Task 1. Read the letter written by a student.
30 Linnaen Street
Cambridge
Boston
USA
14th May
Dear Claude,
How are you? It was very kind of you taking me to airport by your car and I’m very grateful. There I met one of my friends and we enjoyed very much talking together. Now I’m studying English again in America.
When I arrived in Rio all the family was there to take me including the dog. We talked for hours. But I miss you and the other students of the school in England and I want to come back there.
If Laura comes back this term, tell her to write to me. Give my best wishes to our teacher too.
Please write to me at my address above
Yours with affection,
Pedro
P.S. Why don’t you come to Boston to see me? I’m going to stay here until 2nd July and then return to Brazil.
Task 2. Read the Nancy’s letter of application to Worldwatch. Mind the peculiarities of a formal letter.
17 Hillside Rd Chesswood Herts. WD3 5LB Tel 01923 284171 Fax 01923 286622
Thursday 17 January
David Benton
WorldWatch UK Ltd
357 Ferry Rd
Basingstoke RG2 5HP
Dear Mr. Benton,
I saw your advertisement for a Business Journalist in today's Guardian newspaper. I am very interested in the job and I think that I have many of the necessary skills. I have studied politics and modern languages at Oxford University. I am a specialist in French, German and Spanish. I have gone widely around Europe and South America, and I have worked as a business journalist
for the BBC corporation the last five years.
I enclose a copy of my curriculum vitae. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Please let me know if you need more information.
Yours sincerely
Nancy Mann
Nancy Mann
- In what other ways can you begin and end formal letters?
In what ways can you begin and end informal letters?
Where is Nancy's address written?
Where is the address of the company she's writing to?
In what other way can you write the date?
Where does Nancy sign her name? Where does she print her name?
- There are three paragraphs. What is the aim of each one?
Task 3. Arrange the parts of the official letter in the right order.
Food machines
James Sawyer, Sales Manager, Electro Ltd, Perry Road Estate, Oxbridge UN54 42KF
6 Pine Estate, Bedford Road, Bristol, UB28 12BP
6 Pine Estate, Bedford Road, Bristol, ub28 12bp
Telephone 9036 174369 Fax 9036 36924 6 August
Dear Mr. Sawyer,
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Tramp
Sales Manager
Thank you for your letter. I am afraid that we have a problem with your order. Unfortunately, the manufacturers of the part you wish to order have advertised us that they cannot supply it until November. Would you prefer us to supply a substitute, or would you rather wait until the original pats are again available?
Task 4. Say what kind of official letter is the following.
…………………………………………………………………………………… We are a large record store in the centre of Manchester and would like to know more about the CDs and DVDs you advertised in last month’s edition of Hi Fi. Could you tell us if the products are leading brad names, or made by small independent companies, and if they would be suitable for recording classical music, games and video? We would appreciate it if you send us some samples. ……………………………………………………………………………………
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Memo
CV
Letter of inquiry / request
Contract
Task 5. Put the right variant into the blanks.
Dear Mr. Green,
Further to our telephone 1 I am writing to confirm that the Managing Director of KNOT Ltd Mr. Brite is 2 in Deli on 2 May at 9.30 a. m. on East Airlines flight EA 767. I would be grateful if you could 3 a single room for him for four nights in a first-class hotel near his office. Besides, I will be glad to have 4 of their charges. Please let me know about the arrangement of Mr. Brite’s visit in more details.
Sally Night
Head of Administration
arriving
details
conversation
book
Task 6. Match the questions under A with the answers under B.
A: 1. Did you have a good holiday/vacation last year?
