11) Не забудь послати телеграму. 12) Цей конверт дуже гарний.

Lesson 24

34. Do exercise 31b in 45 seconds.

35. Read your translation (exercise 33).

36. Read and translate the text.

AT THE POST-OFFICE

For a registered letter, an air-mail letter or an ordinary letter to another country you must stick more stamps on the envelope. So you must go to the post-office. There you can send a telegram or a parcel¹ and buy stamps.

The post-office clerk weighs² the letter or parcel, or counts the number of words in the telegram and tells you how much you must pay.

When the letter arrives at its destination³ another postman delivers it to the addressee: he drops it into the mail-box. A telegraph boy delivers⁴ telegrams to our house.

37. Read the dialogues and act them.

— Can I send a parcel from here?

— No, sir. You can do it over there.

— Thank you.

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— Can I send a parcel from here?

— Yes, sir.

— And how to wrap [racp] it?

— We can do it for you, sir. You have to tell us the address.

— Thanks.

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— What's the charge for an air-mail letter?

— It will cost 2 pence.

— Thanks.