2. Letters of Invitation

Vocabulary

It gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the Jubilee celebration of ..

On behalf of the Organizing Committee may I invite you to participate in ...

The Institutes of Physics officially invites you to deliver a series of lectures on …

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to make a poster presentation at the 17^th International Conference in Hamburg …

Accepting 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 Applied Linguistics and Phonology.

I accept your invitation with great pleasure.

I am pleased to receive your invitation to …

I appreciate very much your invitation to …

Declining an invitation:

Thank you for your invitation to … but I regret that I am unable to accept it as …

I am sorry to decline your kind invitation …

It is with great regret that I have to decline your invitation to …

I regret to inform you that I am not in a position to accept your invitation to…

I regret that I cannot …

I am sorry to inform you that …

Tasks

1. Read the samples of invitation letters and highlight the common phrases used in such letters. Translate them into Russian.

Letter 1

Dear collegues,

We would like to invite you to attend our conference “ISFD 4 - International Symposium on Ferroic Domains” in Vienna, Austria, March 25-30, 2012. 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,

Mark Kreps

Letter 2

Dear Prof. Miles,

It’s a pleasure for me to accept your invitation to participate in the symposium on Semiconductor Device Research to be held in Boston, September 2-4, 2012. The title of my paper is “Some Recent Development in High Power Devices”. This is a review of the latest research data obtained in my laboratory.

I look forward to the meeting in Boston as an opportunity for an exchange of information and ideas.

Sincerely yours,

Aleksey Volkov

2. Write a letter inviting Prof. Haus to participate in the conference on … . Inform Prof. Haus about the conference, which will be held in …, September 15-21 of the next year.

3. 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.

4. Write a letter in which you:

a) express gratitude for the invitation to …;

b) express your regret for declining the invitation because of some circumstances.