Exercise 9. Complete the formal letter with the phrases in the box

could you let me know I look forward to I will be making it would be possible we can calculate we will be able to we will be staying we would also grateful we would like to ask you could email me

Dear Mr Harris,

Further to our conversation, I am writing to confirm that __ at your hotel for a total of four nights, arriving on 22^nd April and leaving on 26^th April.

Some friends of ours have told us about the luxury room available in the hotel and __about the price of this room. __ if you could tell us about the sports facilities the hotel has, and if __ use the swimming pool.

On the telephone you mentioned that __ to hire a car directly from the hotel. Do you think __ the details of this service, so that __ how many days we would like to reserve the car for?

__ a bank transfer tomorrow to cover the amount of the deposit. Please __ when you receive the transfer, and send me a receipt?

__hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Edwards

Exercise 10. Listen to the news[5]. Mark t rue (T), false (F) sentences.

1. Reading or writing text messages while you are … is dangerous.

a) walking

c) reading

d) speaking

c) writing

2. Researchers found that there are more … to texting pedestrians than there are to texting motorists.

a) injuries per kilometer

b) injuries per meter

c) injuries per an hour

d) injuries per a day

3. A University professor said walking is ….

a) a complex action

b) a complex thing

d) a complex driving

c) a complex texting

4. The professor said over... people visited his hospital last year because they were injured while texting.

a) 8,000

b) 1,000

c) 1,500

d) 6,000