Basic Needs

['let4]
-s[-z]
Everyday Expressions
n.
Will you mail this letter for me?
n. (pl.)
Lion was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs.
n.
The teacher taught the students letters of the alphabet.
n.
Please fill in the form in capital letter.

letter box / mail box

letterhead
letter-bomb

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- an airmail letter
--- a business letter
--- a registered letter
--- letter of credit
--- red-letter day
--- to answer a letter
--- to mail letters/ deliver letters
--- to the letter

Communicating Clearly

 Street Talks
I enclosed some photographs in my letter.
I didnt know whether to send the letter airmail or not.
We should keep to the letter of our contract.

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

I sent her letters, not everyday, but almost.

Dear dad, this is my last letter from Paris.

Jenny: Forrest! How you doin? Come in, come in.

Forrest: I got your letter.
Jenny: Oh! I wondered about that.
Proverbs
Morals are the core of culture: letters without virtue are like pearls in
a dunghill.

Quotations
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist. Miss Bingley, in Pride and
Prejudice, ch. 10 (1813).

After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. Past Tense: Diaries, vol. 2
(1988), entry for 7 June 1953. Cocteau was writing of Kafkas journal, which he had
"Read and re-read.