B) Fill in the words from the chart. One of them should be used twice.

PERSONAL NEWS

LESSON 1. MORNING MAIL

Communicative area: talking about the mail you get Active vocabulary: mail, a pile, to pile up, an envelope, a parcel, a package, a bill, urgent, urgently

1. Do you have an e-mail address? What's your mailing address? Do you get a lot of letters in your everyday mail?

2. a) Read a short excerpt from Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith. The main character of the book, Isabel, is the editor of a philosophical journal. How many items does her morning mail consist of?

Grace brought the morning mail through to Isabel's study. She saw there were many more letters than usual, when she laid the pile of envelopes and packages on the desk.

Isabel gasped. If she were not there, how quickly would the mail pile up, gradually filling room after room, until the house itself was full?

"Twenty-five letters today," said Grace. "I counted them. Ten manuscripts - ten! Four parcels that look like books, one of them extremely heavy. And eleven letters, of which three are bills, in my opinion.

Isabel thanked her. It had become something of a ritual in recent months for Grace to attend the opening of the mail and for Isabel to hand on to her those items that could be placed straight into recycle pile.

b) What does the underlined word mean? Why does Isabel get a lot of manuscripts?

A) Match the words in bold with their definitions.

a) an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper, especially so that it can be sent by post

b) the letters and parcels which are transported and delivered by post, or the postal system itself

c) an object or group of objects that have been wrapped up together in paper or cardboard; a small parcel

d) a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it is written

e) a flat, usually square or rectangular, paper container for a letter

f) a mass which is high in the middle or which is made from the objects put on top of each other

g) to create a pile - a larger and larger amount of something

b) Fill in the words from the chart. One of them should be used twice.

1. She spent the morning reading and answering her ... . 2. Jack ran up a huge phone ... talking to his girlfriend for hours. 3. The bookshelves were full and there were ... of books all over the floor. 4. Because it was Granny's birthday she got Heveral... and lots of cards. 5. Isabel has got a ... of things to do today. 6. Mum, the postman has just delivered a ... for you. 7. I usually buy notepaper and ... in this shop. 8. My homework iiHually ... by the weekend.

<1 a) Complete the paragraph below with the words from the chart.

1. Usually I don't get a lot of ... as I don't like writing tradi­tional letters. I love getting them, though. I especially like the ritual of opening the ... and starting to read the letter. I've even bought a special funky knife for opening letters.

2.1 don't get a lot of ... either. A year ago, at Christmas the postman delivered a nice little ... to my door. I thought it was a Christmas present from some secret admirer. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a mistake - the address was written incor­rectly and the name was different.

3. In my post box you can mostly find .... They ... by the end of the month when, eventually, I get rid of the ... by paying them.

4. Oh, I write and get lots of emails every day. But it's a dif­ferent story.

Br. E.: post, post box, postman; Am. E.: mail, mailbox, mailman

Date: 2015-12-18; view: 1074