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The following two letters are written in two different styles: letter 1 (to a friend) - in an informal style, letter 2 (to insurance company) – in a formal style. Match the italicized colloquial expressions in letter 1 with their literary (including bookish) equivalents given after the letter and fill in the gaps in letter 2 using these equivalents in the appropriate grammatical form.

 

Letter 1

(An extract from letter to a friend)

 

A week ago, I parked my car in the street, which I don’t normally do, instead of in the car park where I work. On that day I wanted to make a quick start to my journey home. At 5 o’clock, when I got to my car, I couldn’t believe itsomeone had smashed into it. Actually, the damage wasn’t too bad – it wasn’t a write-off – and the car would still go. Then I spotted an envelope tucked under the wipers. At first, I thought it would contain the name and address of the driver who had done the damage but I was mistaken. There was a note saying sorry and two tickets for the best seats at that musical that’s been sold out for months. The tickets are like gold dust so I wasn’t complaining! Mary and I went the next night and we had a great time.

When we got back home, we found that burglars had robbed us of thousands of pounds worth of valuables and left a note saying, ‘Hope you enjoyed the show.’ Clearly, they knew we would be out and had made the most of the situation!

 

Equivalent expressions in a formal style: (a) was fairly minor; (b) took advantage of; (c) without delay; (d) apology; (e) usually; (f) my assumption was incorrect; (g) the company car park; (h) returned; (i) to my surprise / disbelief; (j) unobtainable / impossible to obtain; (k) could still be driven; (l) very good / excellent; (m) it had been involved in a collision; (n) my initial assumption was […].

 

 

Letter 2

(An extract from letter to insurance company)

 

On 12 December, contrary to my (0) … usual … practice, which is to park my car in (1) …………………………, I left it in the street next to the car park. On that particular day I wished to commence my homeward journey (2) …………………... At 5 p.m. I left my office and walked to the car. To (3)………………………… it had, while parked, been (4) …………………………… with another vehicle. There was some damage, fairly (5) …………… to the front of the car, but it (6) …………………………………………...

I observed, under the windscreen wipers, a white envelope. My (7) ………………

assumption that it would contain the name and address of the driver who had damaged my car proved to be (8).......................... There was no name and address but there was a note of (9) ……………………. And, as compensation, two (10)…………………………………… to a popular musical – for which tickets are almost (11)…………………………. These tickets seemed a suitable recompense for the damage to the car. The next evening I attended the theatre, accompanied by my wife, and enjoyed the show very much.

You can imagine our horror when, on (12) ……………………. home late at night, we found that our house had been burgled and thousands of pounds’ worth of valuables had been stolen. There was also another note, obviously from the burglars which said, ‘Hope you enjoyed the show.’ Clearly, they had taken (13) ……………………. of the certain knowledge that we would be out of the house in order to perpetrate this crime.

 

 




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