Letter 2

Dear Dr. …:

It is a pleasure to receive your letter dated March 17, 2005 from which I am happy to learn that you have established a new journal. From the numerous issues your journal intends to raise I can immediately see its importance and value in developing this branch of science.

It is very kind of you to suggest collaboration with your journal and submit papers for publication. I have also asked some researchers in this country to contribute papers to your journal, and I hope you will hear from them soon. Their names are: Prof…, Prof…, Dr. … They are interested in your journal and wish it much success.

I look forward to hearing from you again.

Sincerely yours,

Name

Letter 3

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of March 23 and for the circular letter en­closed. We enjoyed reading about the photographic observational and computational techniques for keeping track of the minor planets, which were elaborated at your computing centre.

We greatly appreciate your kind invitation to participate in the Inter­national Cooperative Observational and Computational Program. Our Computing Centre will give full support to this program and contrib­ute to the methods of keeping track of the minor planets.

Yours faithfully

Name

Letter 4

Dear Dr. … ,

I wish to inform you that I have received your letter of 10 February, 2003 in which you invited me to participate in the 3rd International Congress on … to be held in …, July 3-9, 2005.

It gives me great pleasure to accept your invitation. From the list of topics enclosed I have chosen … and will present a paper under the title … .

Sincerely Yours,

Name

Here are some more samples how to accept an invitation:

I am delighted to accept an invitation of the American Physical Society to participate in the conference on space research.

I am pleased to accept an invitation to the Congress on Hot Plasma and would like to contribute to the session on plasma instabilities.

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to the symposium on Optic Fibers.

I accept your invitation with great pleasure.

I am pleased to receive your invitation to … .

I appreciate very much your invitation to … .

TASKS

1. Write a letter in which you:

a) thank the Organizing Committee for inviting you to participate in the conference;

b) give the title of your poster paper;

c) ask about the program and the deadline for submitting abstracts.

2. Write a letter in which you:

a) acknowledge the receipt of an imitation to submit a paper for publication in the Journal of …;

b) express gratitude for the invitation;

c) provide the title of your paper.

Read the samples of an unfavorable reply to an invitation letter and note the phrases that decline an invitation.

Letter 1

Dear Professor … :

I received your letter of August 3 inviting me to participate in the Xth Congress of Physiologists in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, I will not be able to take part in it as I have a number of urgent matters to attend to in this country.

As far as my report is concerned, I have asked Dr. … of the Institute of Physiology to read my paper and to pass on to you the text for publication in the Proceedings of Physiology.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Name