Write an e-mail to Mr Van Hoorn

►Put in the missing words:

1. We received your letter --- the information that Mr Smith is planning to visit Moscow.
2. Would you please fax if the time --- the visit is suitable ---you.
3. --- behalf --- our delegation I’d like to thank you --- your hospitality.
4. I am afraid I will have to postpone my visit --- next month.
5. I regret but it will not be possible --- me to come --- Moscow --- 12 June.
6. Many thanks --- the hospitality extended --- me during my stay.

►Write e-mails:

1. Express delight at the news of a visit of Mr De Niro in Russia, who is planning a short stay in Moscow around May 1 and would like to see you. He is not sure of the date of his visit.
2. Mr. Higgins got this e-mail from Mr Branson in Moscow:

Dear Mr Higgins

I am glad to hear you can attend our conference on the 17^th. Please let me know what time you will be arriving and whether you want someone to meet you at the airport. Can you bring enough copies of your report with you, or will you want us to make the copies here?

I look forward to seeing you.

Yours sincerely,

Richard Branson

The following are the 8 points of Mr Higgins’ answer. Group them together and write an e-mail.

1. getting plane from London on April 17
2. will bring copies of the report
3. arrival in Moscow at 11 a.m.
4. looking forward to meeting Mr Branson again
5. not necessary to meet him at the airport
6. brother lives in Moscow and will collect him
7. will need 15 more copies
8. confirm Mr Branson’s e-mail of March 23

‘PROMOTION’ POINT