1. Read this part of a letter written by a student magazine editor. For each gap, choose the correct answer: a, b, or c.

It should be interesting 1_________ other students to read your opinions. 2_________ we need to do now is to find out everybody else’s opinions. So let’s start by encouraging more people to write letters, 3_________ their point of view. We’ll keep printing opinions as long 4_________ you keep sending them to us. We’re also 5_________ to arrange a kind of vote about it. This will mean that the school authorities are fully informed of the situation.



1 a) with; b) in; c) for.
2 a) what; b) how; c) which.
3 a) giving; b) having; c) placing.
4 a) so; b) by; c) as.
5 a) running; b) going; c) making.

2. Read the instructions and the student’s letter in task 3. Do you agree with their ideas? Why? / Why not?

3. You are the editor of a student magazine. Read the letter below, which you have received and are going to publish in the magazine.

Dear University News,

I want to complain about the health and out university. There are several problems. Firstly, the lunch break we get at the university is too short. You cannot eat a proper meal in in 15 minutes – especially if you first have a queue for your food in the canteen! We learn that a healthy diet is important, but how can we eat healthily if there’s never time for it?

Secondly, we don’t get enough time for exercise and sport, and this isn’t good for us, either. The after-university sports clubs at our university have closed down because of lack of money. Finally, I think our P.E. lessons should allow more time for games and sports, and less time for boring exercises! We would all be more interested in getting fitter.
Maybe it’s time to change, and the university should take some action.
Yours faithfully,
Rita Klein

You decide that you will publish your letter o response to this letter next to it in the magazine. Include the following:

thanks for the letter;
comments on the points made in the letter;
suggestions about what should be done;
encouragement to other students to write letters.
Write 200–250 words.