4 a) Ask and answer the questions in pairs. • How do you begin letters in English?
• How do you end a letter to a close friend?
• How do you end a letter to a stranger?
• Name the main parts of a letter.
b) Read the instructions below and write a letter.
• You have just finished a short language course in Scotland. • You are writing a letter to an English-speaking friend. • Tell him or her what you did at the course, how you spent your free time and what the other people were like. • You can use the information from the timetable below and the beginning of the letter on the opposite page to help you.
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Language Language Language FREE Museum
Lessons Lessons Lessons TIME Visit
LUNCH
Sport Art FREE Language Language
TIME Lessons Lessons
Evenings: Social activities
Dear ..., I've just finisked a short language course in Scotland and I want to tell you all about it
Customer (клиент) : I'd like a table for one, please.
Waiter: Right this way. Here you are.
Customer: Thank you. Can I have a menu?
Waiter: Here you are. My name's John and I'm your waiter today. Would you like to hear today's specials?
Customer: Certainly.
Waiter: Well, our today's starter is chowder soup and today's main course is salmon and chips.
Customer: Salmon and chips? Is the fish fresh?
Waiter: Yes it is. It came straight from our own fishing vessels.
Customer:Alright, I'd like the Salmon and chips.
Waiter: Would you like to have the starter soup?
Customer: Actually, I would like to have something else.
Waiter: Why don't you try our salad? Most customers order our fresh green salad.
Customer:Okay, I want to have the fresh green salad.
Waiter: Very good. Would you like something to drink?
Customer: Oh, I'd like a pineapple juice, please.
Waiter: OK. So that's a green salad, Salmon and chips and pineapple juice.
Customer:Yes, that's right.
Waiter: Here is your food. Thank you and enjoy your lunch.
Customer:Thank you.
2. Each student will come to school with portable computers instead of bags.
3. All the classrooms will be equipped with hi-tech devices.
4. In modern laboratories pupils will make wonderful experiments.
5. There will be clubs for those who are intersted in science, art or sport.
6. Pupils will take more active part in governing the school.
7. The best pupils will sometimes teach younger pupils the subjects they excelled at.
8. There will be a dancing school instead of physical education for those who will want to dance nicely.
9. The school will be decorated with works of its pupils.
10. Pupils and teachers will be good friends.