Study the list of the sentences which have been removed, decide what sentence was in each gap.

1. "Because many people don't know how to write a telegram."

2. "Sending a telegram?"

3. "You are", I answered.

4. Let me see your telegram.

5. Your wife must know it without any instructions.

6. ... the hotels were not crowded that year...

7. The telegram said...

Telegram

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon I went to the nearest post-office. I bought some stamps and an envelope to send a registered letter to my parents. When I was writing a telegram I saw a friend of mine, Briggs.

"________________________?" he asked. "May I see it?"

"Why do you want to see it?" I asked.

“________________________. They write out a message, then they get angry that it costs a lot.______________, I shall make it shorter and leave only the most important things".

I gave him the telegram. It was a message to my wife to tell her that I would come to her in Switzerland.

______________: "Finished business well everything OK stop arriving Friday five thirty stop book room stop."

But the telegram didn't impress Briggs, "If you have settled your business well, doesn't it mean everything OK?"

"I think it does", I agreed.

"I have never known that you made a bad transaction yet and your wife knows it too. Am I right?"

“______________”______________.

"Did your wife have to go to Switzerland alone because you had to finish business in London?"

"Yes."

"Very well. Then it's not necessary to write business finished. So you will save three pence a word. And why are you telling her to book a room? _________________." I had to agree with him.

"So we have made the telegram eight words shorter: arriving Friday five thirty. Now what about arriving? If you write Friday five thirty, your wife will understand what you mean."

And then I had an idea. I told Briggs that I didn't have to send a telegram at all as ___________________and it was not necessary to book in room in advance. Besides I didn't like when somebody met me at the station.

"Well", said Briggs. "Do as you like, but never ask me to help you again," and he walked out of the post-office.

When he left the post-office, I took another telegram form and wrote the original text.

WRITING

Write a paragraph explaining the background for each of the following telegrams.

1) Boy. October 15. 3,5 kilos. Both well. Philip.

2) No money left. Large hotel bill. Help. Robert.

3) No letter three weeks. Mother worried. Please write immediately. Dad.

2. Write a paragraph explaining why the stamp you have commemorates the person or event. For example:

I have a stamp with a portrait of a famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Bell is an inventor of the telephone. As far as I know he is a Scotsman who settled in the United States in 1871. Bell was a teacher of the deaf in Boston. At night he experimented with a harmonic telegraph a device for sending several telegraph messages at once over one wire. On March 10, 1876, Bell succeeded in speaking words over a telephone. Scientists praised his work. But the public showed little interest until early 1877, when Bell gave many demonstrations of his telephone equipment.

Write a letter to your friend describing your experience of postal and bank services in Great Britain or in some other country. Mind the main parts of the letter and their places.

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