smirnov

Department of Physics

Rostov State University

Zorge St. 5

344090 Rostov-on-Don

Russia

Dear Dr. Johnson

I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 6 and to thank you for sending me the reprints.

V. Smirnov

Yours sincerely (signature)

Letters referred to as scientific correspondence are concerned with different situations associated with scientific meetings, publications, the exchange of scientific information, etc. Due to the objective iden­tified in the first paragraph, letters can be defined as letters of invita­tion, letters of inquiry, letters of request, etc.

II. Letters of Invitation task

Read the samples of invitation letters and note the common phrases used in such letters.

Letter 1

Dear... ,

I would like to invite you to attend our conference, ‘ISFD 4 – International Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Mesoscopic Structures’, in Vienna, Austria, March 25-30, 2005. The conference is organized by the Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Vienna and the Austrian Physical Society.

Our conference will pay for your accommodations, including full board and lodging at the conference hotel during the conference.

Beyond this, the conference organization has no financial responsibil­ity for your stay in Austria.

Looking forward to seeing you in Vienna.

Sincerely yours,

(Signature) Name

Letter 2

Second International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science srms-2 October 31 – November 4, 2005 International Conference Center Kobe Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Dear Mr…,

I am writing to invite you to participate in the above conference and to give a poster presentation on the "Local Distortion of Ideal Perovskite Structure in Knb03 Revealed by EXAFS." The conference program is attached. Further information will be mailed to you from the SRMS-2 conference secretary in about a month.

I look forward to seeing you at the conference and hope that it will be possible to build even closer collaborative links between our organiza­tions.

Sincerely yours,

(Signature) Name

Chair, Organizing Committee

SRMS-2