2. What did you do?
3. Where did you go?
4. Did you go there alone or with your friends?
5. Did you go there by train or by plane?
6. How long did it take you to get there?
7. Was it difficult to get tickets?
8. How long did you stay there?
9. What did you do in the evenings?
10. What places did you visit there?
11. Which of those places did you like best of all?
12. Did you make friends during your travelling?
13. What was the most interesting episode of your travel?
14. What was the weather like?
15. You enjoyed your vacation, did you?
16. Did you take any pictures?
B: a. It was rather difficult to buy tickets.
b. We danced or watched TV.
c. I made friends with my neighbours during our travelling.
d. We visited places of interest.
e. Yes. I did. I had a wonderful time.
f. I bathed in the sea and went to pick mushrooms in the mountains.
g. I liked the aqua park best of all.
h. We stayed there for a month.
i. It took us 2 hours to get there.
j. I went there by plane.
k. I went there with my friends.
l. I went to the South.
m. We enjoyed our vacation very much.
n. We took many pictures of the places we visited.
o. The weather was fine.
p. The most interesting episode was our walking into the mountains.
Task 7. Say what one can buy:
at the hosiery department, at the millinery department, at the leather goods department, at the glass-ware department, at the knitted goods department, at the stationary department, at the furniture department, at the ready-made clothes department, at the haberdashery department.
Task 8. Say where one can buy:
high-heeled shoes, a dress, a pair of gloves, stockings and tights, a sweater, a blouse and a skirt, paper and pens, a hat and a cap, a coffee-set, a dinner table, a suit-case and a brief-case, scents and powder, a tea-set, a scarf, socks, sandals and strong walking shoes, a coat, lace and thread.
Task 9. Say what the following shops and tradesmen sell:
the butcher, the fruiterer, the grocer, the greengrocer, the confectioner, the dairy, the fishmonger, the poulterer, the cake shop
Task 10. Say at what shops we can buy the following:
ham and sausage; sugar and coffee; beef and mutton; chicken and geese; smoked and pickled fish; potatoes, onions and carrots; grapes and pears; milk and sour cream; cakes and pies; toffees; candies and chocolates; curds and sweet cream; tea; eggs; flour; sunflower oil; turkey and ducks; beetroot and cabbage; oranges and apples; cheese and cream; green peas and tomatoes.
Task 11. Read and translate the following proverbs. Give their Russian equivalents. Make up dialogues illustrating them.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
His eyes are bigger than his stomach.
Tastes differ.
Hunger is the best sauce.
As hungry as a wolf.
Task 12. Match the place names with their definitions:
1. Buckingham Palace a. contains more than 2,000 British and European
Paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries
2. The Strand b. a major London street between the Houses
of Parliament and Trafalgar Square containing
government offices
3. British Museum c. criminals, film stars, all kinds of famous
people made of wax
4. Trafalgar Square d. a well-known street in Central London, centre
of London’s busiest districts for shopping,
theatres and cinemas
5. Whitehall e. the seat of the British Government
6. Tower of London f. a main thoroughfare in Central London
7. The Cenotaph g. the clock tower on the Houses of Parliament,
the clock itself
8. Houses of Parliament h. a church in London founded in 1065
9. Piccadilly Circus i. famous for the Crown Jewels, prisons, arms
10. St. Paul’s Cathedral j. a square in Central London containing a
monument to Admiral Nelson
11. Big Ben k. the memorial to the dead of the two world
wars in Whitehall in London
12. Westminster Abbey l. Christopher Wren’s great church
13. National Gallery m. home of the Royal Family (residence of the
Queen)
14. Madame Tussaud’s n. full of interesting things from the past and
the present, from Britain and the rest of the world
IX. Find the odd man out.
House of Commons, House of Lords, Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing St.
St. Andrew, St. David, St. Paul, St. George, St. Patrick
Hebrides, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire.
Lake District, The Midlands, East Anglia, London.
The Thames, the Severn, the Tyne, Ben Nevis.
Snowdon, the Pennines, Ben Nevis, the Isle of Man.
Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London h) Whitehall, Ulster, The Strand, Fleet Street.
East End, City, Parliament, West End.
Red rose, thistle, bagpipe, shamrock, daffodil.