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Lesson 281

3) The post office box When you have a post-office box, the postman will no longer bring letters, but you will go to the post office yourself and receive your letters and parcels from the box. The box is locked, and you have the key, so the letters are pretty safe. One day, a head of school wrote to the post office and applied for a box for his school. He soon got an answer saying, "We'll give you a PO Box in a month." Three months later, the headmaster wrote to the post-office again, "Why don’t we have a PO box yet?" That was the reply from the post office: "Dear Sir, we set up a post office box for you two months ago and wrote to you announcing it. Here is the key to your box, you will find our letter to you in it."

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The postman takes your letters and Christmas cards from the post office to your house. Christmas card = postcard parcel = package I can read a postcard at once. I first must open a letter and then I can read it. A thief can’t steal my letters and parcels when they are in a box at the post office. = PO Box / post office box = In a post office box my letters are safe. A letter begins with: Dear Sir! / Dear Mary Sir = Mr The head of school / schoolmaster tells the teachers and pupils what to do. At the post office I apply for a post office box. I ask you for help at the post office to get a post office box. A post office sets up a post office box. A man builds a house. I organize a party. The club holds a meeting.

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2) In the same office Mr Miller and Mr Smith worked in the same office. One day, Mr Miller told Mr Smith that he would organize a party at his home the following Wednesday evening and asked whether Mr Smith and his wife wanted to come too. Mr Smith thanked him for the invitation, saying that they would probably be free, but that he wanted to call his wife first, to be sure his wife did not want to go anywhere that night. Mr Smith went to the other room to telephone. When he came back, he looked very surprised and Mr Miller asked what was going on and whether he had talked to his wife. Mr Smith gave a negative answer and said, "She was not there, my little son was on the phone, and I said to him, "Is your mother there, David?" And he replied, "No, she is not in the house." "Where is she?" I asked. "She's out of the house somewhere." "What is she doing?" "She's looking for me."

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organize a party hold a meeting the following day = the next day invitation = invite probably = nearly sure The monkey has broken out of the cage. Now he is free. anywhere = any + where anyone = any + one anybody = any + body anything = any + thing somewhere = some + where somebody = some + body someone = some + one something = some + thing

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1) A few days before Christmas It was a few days before Christmas, and when the office closed at half past six, most of the young men and women stayed and had a party. They ate and drank, danced, laughed and sang songs, and nobody wanted to go home. But John had a wife at home, and lived quite far from the city. Every few minutes he looked at the clock, and finally, when it was already very late, he wanted to leave. "John," his co-workers shouted. "You don’t want to leave, do you? Why don’t you stay and enjoy the party?" "I don’t want to go," said John. "I'm just going down to the train station to miss the last train home. I'll be back in a few minutes."

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party = feast These penguins dance on ice. co-worker = colleague Do you like fish? – Yes, I do. / No, I don’t. You like fish, don’t you? – Yes, of course. You don’t like fish, do you? – Yes, of course. You are English, aren’t you? – Yes, of course. You aren’t English, are you? – Yes, of course. He isn’t English, is he? – Yes, of course. He is English, isn’t he? – Yes, of course. He will come, won’t he? – Yes, of course. He won’t come, will he? – Yes, of course. You can swim, can’t you? – Yes, of course. You can’t swim, can you? – Yes, of course. He has bought a car, hasn’t he? – Yes, of course. He hasn’t bought the car, has he? – Yes, of course. They have bought a car, haven’t they? – Yes, of course. They haven’t bought the car, have they? – Yes, of course. The airplane comes to the airport. The train comes to the train station. The train comes. = arrive / arrival The train goes. = depart / departure I arrived at the train station at twelve o’clock, but my train had departed. = I missed the train.

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Lesson 276: party = feast, These penguins dance on ice. co-worker = colleague, don’t you? , do you? , does he? , doesn’t he? , aren’t you? , are you? , is he? , isn’t he? , won’t he? , will he? , can’t you? , can you? , hasn’t he? , has he? , haven’t they? , have they? airplane, airport, train, train station, arrive / arrival, depart / departure, I missed the train.

Lesson 277: A few days before Christmas / text 1

Lesson 278: organize a party, hold a meeting, the following day = the next day, invitation = invite, probably = nearly sure, free, anywhere = any + where, anyone = any + one, anybody = any + body, anything = any + thing, somewhere = some + where, somebody = some + body, someone = some + one, something = some + thing

Lesson 279: In the same office / text 2

Lesson 280: postman, Christmas card = postcard, parcel = package, letter, PO Box / post office box, safe, Dear Sir! / Dear Mary, Sir = Mr, head of a school / schoolmaster, apply for, ask for, sets up

Lesson 281: The post office box / text 3

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3) Mrs Miller’s telephone number The phone number of Mrs Miller was three-four-six-three, and the number of the cinema in her city three-four-six-four, so people often made a mistake and called her instead of the cinema. One evening, the telephone rang again and Mrs Miller answered the phone. A tired man's voice asked, "When do you start your last movie?" "I'm sorry," said Mrs Miller, "but you dialled the wrong number, this is not the cinema." "Oh, it started twenty minutes ago," said the man. "That's too bad. Thank you! Goodbye." Mrs Miller was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said: "The man's wife wanted to go to the movies, but he felt tired, so he called the cinema. His wife could hear him, but could not hear you. Tonight they will stay at home, and the man is happy!"

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