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.

 

see 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.

 

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

5. details on our company. Please advise us

6. expansion efforts will be of interest to you

7. Further to our telephone conversation

8. In the enclosure you will find more

in the Financial Times of 28 June

9. in view of future developments

10. in which you offer rights and licences for

11.! In the meantime we are

12. looking forward to your reply

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

14. Of that same day I would like to

15. Our large distribution network in the Benelux

Our attention was drawn to your advertisement

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

17. should you require more information

18. Venture in the field of cosmetics, with a

19. We believe, therefore, that our continuing

20. your cosmetics and toiletries products

21. 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.

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