Business writing (деловое письмо). Палагина С.С. - 52 стр.

                                                     John Brown.

      3.13.3 Read the following informal note and use the information in it to
complete the numbered gaps in the more formal letter.Insert not more than two
words for each gap. The words which you have to insert DO NOT OCCUR in
the informal note. The exercise begins with an example (0)

      3.13.4 Informal Note:

      I’ve been asked to write a reference for Faith Good .Do you think you could
help me with it? It’s quite hard to know how to write a diplomatic reference for her as
she isn’t exactly the ideal employee. Mind you, she means well and I’d like to help
her get a good job. She passed her typing and shorthand course after all and I think
she’s good at speaking to people over the phone. She’s not bad at Spanish and she
passed her driving test last month, I believe. She’s a fitness fanatic and she always
wears the latest fashions. She’s always cracking jokes – even if some of them are
pretty terrible – and she certainly doesn’t worry in the slightest about talking to new
people. So she fits the bill as far as the job is concerned in quite a few ways. I guess I
can’t avoid mentioning her appalling spelling and the way she’s late for everything.
But I’ll finish by saying – and think this is true really – that we’d be sorry to see her
go if another company gave her a job somewhere else.

      3.13.5 Formal Letter:

     Dear Mr Brown,
     As requested (0) I am sending you a reference for Ms Faith Good. I am happy to
recommend her for the position you have advertised. She has a (1) typing and
shorthand and she has a good telephone (2). She speaks Spanish (3) and she holds a
(4). Faith is (5) at aerobics and running and she always dresses (6). She has a (7) of
humour and is (8) about meeting new people. She is certainly, therefore, in many
ways (9) for (10) that you are advertising. Although her spelling could (11) and she
tends not to be (12), we should sincerely miss her many qualities if she were to accept
(13) of employment elsewhere.
                                             Yours (14),
                                                    Jenny Smith.

      3.13.6 In the following letter Mr Watson is complaining to the manager of
a shop about the radio he bought. The radio doesn’t work. The letter is written
in a mixure of informal and formal styles. It contains many words and phrases
that are labelled (infml), (fml) or (sl)=(slang) in many dictionaries, for example,
in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Change formal words into
informal and vica versa.
     Try to avoid the mixure of styles with the help of a dictionary
                                                    The Manager
                                              Crackpot Radios Ltd

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