A letter to the course lecturer. You are employed full-time and also doing a part time evening course. You are not able to continue the course. Write a letter to the course lecturer. In the letter: • explain why you cannot continue the course • describe the situation • say what you will be doing. Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. “Dear Mr. Samuel Johnson I am writing you this letter to inform you that I will not be able to attend one of your courses further. My name is Artem R. I have been taking your evening course “Introduction to systems engineering” in the University of Melbourne for the last three months. I enrolled in this course on 22nd July 2016. The main reason I cannot keep taking this course is my work schedule. A month ago I was employed by the consulting company “Kray Twins Co” and, according my work schedule, I end my work every day at 6.00 pm whereas the course begins at 6.20pm and I do not have enough time to commute to the University campus. I would like to enroll to another your course in the same University, which topic is closely related to the topic of the mentioned above course. The name of this course is the “Real application of system engineering in the computer industry.” I would be grateful if you would approve my candidature for the participation in this course. I sincerely thank you for your consideration and look forward for your positive response. Yours Faithfully, Artem R.”

You have been a member of a local club. Now you want to discontinue your membership. Write a letter to the club secretary. In your letter: state what type of membership you have and how you have paid for this. give details of how you have benefited from the club. explain why you want to leave. Write at least 150 words. "Dear Mrs. Jefferson. I am writing you to inform that I am going to stop my membership in the horse riding club "Green Glory". I have been a member of your club for 4 last years. I have a weekend membership card because I am usually very busy during my working week and do not have a chance to train after my work due to my evening educational course which I am taking in the Open University. I have preferred to pay for my membership by means of the Internet payment system PayPal. Your club was always very generous to me and due to my long participation I have been given with following benefits: - free horse riding equipment (i.e. protective helmet, horse riding shoes, whip) - three hours of free training with instructor monthly - discount for two friends I would invite in your club. I regret to inform that due to my relocation in the U.K. I will not be able to attend training sessions in the club anymore. I would be grateful if you recommended me a club in the U.K. near Leeds, Staffordshire which could propose me such excellent service as yours. I look forward for your response. Thank you very much for the perfect service you provided me during four years. Yours sincerely, Artem R."

A letter about problems with the job. You recently took a part-time job working for a local company. After a few weeks you realized there were some problems with the job. Write a letter to the manager of the company. In your letter -- explain why you took the job -- describe the problems that you experienced -- suggest what could be done about them. Write at least 150 words. "Dear Mr. Johns I am writing this letter to inform you about few minor problems I have had since I was hired by your company. I began to work for your company in the beginning of August of 2016. My current position is a part-time industrial safety consultant. I embarked on this position mainly for next several reasons: - flexible schedule of work; -ability to work distantly (one of the biggest part of my work is investigation of safety cases and writing of reports). During my career in the West Consultancy I faced next several problems: Firstly, I noticed that many emails we sent to our clients from our mail server went astray. Secondly, some additional information about safety cases which I investigated was not up-to-date. Thirdly, three times I could not get accurate schedule of our on-line meetings which were provided by means of video conferencing. I would recommend to undertake next corrective measures to improve our current situation with informational support: - It would be better to hire a permanent computer administrator who would be able to maintain our servers on daily basis. - Somebody from our office assistants should keep all information on our web-portal up-to-date. I look forward to your response to my proposal. Sincerely yours, Artem R."

Apology for the noise Your neighbors have recently written to you to complain about the noise from your house flat. Write a letter to your neighbors. In your letter explain the reasons for the noise apologize. Describe what action you will take. 'Dear Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. I am writing you this letter to express my sincere apology for that unacceptable noise our family caused last night. As you know our family have a dog and you could see us walking with it through our local park zone many times. Its name is Jersey and its breed is Scottish collie. This dog is an integral part of our family and it has lived with us for last ten years. My children are very happy to play with it and they spend a lot of time together. My family and our landlord Mr. Samuel Hopes have strong arrangements about possibility to have this dog in our flat and this issue is described in our rental agreement. Unfortunately, last night our dog suffered of unbearable stomachache and it caused that incessant barks and howling. Fortunately, we were managed to call our local veterinarian Mr. Edwards and he gave it all necessary pills which relieved its pain. He explained us that this ache was related to ageing of our dog and prescribed to give it this pills regularly. I hope you could understand and excuse us for such situation. I promise to undertake all possible measures to not bother your family again. Please, accept our apology. Sincerely yours Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.'

Complaint to the manager of a restaurant. You were disappointed with the meal in a restaurant and wish to complain to the manager. Write a letter to the manager of the restaurant. In the letter: » explain why you were at the restaurant » describe the problems » write about the action you want the manager to take 'Dear Sir/Madam I am writing you this letter to express my deepest dissatisfaction with the quality of food in your restaurant. I with my colleagues had an occasion to celebrate 50-years anniversary of my supervisor John Stone. I was in charge to find a suitable place for this event. Looking through advertisement in local media I chose your restaurant as more appropriate. It was advertised that you provide superb menu for your clients and have outstanding service. During this celebration my colleagues noticed that vegetables in served salads were not very fresh and had very suspicious taste. Stakes which were proposed as the main course were rather tough and dry whereas your advertisement declared that 'they are very tender and juicy'. Quality of wine was bellow any standards. It was too sour and had a very pour flavor which proof that it is quite cheap. I look forward for improvement of quality of your meal and insist on financial compensations for all your unacceptable faults with served dishes. I await for your prompt service. Yours sincerely. Artem R.'

Legacy of the British Empire The most influential and significant legacy of the British Empire, I consider, is the worldwide spread of English language. English language is the commonly used language for business communication and science. It is used as the main language for international affairs. The knowing of English is essential for work in international organization like the United Nations, the World Bank etc. As well English is broadly used for daily communication of ordinary people from different countries and cultures. Dominance of English among other languages can be explained by global expansion of the British Empire in 18-19 centuries. Colonization of North America (the United States and Canada), Australia, New Zealand, island countries of the Pacific Ocean region, Africa and Asia built the basement for the contemporary broad using of English language. In some of these countries English is the main language now (the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) whereas in other it is considered as the second official language (India, Philippines etc.). Further development of free trade in its colonies made English the dominant language for business purposes. Although the Britain colonization had its negative consequences as well for the vassal states as for the UK itself, it pioneered the way for nowadays globalization and this process is accompanied with broad using of English language. The second industrial revolution of 18-19 centuries in the UK and great human inventions, which were made during this period of time, turned English language into the main language of science and technology. The most of scientific and technical studies and researches are being published worldwide in this language now. For the most of specialists it is very convenient to use commonly recognized language for professional communication with their colleagues from different parts of the world. In conclusion I want to mention that although there were undertaken many attempts to develop some synthetic language for international communication (like Esperanto etc.), all of them were unsuccessful which can be explained by the fact that the most of these languages did not have any historical roots and people did not have any motivation to use these artificial languages on the daily basis.