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    A Ccom M Odation Message: From: To: M R and Mrs Baker Subject: Accommodation S e N T: 16 July 2011

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    Burcu is writing an email to her host family, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, to accept their offer of accommodation. She provides details about her studies, hobbies of reading, basketball and swimming. She asks if there is a sports club near their house with a swimming pool. Burcu mentions her English course starts on July 24th but she is arriving two days earlier on July 22nd at 2:25pm and asks for the best way to get from the airport to their house. She looks forward to seeing them in London.

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    Burcu is writing an email to her host family, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, to accept their offer of accommodation. She provides details about her studies, hobbies of reading, basketball and swimming. She asks if there is a sports club near their house with a swimming pool. Burcu mentions her English course starts on July 24th but she is arriving two days earlier on July 22nd at 2:25pm and asks for the best way to get from the airport to their house. She looks forward to seeing them in London.

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    Burcu is writing an email to her host family, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, to accept their offer of accommodation. She provides details about her studies, hobbies of reading, basketball and swimming. She asks if there is a sports club near their house with a swimming pool. Burcu mentions her English course starts on July 24th but she is arriving two days earlier on July 22nd at 2:25pm and asks for the best way to get from the airport to their house. She looks forward to seeing them in London.

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    W R IT IN G A host family

    1 Imagine you are going abroad to do a short course and are going to live with a
    host family. W hat information would you give them and what information
    would you want? Think about:

    dates food personal inform ation transport com puter access hobbies

    2 Burcu Sancak, a Turkish student, is writing to her host family. Read her email.
    Tick (√ ) the items from exercise 1 that she mentions.

    A ccom m odation message


    Fro m : Burcu Sancak [[email protected]] S e n t: 16 July 2011
    To: M r and Mrs Baker
    Su bject: A cco m m o d a tio n

    D e a r M r a n d M r s B a k e r,

    I'm v e r y h a p p y t o a c c e p t y o u r o f f e r o f a c c o m o d a tio n . I’m re a lly e x c ite d a b o u t c o m in g t o L o n d o n


    f o r t h e f ir s t tim e t o d o a n E n g lis h c o u rs e .

    I a m in m y la s t y e a r o f s c h o o l a n d n e x t y e a r I w a n t t o g o t o u n iv e rs ity t o s tu d y e n g lis h L a n g u a g e
    a n d L ite r a tu re . a t t h e m o m e n t i a m p re p a rin g f o r m y fin a l e x a m s, s o I'm w o rk in g v e r y h a rd . W h e n
    I'm n o t s o b isy, I s p e n d a lo t o f t im e re a d in g , b u t I a ls o e n jo y s p o r ts I p la y b a s k e tb a ll f o r m y s c h o o l
    te a m o n c e a w e e k . I a ls o e n jo y s w im in g . Is t h e r e a s p o r ts c lu b w ith a s w im m in g p o o l n e a r y o u r
    h o u se.

    A s I m e n tio n e d in m y la s t e m a il, m y c o u rs e s ta r ts o n 2 4 th Ju ly b u t I’m c o m in g t w o d a y s e a r lie r a n d


    m y p la in a rriv e s a t h e a th r o w o n t h e 2 2 n d a t 14.25 C o u ld y o u t e ll m e t h e b e s t w a y o f g e ttin g fro m
    t h e a ir p o r t t o y o u r h o u s e ?

    I h o p e t o h e re fro m y o u s o o n a n d I’m re a lly lo o k in g fo rw a r d t o s e e in g y o u in L o n d o n .

    B e s t w is h e s ,

    B u rc u S a n c a k

    3 Read STUDY SKILL Read Burcu’s email again. There are 12


    mistakes (capital letters, full stops, question marks, and spelling). STUDY SKILL C h e c k in g y o u r w r itin g
    Find and correct them. Every tim e you w rite , rem em ber to check yo u r w ork for;
    ■ cap ital le tte rs a t th e beginning o f sentences and fo r
    W riting an informal email proper nouns (nam es o f peop le, cities, and cou n tries)

    4 Imagine you are going to stay with a family for a short ■ fu ll stops a t th e end o f sentences

    course. Write them an email. Write about 100 words. ■ q uestion m arks a t th e end o f questions
    ■ spelling m istakes. Use a d ictio n ary o r com puter
    • Say you accep t th e ir o ffe r o f a room ,
    spellchecker to check you r spelling. Keep a record o f
    • Tell them ab o u t yo u r studies and yo u r hobbies.
    any w ords you m isspell. Learn th e co rrect spelling.
    • G ive them inform ation ab o u t you r arrival.
    • Ask fo r inform ation you w ould like.

    Check your work carefully. Give it to another student to check again.

    Unit 1 • International student 7

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