Practice 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The following table gives statistics showing the aspects of quality of life in five countries.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the table below.
You should write at least 150 words.
Practice 3 ● You work for an international company in Los Angeles. You have arranged to meet a colleague, Carole Buckley, in the New York office on 3 February.
● Write an email to your colleague:
● confirming the date of your visit to New York
● suggesting what time the meeting should start
● inviting her to dinner after the meeting.
● Write about 30-40 words on your Answer Sheet.
Practice 8 (1) Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.
Practice 1 Directions: Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use your own words. I was driving home the other day on a sunny afternoon. I had a smile on my face as I sang along to the songs on the radio. It was such a beautiful day that I felt full of happiness. My good mood ended, however, when the radio station took a news break between songs. Then suddenly I found myself listening to yet another story of a rich famous man who had broken the law. I shook my head as I came to a red traffic light. As I pulled to a stop I noticed four leather-jacketed bikers. They were standing in the middle of the road with two on either side of the light. They looked rough and dangerous, but as I got closer I noticed each one was holding their helmet in their hands. I rolled down my window as one approached my car. “We are the Brother of the wheel,” he said. “We are collecting money for Christmas Toy Drive for needy children.” As I pulled a dollar out of my wallet I looked past his beard and into his eyes. They shined with goodness and kindness that came right from his soul. I dropped the money in his helmet and waved to the other bikers as I drove off. My good mood had returned. My faith in mankind had been strengthened. And I remembered once again never to judge people by their appearance.
Practice 2 You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic: Many people are busy with work and do not have enough time to spend with families and friends. Why does this happen? What are the effects of this on family life and society as a whole? You should write at least 250 words.
Practice 6 ● You recently attended a two-day training course on food and safety. You were disappointed with the course and you have decided to write a letter of complaint to the training company.
● Read the advertisement below, which gives details of the course. You have already made some notes on the advertisement.
● Then, using all your handwritten notes, write your letter to Peter Clinton at GBG Certification Services.
● Do not include postal addresses.
● Write 120—140 words on a separate sheet.
Practice 12 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so,: much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
—Booker T. Washington
Assignment: Is the struggle endured to achieve success more important than the accomplishment itself? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Practice 1
Task:
Identifying oneself; identifying things/people; passing on information.
Practice 4 ● Mr. White is going to order a large amount of commercial computers from your company. He also shows an interest in your company’s electrostatic copier, which is in the charge of Mr. Blair, your colleague. Mr. White would like to bring 8 samples and some specifications back home to make a trial sale.
● Write a note to Mr. Blair, one of your colleagues.
● Telling him the fact that Mr. White is interested in electrostatic copier.
● Mentioning the number he wants to have.
● Suggesting their direct contact.
● Write 30-40 words on your answer sheet.
Practice 3
It used to be said that English people take their pleasures sadly. No doubt this would still be true if they had any pleasures to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the habit of taking pleasures sadly has crossed the Atlantic. And I have wondered what it is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income.
In the course of my travels in America I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the millennium would have arrived. But when I look at the faces of people in opulent cars, whether in your country or in mine, I do not see that look of radiant happiness which the aforesaid social reformers had led me to expect. In nine cases out of ten, I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded palate.
But it is not only the very rich who suffer in this way. Professional men very frequently feel hopelessly thwarted. There is something that they long to do or some public object that they long to work for. But if they were to indulge their wishes in these respects, they fear that they would lose their livelihood. Their wives are equally unsatisfied, for their neighbor, Mrs. So-and-So, has gone ahead more quickly, has a better car, a larger apartment and grander friends.
Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle where very few can win the race. and those who do not win are unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur to seem cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who had drunk too much is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.