LANGUAGE PRACTICE

1. Notice how you inform the company you are writing to how or where you heard about them:

 

We have seen an advertisement in this month's ‘Office News’ about your range of pocket calculators.  
a.

 

 

 
 
With reference to your advertisement in …  


b.

 

Make sentences similar to the above, informing your recipient how and where you heard about them or their products, using the words given.

a.

1. Read/article/The Financial Times/filing cabinets

2. Hear/a lot/electric typewriters

3. See/the publicity material/photocopying machines

4. Hear/from the Commercial Attaché at the British Embassy/ office equipment

5. Read/an advertisement/local newspaper/modern storage and retrieval systems

6. See/your advertisement/Milan Trade Fair/range of clothes

7. Hear/from our agent in London/leather jackets

8. Read/in the financial papers/success with Type TS8

9. Talk/your representative/possibility of buying electric cookers from you

10. Talk/our customers/suitability of your range of bathroom equipment

 

b.

1. Daily Mail / last Monday

2. Economist / last week

3. Radio Times / last Tuesday

4. Guardian / today

5. Financial Time / yesterday

 

2. Notice how you express an interest in a specific good:

We are (most) interested in type TW37.  

 


Express an interest in the following. Remember you are writing to a company.

1. Buy/type TW37 filing cabinets

2. Type SK/27 cabinets

3. Large ‘KeepIt’ bookshelves

4. A range of pocket calculators type AJ5

5. Type CSJ/7 especially

6. Electric heaters, type 2JS

7. A range of dining room tables you advertise

8. The ‘Embossed’ typewriter

9. Buy/the latest printing press type PP100A

10. The ‘Sierra’ 1100 motor car

 

3. Notice how you express an interest in more general ideas:

We are (most) interested in introducing a modern filing system in our main office.  

 

 


Express an interest in the following. Use the words below.

1. A range of kitchen furniture

2. Receive/more information about your electric typewriters

3. Introduce/a modern storage system

4. Order/twenty new office desks

5. Export/some of our business machines to the USA

6. Install/a new telex machine

7. Extend/our market to include Northern Europe

8. Increase/our supplies of photocopying paper

9. Make/an improvement in our Design Department

10. Improve/our data processing system

 

4. Notice these sentences:

 

We wish to install a new telex machine.  
a.

 

 
 
We wish to enquire into the possibility of installing a new telex machine.