Exercises

1. Answer the following questions:

1. How does an employer get the first impression of a prospective

employee?

Answer：is in writing, in the form of a cover letter or letter of application and resume.

2. Why are the appearance and content of any business correspondence so

important?

Answer：It is important to make the best possible impression so that an interview will

follow

3. What information should a resume include?

Answer：This is so that a few facts about

you are easily obtained (i.e. name, objective, education, extend of experience and

skills).

4. What can help the reader to assess the sender’s writing and

communication style?

Answer：Send resume

5. What is the aim of any covering letter?

Answer：Get a job offer

6. What should candidates do in order to be selected by employers?

Answer：The intent of the cover letter is to introduce yourself to the potential

employer, highlight the information given on the resume and convince the reader

to grant you an interview.

7. What is the myth about business correspondence?

Answer：Business Correspondence – The Myth

The myth about business correspondence is that it must be formal,

standardised and often terse.

8. What size should any covering letter be?

Answer：limit your letter to one page, usually three or four paragraphs;

9. Should a resume and a covering letter be similar?

Answer：It's different

10. What way of sending business correspondence is preferable? (letter,

fax, e-mail)

Answer：do not e-mail or fax any business correspondence (resumes, applications,

2. Match each word or collocation in the left-hand column with its

meaning in the right-hand column.

1=d，2=e，3=a，4=c，5=b，6=f，7=i，8=g，9=j，10=k，11=h

3. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an

appropriate form to fill each gap.

1. Send your CV and layout to the address below.

2. He simply concise the same story.

3. There is so much stationery in this shop. You can buy everything you

need for school.

4. We use the same technique in the revise of this business letter.

5. He is charged with possession of a gun with. Rehash to commit a

robbery.

6. Please intent on this question, we need to know more.

7. We have letter of application our estimates of population growth.

8. Your summary should be as clear and Elaborate as possible.

4. Phrasal verbs.

Fill in the correct preposition:

1. Voters took take off the relationship between the government and the

unions in the 1970s.

2. His only reason for investing in the company was to take it take to.

3. We are taking my folks take out for a meal next week.

4. Charles was an odd character whom Kelly had never really taken take against.

5. Can I just take some details take down ?

6. Jennie really takes take after her mother.

7. He sat on the bed to take his boots take over .

8. If the shirt does not fit, take it take back

5、Questions:

1. Where is the sender’s address placed?

Answer：in the upper right corner

2. Where is the inside address placed?

Answer：Left down (left below the sender address)

3. What is the subject title of the letter?

Answer：Official letter urging invoices

4. Where is the letterhead “Compuvision Ltd” situated?

Answer：Upper left corner

5. What position does the sender hold within the company?

Answer：Sales Manager