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TO A FRIEND ABOUT THE BAD EFFECTS OF SMOKING

123 ABC Road

Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear ‘X’

I have not heard from you for a long time. You did not even reply to my last letter. I am quite at a
loss to account for your silence. However, I cannot stop writing to you. This time I consider it
imperative on my part to write to you something about your habit of smoking cigarettes. This
letter is founded on advice to be followed by you for your own sake.

Yesterday ‘Z’ told me of your recently developed habit of smoking cigarettes. I was shocked and
immediately made up my mind to write to you about this destructive habit. Now, my dear friend,
pay heed to the bad effects of smoking cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes is nothing but inhaling
deadly poison. One single puff of a cigarette contains thousands of particles of many harmful
substances like nicotine, arsenic, carbon monoxide and tobacco tar. These substances are fatal
enough to disturb many internal functions of the body and cause serious diseases like cancer,
heart attack and chronic bronchitis. Thus it rears the death inside a living man. It is to be
remembered that both active and passive smokers experience the same fatality of cigarette
smoking.

Smoking cigarettes is also a threat to one’s pocket. Being an expensive habit, it eats into one’s
pocket. If one estimates one’s monthly expenditure on this habit, one will come to know about
it. Moreover, cigarette smoking is a first steppingstone on the path to drug addiction.

Now you must realise that cigarette smoking is not only extremely dangerous but also highly
expensive. It can do no good but harm to your health and pocket. Hence, I expect you to stop
smoking cigarettes at once.

Let me end the letter here. Write to me to say how you are. I will be pleased if you write to me
now and then. Convey my compliments to your parents. Wish you the best of luck.

Your affectionate friend

‘Y’
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123 ABC Road 456 CBA Road
Dhaka – 4567 Chittagong - 7654

TO A FRIEND INVITING HIM TO JOIN YOU IN A PICNIC

123 ABC Road

Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear ‘X’

I have not heard from you for a long time. You did not even reply to my last letter. I am quite at a
loss to account for your silence. However, I have learnt from ‘Z’ that you are now at your uncle’s

Residence: 70/2/2/A Kadamtala (1st Floor), Bashabo, Dhaka – 1214, Phone: 720-5417, Mobile: 01914-838222
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residence in Dhaka. I am pleased to invite you to join us in a picnic. We are arranging the picnic
for Friday the 15th. We have provisionally selected Sonargaon as the place for the picnic. If you
have any better suggestion, you can put it forward without the slightest hesitation.

According to our present programme, we will all assemble at the house of ‘Z’ by 6.30 in the
morning and then leave by a minibus. We will have breakfast on the way and lunch on the spot.
There will also be an arrangement for refreshment before starting our return journey in the
evening. Our programme also includes a visit to the museum situated at Sonargaon.

I have persuaded nearly all our friends to come, and you are probably the last one (but not the
least!) whom I am inviting. So please make up your mind quickly. I can assure you that the day
will be full of fun and merriment – a day which we will remember for many years to come. Please
drop a line in reply and I hope it is in positive. Needless to say that without you it will be a very
drab affair for us.

More when we meet.

Your affectionate friend

‘Y’
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123 ABC Road 456 CBA Road
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TO A FRIEND THANKING HIM FOR SENDING YOU A NICE BIRTHDAY PRESENT

123 ABC Road

Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear ‘X’

On Sunday morning I received a parcel with a short note from you. In your short note, you
regretted your inability to come to my birthday party for your engagement in some important
family affair. But you did not forget to send me your best wishes and a nice birthday gift. I
expected your presence in the birthday party but it was not to be. I had to remain pleased with
your wishes in black and white and the gift. I was quite lost without you on my birthday.
Needless to say that it was a very drab affair for me without you.

However, I should not forget to thank you for your wishes and the lovely gift. It was extremely
thoughtful of you to have presented me with a wristwatch on my birthday. In fact, I had been
thinking of buying a new wristwatch since losing my old one. Now, of course, there is no need of
it. The wristwatch bears testimony to your sense of choice. I think none can compete with you in
making the right choice of anything for me. Whoever sees the wristwatch cannot avert his or her
eyes from it. So, I thank you once again for the lovely present. Please do drop in one of these
days and spend some time with me.

Residence: 70/2/2/A Kadamtala (1st Floor), Bashabo, Dhaka – 1214, Phone: 720-5417, Mobile: 01914-838222
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Let me end the letter here. Write to me to say how you are. I will be pleased if you write to me
now and then. Convey my compliments to your parents. Wish you the best of luck.

