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IV. Writing

Ex 1. Oliver Howard is dictating a letter to his secretary (his address is Bay House School, 19 Ingleborough Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire L42 6RD). Compare the notes with the letter of inquiry below.

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Dear Sirs

I have seen your advertisement for office equipment in the Evening Star. I would be grateful if you would send me your full catalogue and price-list.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully

ee your advertisement for office equipment in 'Evening Star' / please send full catalogue (BE) and price list

Ex 2. Write the body of three more letters of inquiry using these notes:

  1. hear about your typewriters from the commercial attaché at the British Embassy / please send more information about them

  2. talk to your representative about your equipment / please send brochure showing your range of desks

  3. see your publicity material about your range of stationary / please send your representative to visit us

Ex 3. Consider the following order letter and state which of the necessary five points it addresses and which it does not.

Dear Sirs

Please send me one of your weather vanes which I saw advertised for $34.95. We have recently repainted our garage, and a weather vane would be a wonderful finishing touch.

My check is enclosed.

Sincerely

Rewrite this letter observing the given guidelines and eliminating unnecessary redundancies.

Ex 4. Put the sentences of the scrambled letter in the right order. The letter was written as a result of an advertisement below. The first three items have not been numbered, the beginning of the last sentence has been marked with an exclamation mark.

  1. acquired subsidiary in Portugal, have been

  2. conductive to this satisfying result

  3. confirm my inquiry in writing, as you requested

  4. countries and France, and our recently

Dear Mr Lees

  1. details on our company. Please advise us

  2. expansion efforts will be of interest to you

  3. Further to our telephone conversation

  4. In the enclosure you will find more

in the Financial Times of 28 June

  1. in view of future developments

  2. in which you offer rights and licences for

  3. ! In the meantime we are

  4. looking forward to your reply

  5. Net profit of $ 1.5 – 1.75 m per annum

  6. Of that same day I would like to

  7. Our large distribution network in the Benelux

Our attention was drawn to your advertisement

  1. Our company, Body Line bv, is a growing

  2. should you require more information

  3. Venture in the field of cosmetics, with a

  4. We believe, therefore, that our continuing

  5. your cosmetics and toiletries products

  6. Yours sincerely

NATURAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS U.K. Cosmetics and toiletries manufacturer.

Overseas rights / licences available.

Contact Alan Lees.

(565) Fax 50456. Tel 765486.

Ex 5. Pappazoglou wrote a letter placing an order. The firm wrote a letter back acknowledging his order. A clerk in their Orders Department used a word processor to write the letter. But the processor was not working well. The words came out in the wrong order! Correct the letter by putting the words in the right order.

19-- October 11

Order Your No 1001/AA/FF/101

Sir Dear

You thank we for order your of 19-- October 10 for 30 AA watches digital and FF 15 clocks digital.

Confirm we that we these items in stock have, and invoice our enclose.

Look we forward to from your bank hearing. Then we inform you shall immediately the date shipment of of.

Faithfully yours,

Invoice Enc:

Ex 6. You work for a German company that sells furniture – Kurt Schiller GmbH, Freidenstrasse 44, Hamburg, West Germany. You are interested in importing hand-made sofa-beds from the U.K. You saw this advertisement in an English newspaper ‘The Guardian’

SOFASTSLEEP ON SOFA-BEDS HAND-MADE IN PINE

TO YOUR OWN ORIGINAL DESIGN

FOR AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OR FOR OUR COMPLETE RANGE OF HAND-MADE PINE FURNITURE, WRITE TO

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