Part Two
1. Spot dictation:
1. I was quite surprised to get their letter, actually. ____________ they’ve done nothing but complain about everything. There always seemed to be something wrong. So it’s strange that they ______ ______ so many of ___________. Especially they’re relatively ______. We’ve only ____________________ for a month. They want us to deliver sixty September.
2. Well, ___ wrote to them ________ thanking them for their help over the accounting matter. I’ve just had a ______. __________________ we ____________________ reduce costs, which is ______ to know. But they want us to cut back even more.
______suggested that I ___________________________ to see if they could make more savings. But ___ think ____________________. So ____________________________________. If they’re really insistent, they’ll write again. But I don’t think __________________________________________.
3. I’ve just _________________ about that actually. They ______________ __________________. They _____________________ our decision to expand within Australia, so _____ they ______________________________go into New Zealand as well. I don’t want to give too much away until we know what they are doing. I was going to write and ask for further details of their _________________, __________________. I think it will be better done _____________. So I’d ask my secretary to ___________________ for next week. And hopefully it will be fairly friendly.
4. About two months ago, we ______________________ that they were selling. But they still ________________. Now they’ve written to say ___________________________. They ____________ to deliver them ______________________. That’s lucky, because I ___________________ write to complain about them taking so long. ___________________, but I still do