Basic Needs

['let4] -s[-z] Everyday Expressions n. Will you mail this letter for me? n. (pl.) Lion was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs. n. The teacher taught the students letters of the alphabet. n. Please fill in the form in capital letter.

letter box / mail box letterhead letter-bomb

Linguistic Skill

Useful Phrases --- an airmail letter --- a business letter --- a registered letter --- letter of credit --- red-letter day --- to answer a letter --- to mail letters/ deliver letters --- to the letter

Communicating Clearly

Street Talks I enclosed some photographs in my letter. I didnt know whether to send the letter airmail or not. We should keep to the letter of our contract.

Cultural Focus

Transcripts

I sent her letters, not everyday, but almost. Dear dad, this is my last letter from Paris.

Jenny: Forrest! How you doin? Come in, come in. Forrest: I got your letter. Jenny: Oh! I wondered about that.

Proverbs Morals are the core of culture: letters without virtue are like pearls in a dunghill.

Quotations A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist. Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 10 (1813). After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. Past Tense: Diaries, vol. 2 (1988), entry for 7 June 1953. Cocteau was writing of Kafkas journal, which he had "Read and re-read.