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UNIT 1 New things

1.1 Direct and indirect questions

Key to Writing: A review

ANALYSING THE MODEL

b. Read the book review. In which paragraph...

The strongest points of the book - 3
The basic outline of the plot - 2
What happens in the end - DS
Where and when the story is set -1
The weakness(es) of the book - 3
Wether the reviewer recommends the book or not - 4
who the author is - 1
Who the main characters are - 2
How much the book costs - DS
Who the book will appeal to - 4

c. Look at these extras from a first draft...

answers: which is,  who are,   and   which was   have been left out

d. Rewrite the sentences...

1. Believing him to be murderer...
2. Armelle, forced to marry a man she did not love...
3. Simon, realizing (that) the police...
4. First published in 1903, it has been...
5. Hearing the shot, ...
6. Based on his wartime diaries,...

USEFUL LANGUAGE

e. Underline the adverbs of degree... What effect do they have on the adjectives?

Answer: totally increases the strength of the adjective and slightly reduces the strength of the verb.

f. Cross out adverbs...

1. ok
2. very should be crossed out. It can't be used with strong adjectives like fascinating, amazing, etc... 
3. ok
4. inceredibly and extremely should be crossed out. like very they can't be used with strong adjectives. they are used with normal adjectives as stronger intensifiers than very 

How to write a letter of complaint

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/letters-of-complaint

KEY to Writing letter of complaint

ANALYSING THE MODEL 

b. Read the model formal email...

It's a complaint about a meal in a restaurant. The xact problems were slow service, the fact that they wer asked to leave just after they had been brought the dessert, and the cost of the dishes the waiter recommended, which were not on the menu.

c. Discuss which phrases...

1. b (more formal and avoid using contractions)
2. a (avoid emotional language)
3. a (more formal verb)
4. b (formal fixed phrase)
5. b (more formal adjective, more precise, less vague)
6. a (formal phrase)
7. a (use of passive is less confrontational)
8. b (passive is les personal and confrontational)
9. a (more formal verb)
10. a (less agressive and demanding)

USEFUL LANGUAGE 

1. I am writing to complain...
2. ... according to our online reservation...
3. ... the waiter not only wrote us the bill, but also asked us to hurry...
4. I feel strongly that if customers are given a table...
5. I look forward to hearing your views on this matter.

PLANNING WHAT TO WRITE

The hotel that Hanna had booked was turning into a B & B, so there were noisy builders, a cold breakfast as the kitchen wasn't open, no room service or evening meal, and the manager wasn't available.

    

key to grammar bank 9A ellipsis

a. cross out the words.....

1. like it
2. win
3. taken it
4. I
5. come to dinner / come
6. go
7. be able to go
8. we

b. complete with the right modal...

1. is
2. will
3. am
4. didn't
5. would
6. must / should
7. can't
8. does

c. Respond to the first...

1. hope not
2. used to
3. suppose not 
4. 'll try to
5. guess so
6. 've always wanted to
7. told him not to
8. imagine so

key to reading pg. 84 In defence of Not liking animals

c. Now read the article ...

3- his attitude to dogs
1- his current feelings...
7- future plans...
5- people's preferences
2- his general attitude to cats
6- his children's attitude
4- his childhood experience...

d. Read the article again...

1. a
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. c
6. a

e. lexis in context

1. I am content
2. I am positively averse
3. care very little about
4. adore
5. I was sceptical
6. I can live with that