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Part 1
Contents
1 A news report. 2 A feature article. 3 Part of a news bulletin. 4 A broadcast talk. 5 Extracts from a football commentary. 6 Part of a lecture. 7 Part of a sermon. 8 Part of a political speech. 9 Part of a travelogue. 10 An extract from a book on literary style.
Part 2
1 An exchange of letters.
Part 3
1 About a football commentary. 2 About a washing-machine. 3 About a lecture. 4 About the directions for filling in a tax-return. 5 About a sermon, 6 About an advertisement, 7 About a letter of application, 8 A letter about a lease, 9 An exchange of letters about a travelogue. 10 A letter about a broadcast talk.
2 A telephone conversation. 3 A letter of application. 4 A company chairman's report. 5 Part of report. a stock-market
6 Extracts from two operating manuals. 7 Examples of advertisements from television and the press. 8 Part of the directions filling in a tax-return. 9 Part of a lease. for
10 An extract from a chemistry text-book.
Acknowledgements
During the writing of this course I have been extremely fortunate in being able to consult the files of the survey of English Usage at University College London. Without constant recourse to such a varied collection of specimens of actual English usage, I should have found it far more difficult to compose convincing examples suitable for use in a course such as this. Moreover,