Letter practice
You work at Central Business Consultants, 16 Hyde Towers, Hong Kong. The people who rent the office next to you play very loud music all day and every day, even though the contract for the offices says ‘no radios’. It is impossible for you to work. Write a full letter to them, making a strong complaint. Follow this plan:
– say what you are writing about (the noise from their office)
– say exactly what is wrong
– make a point connected with this (the contract)
– demand immediate action
– give them a warning (you will contact the landlord).
4B Activity section: Who’s responsible?
1. Read this newspaper article about an explosion in a clothes factory.
a) Perfecta Ltd’s stock was valued at …
b) What is Perfecta Ltd going to do now?
c) Who is Bauer AG?
d) What has Aqua Warm done?
| 3 January 2010 DAILY NEWS | ||
| Explosion destroys factory | ||
| A huge explosion caused extensive damage last night in the new multi-million dollar factory of Perfecta Ltd, the well known ladies’ fashion designers. There were no injuries. A spokesman for Perfecta said that the central heating system had exploded, blowing a large hole in the roof. “Our complete spring stock has been destroyed. We have lost four hundred thousand pounds worth of clothes”, he said. He claimed that they wrote to the company that installed the heating unit, Bauer AG of Switzerland, on 9th December last year because it was making a strange noise. They received no reply. He said Perfecta would be claiming compensation from Bauer AG. | Meanwhile, Perfecta has been forced to close the factory because it is too cold to work in. This will cost them about £10,000 a day in lost production. Amsterdam: Aqua Warm BV, the manufacturers of the heating unit, said last night that they have been making central heating systems for over 20 years and they had never had a complaint. However, they have asked a surveyor to find the cause of the explosion. |
| Extensive: | a lot of. |
| To claim: | (here) to ask for. |
| Compensation: | money given to make up for the loss of something. |
| To install: | to put in. |
2. Perfecta Ltd now wants to get compensation from Bauer AG and also get the factory working again. You must write the correspondence between the three companies involved.
Учебный элемент 5 (УЭ – 5)
Personal business letters
A Study sectio