16 Your company wants to place an order with the brick-making plant. Write the letter of inquiry in which you should ask about:
consignment;
terms of payment and discounts;
terms of delivery;
terms of guarantee delivery within a certain period of receiving orders.
Look at the example of the letter of inquiry and use expressions from Appendix 3.
17 A) Study the table, match the words and use them in your own sentences or situations:
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b) Put the following words into the certain gaps (___): oak (2), handles, panes, drafts, mortgage, walls, mantelpiece, grooves, garage.
c) Read and translate the dialogue:
Customer: I would like to order a countryside house. Here is the project.
Foreman: Let’s see. A two-storey house with a 1)____. Ten rooms and two staircases. What will the foundation be made of? Concrete?
C.: Yes, ferro-concrete.
F.: And what about the 2)____?
C.: I want red brick walls. The windows are large. By the way, the 3)_____should be airtight. I want them to be double-glazing.
F.: We’ll make them hermetic with putty. We put it in the 4)_____, and then fix the panes.
C.: Excellent. The hinges and 5)_____should be bronze.
F.: Ok. What type of roof would you like?
C.: I want the roof to be flat, with a small garden.
F.: Do you have an interior designer?
C.: Yes, but the 6)_____aren’t ready.
F.: What idea does he have?
C.: There will be a 7)_____in the hall and the walls will be decorated with panels.
F.: Plastic panels?
C.: Oh, no. Panels must be made of wood.
F.: What wood do you prefer?
C.: I think, 8)____is the best.
F.: How do you pay the construction?
C.: I’ve got a 9)____for 25 years from the bank.
F.: So we’ll make 10)____panels then.
d) Learn the dialogue by heart.
18 Study the Table 3.1 and find information about each property:
Table 3.1 Physical Properties of Brick
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF BRICK
Compressive strength
Water absorption and suction
Moisture and thermal movement
Thermal conductivity
Fire
resistance
Acoustic properties
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19 Work in pairs. Student A will talk about the following question for about two minutes. Student B will comment briefly on what has been said and add something new. Use the linking words/phrases from Appendix 2.
The questions for discussion:
Brick fence: pros and cons.
Environmental problems as a result of brick manufacture process.
Types of bricks.
Why do people like brick houses?