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![](/i/favi32.png) Get ready to readReal Reading TNotesPHOTOCOPIABLE
© Cambridge University Press 2008
2
Get students to work through the exercise. Students might
want to know why this letter does not end
Yours faithfully
– they may know that letters usually end
Yours sincerely
if
they begin with the name of the person, e.g.
Dear Ms Tashita
.
Tina Grey has probably used
Yours sincerely
because she
knows the people she is sending the letter to – and
Yours
faithfully
would be too formal and distant. Remind students
that they should use
Yours faithfully
only when the recipient is
unknown and they begin the letter with
Dear
Sir/Madam
.
3–4
Tell students to read the list of questions before they read
the letter – they cannot do the skimming task unless they
know what they are looking for. Set a two-minute time limit for
Exercise 3 to discourage students from reading every word of
the text. Students can read the text in more detail in Exercise 4.
5
You could discuss this as a whole class.
Focus on … compound nouns
Get students to work through this section in pairs. You might also
like to make the point that the two halves of some compound
nouns are separated by a hyphen. Explain that there are no rules
which determine whether a compound noun is one word, two
words or two halves separated by a hyphen. Ideally, students
should try and memorize how the noun appears in a dictionary; it
is not the end of the world if they do not: native speakers might
write the same compound noun in different ways.
More activities
1
Ask students to scan the text and fi nd the word
should
.
Elicit that
should you wish
means ‘if you (should) wish’.
Point out that sentences with inversion, like this, can be
considered more formal than those that begin with
if
.
The next sentence could also have begun with
should
–
Should you still have any concerns
… .
Inversion is
also used in conditional sentences with
were
and
had
,
e.g.
Were you to need the loan facility, you would have
to return the form by June 30th. Had I needed the loan
facility, I would have returned the form by June 30th
.
2
Ask students to fi nd two examples of hyphens in the letter
–
4-weekly
(used twice),
co-operation
. Elicit or explain that
the fi rst one has been used because the writer is talking
about ‘4 weekly’ ‘payments’ – not ‘4’ ‘weekly payments’
or ‘weekly pay cycle’, i.e. the hyphen is between the two
linked words. The second one has been used because
coop
has two vowel sounds, not one – although some
people would not include a hyphen in this word. (A
hyphen can also be used in
coordinate
.)
3
Elicit or explain that hyphens can also be used to join
words when talking about ages and periods of time. For
example:
My cousin is ten years old – I’ve got a ten-year-
old cousin, I’m going on holiday for three weeks – I’m
going on a three-week holiday
.
Remind students to use
the singular form of
year
,
week,
etc. in such hyphenated
expressions.
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