Answer the following questions. 1. What are the functions of the post-office?

1. What are the functions of the post-office?

2. What are the ways of transporting mail?

3. What are the post-office counters?

4. Why is it advisable to have a parcel insured if it contains something valuable?

5. What happens to a letter marked “Poste Restante”?

6. Where do you go to send printed matter?

7. When is it preferable to send your letter registered?

8. In what case do you mark your letter “Special Delivery”?

9. Where can you send money orders?

10. What service is used when you are not sure that the person still resides at the particular address?

11. What types of telegrams do you know?

12. What is the operation of telephoning?

13. The telephone etiquette is very much the same in all countries, isn’t it?

14. What are the main good telephone manners?

 

Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1. The post-offices deliver food.

2. Bicycle is a widely used transport for carrying mail.

3. There no post-offices in Ukraine.

4. Post-offices are not open at all hours of the day.

5. The post-office has many duties.

6. The window marked “Parcel Post” handles letters only.

7. We send money orders at the “Money Gifts” window.

8. There are 10 types of telegram service in our country.

9. Only a few people in Ukraine have telephones at home.

10 When you want to make a call take up the receiver and wait for a signal.

11. A frequent high tone buzzing means that the line is engaged.

12. when talking on the phone you must shout loudly and take the cigarette in your mouth.

13. Your conversation with a busy person must be as long as possible.

14 When you get a wrong number don’t apologize.

15. Always identify yourself when making a call.

16. It’s very polite to call your friends at midnight.

17. If you make the call, you should terminate it yourself.

 

Translate the following words and word-combinations into Ukraine.

to deliver letters, widely used, daily, parcel binding, trifle, valuable, to handle, to keep mail, a registered letter, address, the sender, to trace the letter, a special charge, urgent telegram, to write legibly, delays, to require, pre-paid, to send, communications system, telephone directory, receiver, line is engaged, frequent, busy person, conversation, wrong number, to announce yourself, to call on business, to terminate the call

 

Translate the following words and word-combinations into English.

грошовий переказ, кожного тижня (року), у визначений час, обов’язки, марки, години доставки, страхувати, перевага, поштова скриня, адресат, нерозбірливий почерк, конверт, звичайна телеграма, повідомлення, телефонна книга, набирати номер, телефонний етикет, вибачатися, назвати себе, бути зайнятим, передзвонювати

Match the words and phrases on list A. with their synonyms on list B.

A. 1. parcel, 2. post, 3. valuable, 4. to prefer, 5. telephone directory, 6. large, 7. letter-box, 8. delivery, 9. to wrap, 10. to ring up again, 11. costs, 12. money orders, 13. to hang up, 14. mailman, 15. to be engaged, 16. incorrect, 17. express delivery, 18. an official, 19. telephone booth, 20. operator, 21. telegram

B. 1.conveyance, 2. to like better, 3. package, 4. costly, 5. to ring up, 6. pillar-box, 7. phone-book, 8. mail, 9. huge, 10. to pack, 11. telephonist, 12. a clerk, 13. postal orders, 14. special delivery, 15. wire, 16. wrong, 17. postman, 18. call box, 19. to be busy, 20. expenses, 21. to call back

 

Explain in English the meaning of the following words and word-combinations.

post-office, telephone device, money order, stamped envelope, parcel, post-card, registered letter, periodicals, to insure a parcel, to send a letter, a phone-book, buzzing sound, a wrong number, to call back, address