TEXTBOOK: Business Result Upper Intermediate (Unit 1)

AUDIO: UNIT 1

Homework:
1) Writing business letters: Study the material in Major types of business correspondence and answer the questions in written form:

Questions

1. What major types of business correspondence do you know?
2. What kinds of business letter layout are you familiar with?
3. What are the major elements of a business letter?
4. Do they write return address on business letters?
5. What is the return address (or the letterhead) followed by?
6. How many lines should be left between the return address (or the letterhead) and the date?
7. Why is it recommended not to use figures when writing a date?
8. Is it necessary to write a courtesy title on the first line of the receiver’s address?
9. What can the receiver’s name be followed by?
10. What is open punctuation?
11. What should be written in the attention line? Where is this line?
12. Can the courtesy title be skipped in the salutation?
13. In what kind of business letter format a line is left between the paragraphs?
14. What are the most common complimentary closes in the US and the UK?
15. Why are four blank lines left after the complimentary close?
16. In which country colon is used after salutation?

2) Writing business letters: Study the table Cliche for business letters and complete it.

3) Business communicaion: TEXTBOOK Unit 1:

page 6, exercises 1-3

page 8-9, exercise 1-9 (audio)