Talking points

1.Read, translate and dramatise the following dialogues:

1.

Customer: Where can I cash this postal order?

Clerk: Right here, sir. Please sign your name at the bottom. Here is the money.

C: Thank you.

Cl: Thank you.

2.

C: I would like to register the letter. What is the postage?

Cl: Is it for the Continent?

C: No, it’s an inland one.

Cl: Let me have it weighted. It will come to 3.5 dollars.

C: And what’s the postage on ordinary letters for the Continent?

Cl: Twopence-halfpenny.

C: And on postcards?

Cl: Three halfpenny.

C: And if I want to send them by air mail?

Cl: It’s 6 dollars for letters and 4 dollars for postcards.

3.

C: I want to send a telegram, where can I get a form?

Cl: You will find telegram forms over there; fill one up in ink and hand it in at the next counter.

C: How much will it cost me to send this telegram to Germany?

Cl: Let me see, how many words… Sixteen words at 3 dollars a word.

C: And I want the telegram to reach the addressee by tonight.

Cl: It will, don’t worry. Here is the receipt.

C: Thank you.

4.

C: I should like to send a money order. When will the payee get it, if I send it right away?

Cl: Tomorrow by afternoon delivery, about 2 p.m.

C: Will he be able to cash it the same day?

Cl: Certainly, provided the mail finds him at home. In case he is too busy, he can do it by proxy, giving someone a letter of attorney with his signature properly witnessed.

5.

T: Good morning.

C: Good morning, sir. What can I do for you?

T: I want to send this parcel.

C: Put it on the scales, please. That’ll be 25 pence.

T: Right. And I want three five-penny stamps, please. …And how much do I have to put on a postcard to Denmark?

C: It’s three pence for a postcard to the Continent.

T: Thank you. I’ll take two threepenny stamps, please.

C: That comes to forty-six pence, sir.

T: O.K. Here’s a pound note. I’m sorry I haven’t anything smaller.

C: That’s all right, sir. Fifty-four pence change.

T: Thank you. Oh, I forgot. I want a postal order for eighty pence.

C: Right, sir.

6.

T: Six fivepenny stamps, please, and a large registered envelope.

C: Will this size do?

T: Yes, thank you, that’s just right. Would you mind telling me what the postage on this letter will be?

C: Five pence by ordinary post, or ten pence, if you want to register it.

7.

• There must be a letter for me… Here is my passport.

• There are two letters for you. Here they are. Here is your passport.

• Thank you.

8.

• There is a money order for you.

• Here is my passport. Shall I fill in a form?

• Yes, please. Don’t forget to sign the form.

• I won’t.

2.Make up your own dialogues, using the dialogues above and the topical vocabulary below.

How much is the postage for a letter to…? I’d like to send this letter by… special delivery air mail I want to insure (register) this letter. - For how much do you want it insured? Where can I drop the letter? Where is the nearest pillar-box? Where is the general delivery window? Are there any letters for me, please? What identity paper have you got? Will you, please, fill in the form for me Make it… an urgent telegram a high letter telegram (AmE) a regular telegram

Скільки коштує марка для листа в...? Я хотів би відправити листа терміновою доставкою авіапоштою - Я хочу відправити цього листа цінним (за замовленням) В скільки Ви його оціните? - Де я можу опустити листа? - Де найближча поштова скринька? Де можна отримати листа до запитання? Подивіться, будь ласка, чи не має для мене листів. - Який у Вас є документ? Заповніть, будь ласка, бланк за мене Відправте її... терміново за пільговим тарифом звичайною

UNIT 9

Grammar: Peculiarities of Using the Passive Voice Topic: At the Doctor Reading: Text. At the Dentist’s Talking Points