• greeting; mention receiving your friend’s letter; express sympathy.
• give your advice and the reasons for it.
• closing remarks: end the letter offering some encouragement/wishing the person good luck; express certainty that things will get better soon.
Write a letter of at least 150 words.
work), so they (4) (were) poor but very happy. In 1985 they (5)
(moved) to London and my grandfather (6) (built) a
house there. He (7) (died) in 1998 and my grandmother lives
with us now.
B 0 A What story ___did you read yesterday ?
B Yesterday? I read a ghost story.
1 A What about your mother ?
B My mother? She lost her bag.
2 A Where did you go on Saturday ?
B On Saturday? We went to the cinema.
3 A What time did you come home yesterday?
B Yesterday? I was at home at 10 p.m.
C 0 man men
woman women
1 father mother
2 waiter waitress
3 son daughter
4 male female
5 king queen
6 aunt uncle
D 0 I always get up at 6 o’clock in the morning.
1 My parents came back/in and saw the dogs on the sofa.
2 It was very late. She turned off the television and went to sleep.
3 I want to find out all the facts about Apollo 11.
E Complete the sentences with the correct words. The first letter of each word is given.
0 A _cheetah__ is a big cat. It can run very fast and lives in Africa.
1 Spain tried to invade England in the sixteenth century .
2 Science fiction stories are often about the future.
3 The invention of the computer was a very important event.
4 World War II finished in 1945.
Crosses the threshold of the white Queen of Winter, the patron of ice winds, the mistress of the sleeping Kingdom. Replacing the wet gloomy November, winter immediately sets its own rules. The nature in the winter of carefully covered with snow cover, pulling the chains of ice, the winter will be long to keep her dream. If the November still not resistant to snowfalls and snow cover are not so many, the coming of winter can be characterized by the loss of large quantities of snow. Already by the beginning of December the growth of cover noticeable by the volume of snow, which appear along the roads, increase of snow is about 30 cm. The smaller days pleases us a month, and all the more long become a cold night, when the temperature suddenly falls down.
With the loss of a large quantity of snow, the first short-term frosts. The nature in the winter wears a white coat, snow falls asleep once green lawns, trees are dressed in flowing white dresses, forest tracks are impassable, the ice falls of snow. Winter nature quiet and silent, the only sound of a rare song of winter birds, Yes dry snap of a twig in the winter forest. The weather in December is one of the winter and the severe, sometimes happen thaw, but the temperature is stable negative with occasional frosts and down to -20 degrees C. And despite frequent thaws and the volatility of negative temperatures, cold Arctic wind all the more will chill the air. Winter still show its austere character.