Jest Your|¥) 0 Reading = PENGUIN ENGLISH GUIDESTo Judith with love and thanks Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world, ISBN 0 582 46905 6 First published 2002 ‘Text copyright © Michae! Dean 2002 Designed and typeset by Pantek Arts Ltd, Maidstone, Kent ‘Test Your format devised by Peter Watcyn-Jones illustrations by Gillan Martin, Vince Silcock, Peter Standley and Sarah Wimperis Printed in Italy by Rotolito Lombarda All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form of by any means, electronic, mechenical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. Acknowledgements. ‘The author would like to thank the editors at Penguin, led by Helen Parker and Jane Durkin, for their skilful, supportive and sensitive editing. Published by Pearson Education Limited in association with Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson ple. For a complete list of the titles available from Penguin English please visit our website at www.penguinenglish.com, or write to your local Pearson Education office or to: Marketing Department, Penguin Longman Publishing, 80 Strand, London WO2R ORL.ao. © «eens Contents To the student v Section 3; Places Section 1: Messages 25° Postcard 46 1 Labels 1 26 Youth hostel and hotel information 48 2 Signs and notices 2 4 27 Directions 50 3 Form 28 liday rach 52 4 Timetable 5 Holiday brochure 6 29° Formal letter 1: 5 Sports results ™ booking a holiday 54 8 Menu ce». © 80 Formalletter 2: 7 Competition . 10 complaint and dispute 56 8 Text messages : 11 81 Official notes 58 9 Notes and memos 13 32 Room 60 10 E-mail: arrangements 15 33 Flat 62 11 Film review 18 34 Novel 3: describing towns 64 Section 2: People 35 Autobiography: 12 Cv 20 describing scenery 66 13° Chat room 22 Section 4: Things 14 Lonely hearts 24 36 Advertisments: for sale 68 15 Job advertisements 26 37 Intemet: 16 Job application 28 buying and hooking 70, 17 Newspaper: horoscope 30 38 Products: mail order 72 18 Missing people 30 33° Clothes: mail order 74 19° Informal letter 1: 40 Offers 6 exchange visit 34 © 41 Informal letter 3: 20° Informal letter 2: describing a computer 78 letter from a friend 36 42. Informal letter 4: 21 Gossip. newspaper and describing clothes 80 Magazine articles 38 43 Informal letter 5: 22 Biography 40 letter of thanks 82 23 24 Novel t; describing cultures 42 Novel 2; describing a way of life 44