Your affectionate friend

‘Y’
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123 ABC Road 456 CBA Road
Dhaka – 4567 Chittagong - 7654

TO A FRIEND CONDOLING WITH HIM ON HIS MOTHER’S (FATHER’S) DEATH

123 ABC Road

Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear ‘X’

I was deeply grieved to learn that your mother (father) had died. I knew that she (he) had been
in indifferent health for the last few months, but I never thought she (he) would leave us so
soon.

Words of consolation are inadequate; time alone can heal such deep wounds. But for the sake of
your father (mother) and your younger brother and sister you must not allow yourself to be
overwhelmed. A grave responsibility has now fallen on you. You must steel yourself to bear it.

Your father (mother) must be suffering great sorrow. It is for you to help him (her) to recover
from the blow. Your younger brother and sister are still too young to realise the weight of the
calamity. Do not let the gloom of the tragedy darken their bright young lives.

I know that most of this will sound unrealistic to you today. But you must bear up. However you
may feel in your heart, you must not let your face show it. You have to console your family and
finish the task left unaccomplished by your mother (father).

I am coming to see you early next week. Till then,

Yours in sorrow

‘Y’
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123 ABC Road 456 CBA Road
Dhaka – 4567 Chittagong - 7654

Residence: 70/2/2/A Kadamtala (1st Floor), Bashabo, Dhaka – 1214, Phone: 720-5417, Mobile: 01914-838222
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TO YOUR MOTHER TELLING HER ABOUT YOUR HOSTEL LIFE

School Hostel
Room No 302
Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear Mother
Your letter in the morning filled me with joy. I could nor start my day on a better note. However, you
seem to be worrying about me. It is because this is the first time I have been living in a hostel. No
doubt, I miss a little of the sweetness of home life, but there is no want of sincere friendship here in
the hostel. We are all thirty boarders making up a family of our own with the superintendent as the
head.
I have a good room here in the hostel and my partner is also a very nice boy. We have already
become good friends. There are a few boys in the hostel who troubled me initially in the name of
5ragging. But, now they have become friends. My seniors here are very helpful and I have got a lot
of books and notes from them.
We have a large playground just opposite the hostel and we play football every evening. Sometimes I
do feel lonely, but gradually I am getting used to the hostel life. So there is no need to worry. There
are few good singers in the hostel. We often have musical sessions in our free time.
The hostel food is quite good, so please do not worry about it. In addition to two principal meals, we
have good tiffin both in the morning and in the evening. The items vary from day to day, but nothing
injurious to health is allowed to enter the kitchen. If anyone falls ill, the hostel doctor comes in and
the fellow-boarders give him all the care and attendance he may require.
Living in the hostel life has other advantages too. It gives us a habit of self-help. We have to take
care of our personal belongings ourselves, make up our own beds, and live under strict discipline
from morning till night. The only drawback I find in the hostel is that it is about two kilometres away
from the school, so I think I will have to buy a bicycle.
Let me end the letter here. Write to me to say how you are. I will be pleased if you write to me now
and then. With respects to you and father, and love for Z,
I am
Your affectionate son
‘Y’
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Residence: 70/2/2/A Kadamtala (1st Floor), Bashabo, Dhaka – 1214, Phone: 720-5417, Mobile: 01914-838222
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School Hostel Shanti Neer
Room no 302 456 CBA Road
Dhaka - 4567 Chittagong - 7654

TO A FRIEND ABOUT YOUR PREPARATION FOR THE COMING EXAMINATION

123 ABC Road

Dhaka – 4567
03 June 2007
My dear ‘X’

I was deeply grieved to learn that your mother (father) had died. I knew that she (he) had been
in indifferent health for the last few months, but I never thought she (he) would leave us so
soon.

Words of consolation are inadequate; time alone can heal such deep wounds. But for the sake of
your father (mother) and your younger brother and sister you must not allow yourself to be
overwhelmed. A grave responsibility has now fallen on you. You must steel yourself to bear it.

Your father (mother) must be suffering great sorrow. It is for you to help him (her) to recover
from the blow. Your younger brother and sister are still too young to realise the weight of the
calamity. Do not let the gloom of the tragedy darken their bright young lives.

I know that most of this will sound unrealistic to you today. But you must bear up. However you
may feel in your heart, you must not let your face show it. You have to console your family and
finish the task left unaccomplished by your mother (father).

I am coming to see you early next week. Till then,

Yours in sorrow

‘Y’
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‘Y’ ‘X’
123 ABC Road 456 CBA Road
Dhaka – 4567 Chittagong - 7654

Residence: 70/2/2/A Kadamtala (1st Floor), Bashabo, Dhaka – 1214, Phone: 720-5417, Mobile: 01914-838222