英语应用文写作notesandbills.pptVIP

Notes and Bills a) Notes Left b) Request for Leave c) I.O.U / Due Bill; A note Its contents The main purpose of a note;Example 1;Example 1;Try to write notes according to the following situation 1) You are going to work and leave the key to the back door on the desk by the window. Instruct your family members where they can find it.; Sept. 18 Key to back door on desk by window Tom;You are developing a rat problem in the house. You have bought some rat poison, and you want to leave a note for your parents before going on a trip. In the note you tell them the rat poison is on the top shelf above the washing machine, and the directions are on the container ; ;you ask them to put the poison out tonight and make sure the poison is put at a place children can not reach because your sister Sue’s child will be coming tomorrow.;Key ;Translation ;Entrusting Somebody to Do Something ;Translation ;Asking to Return the Videotapes ;;Notes should be important- looking. use of simple understandable language plain, familiar, homespun words avoid bookish, artificial and stilted language ;2) ellipsis a) brief omit the superfluous words simplify the expressions ;For example: There are two things which are necessary here. → Revised: Two things are necessary here.; b) It is not always necessary to use complete sentences. Some determiners (e.g. a, the , some) and some of the verbs (e.g. is, are) can be left out. For example: (I’m) leaving Guangzhou immediately. (I’ll be) back (on) Friday.;3) The usual rhetorical conventions associated with formal letters can be absent in notes. The following should be included: date addressee’s name addresser’s names ;1) Make the following sentences as direct and concise as possible without losing the original meaning: ① I think the time has come for us to be leaving. ② At the point in time he was out of work.;③ Although he had always considered his sister to be of