Lesson 03
Dear Natsu,
Thank you for your third message. My comments and corrections follow.
Sincerely,
Prof. Sue Garreis
Dear Professor Garreis,
Thank you for your reply and corrections of my English.
I will answer your questions and reply.
>Cookies are delicious, too.
>What is your favorite kind of cookie to bake?
ΛI like baking chocolate cookies!
Sweet desserts make us happy.
>Even in May it was very hot.
>I like cool places. Mountains are my favorite.
>What is your favorite place to vacation?
ΛI like cool places, too, because I like winter better than summer.
My favorite place to vacation is the shopping mall.
The air of mountains is clear.
What do you do at the mountains?
>We bought postcards as souvenirs.
ΛWhat kind of postcards do you buy?
>That means we looked in the stores at the clothes, purses, hats and shoes,
>but we didn't actually buy anything.
ΛOh, really? But I like window shopping, too.
>There were some very pretty clothes in the stores.
>There was some very pretty jewelry in the stores, too.
ΛOh, how wonderful! I like pretty clothes.
For example, I like skirts trimmed with lace.
Thank you for reading my email.
Ifm waiting for your reply.
Sincerely yours,
Natsu
<Home work>
1. I usually write my messages on Sunday evening in Arnold MD.
When I am finished, it is early Monday afternoon in Chiba.
When do you first check for my reply to your message? Tell me the day of the week and what time of day you check.
ΛI usually do first check at 9:00 on Monday night.
Thank you.
2. Visit America's largest telecommunications company, AT&T. Click here for
a recent press release. AT&T designed new cruise ship packages. What are
the packages designed to give cruise ship travelers? (Hint: The answer is
in the first sentence of paragraph three. Do not translate past the bold
phrase gMore Messaging, More Saving.h)
ΛThe new packages are designed to give cruise ship travelers discounted rates on voice, messaging and data use while at sea.
Correct.
3. Visit a large public university on the east coast, the University of
Maryland, and see the Department of Accounting and Information Assurance.
4. Use any search engine to search the Net for "balance sheet." Tell me how
many "hits" you have, i.e., how many documents have that phrase in it? Tell
me what search engine you used. For example, I used Google to find "balance
sheet." There were about 75,000,000 (seventy-five million) hits. Using
Bing, there were 46,000,000 (forty-six million) hits.
ΛI used Yahoo! to find "balance sheet." There were about 97,300,000
(ninety seven and thirty thousands) hits.
97,300,000 is ninety-seven million three hundred thousand.
5. How easy was this lesson for you?
ΛThe accounting was: Very hard