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Model Answers:Task One:

Task Two:

The Golden Eagle pub on the Meckham Road has finally closed its doors to business after more than eighty years.

The last night, Saturday, saw a full house. Over two hundred people turned up for a last drink with the party mood spilling out onto the pavement.

The closure was confirmed by the licensing committee of Grenberg City Council last month even though a thousand-strong petition against closure had been handed in by local residents. The committee sought the closure after repeated warnings about noise had gone unheeded.

Reactions in the neighbourhood were understandably mixed. Long term local resident, eighty-year-old Jack Hemmingway said, “A very sad day indeed, I had my first drink in there when I was fourteen in 1946.”

But others welcomed the closure. Rebecca Gold, an office manager, said, “I sometimes could not get to sleep till after midnight because of the noise. I was falling asleep at work.”

Planning permission has been given to turn the building into three residential flats.

Review (161 words)

Dear Sir / Madam,

I have your advertisement for three flats in the Grenberg area.

My client, Jana Wolski, is interested in renting the 100 square metre attic in the centre of the town to accommodate both herself and her university sculpture work.

I can see the rent is EUR 950 per month, but I would also like to know if a deposit is payable and if so how much. I assume the flat is currently vacant and that the tenant can move in immediately.

Jana would also like to inspect the flat. I wonder if that could be arranged for next Thursday at 10.30. I would be grateful if you could send me the exact address.

Jill PipesAccommodation OfficeGrenberg University

122 words

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Beyond the Graves by Rudolph Duvall was the first adult play which I saw at the age of twelve. It is also one of the best plays ever written, so I was eager to see Brian Smith’s rendition which had its first performance in the Grenberg State Theatre last Friday.

The play features a nineteenth century family torn apart by the competing claims of modernity and tradition. Gertrude, the only daughter of the rich farming family, wants not to marry, to live in the town and to study art. The relations between Gertrude, her parents, brothers and friends are intricate and delicate.

I was horrified, therefore, to see Smith portray these touching and difficult matters in the form of a comedy. Even in its own terms the comedy failed as Sarah Jenner, Playing Gertrude, is no comedy actress. In the end the play fell flat; and one could feel the wave of confusion and disappointment in the auditorium.

A disappointment indeed!

A review (161 words)

“People in all countries are fundamentally the same.”

The core physiological and mental make up of all human beings are the same, but the values and behaviour of people are moulded by different cultural histories.

Many of the structures that determine human life and behaviour are not within the power of human beings to change. Our physical capacities (e.g. we can walk but not fly), our need to live in communities, and our capacity for language are fixed. Even areas like differences between men and women and the themes in literature have a fixed pattern across societies over time.

Yet, society and technology do mould people. The way people live and think today in the twenty-first century is different from that of the nineteenth. The role and relationship between men and women have changed, the structure of families has changed.

In conclusion, similarities there are, but also differences between countries, within countries and over time.

An essay (147 words)