Module paper Assignment 1. Characterize in your own words advantages and disadvantages behind the communicative strategies of each of the letters below in terms of business English correspondence. Arrange your reply as follows:

Letter 1. Advantages: The letter is courteous (the phatic function of the language is put in the foreground).

 Letter 1. Disadvantages: The purpose of the letter (message, bottom line) is masked.

 Letter 2. Advantages: The purpose of the letter (message, bottom line) is easy to arrive at. Letter 2. Disadvantages: The letter is not courteous (does not establish any rapport with the addressee).

Assignment 2. Encircle the right letter: 1c, 2b, 3b, 4c, 5b, 6b, 7c, 8a, 9a, 10a.

Assignment 3. What was meant by Barack Obama when he promised his citizens that there will be "no bail-outs, no hand-outs, no cop-outs"?

He meant: no compromises with the rich.

Translation: «Никаких поблажек, никаких подачек, никаких компромиссов».