Exercises

Exercise №1
Read the following request for comprehensive insurance and choose the best words from the options in brackets.

Humboldt Exporters ltd
15 February 20—
International Insurance plc
153 Western Road
Brighton Sussex
BN1 4EX
Dear Sir
We are a ___ (grand, large, wide) export company ___ (who, which, what) ships consignments ___ (in, to, towards) Europe and North America. We ___ (want, would like, request) to know if you can ___ ‘’’’9suggest, supply, present) us with a quotation for a comprehensive policy, ___ (assuring, protecting, covering) our warehouse at Dock Road, Southampton.
We would like policy to ___ (consist, contain, include) fire, flood, theft, burglary, and the usual contingencies affecting this ___ (form, kind, variety) of enterprise. At any one time, there may be about £800,000 in stock on the ___ (premises, grounds, floors).
If you can give us a ___ (competing, competition, competitive) quote, we will ___ (think, image, consider) taking out further policies with you.
We look forward to hearing from you ___ (soon, presently, immediately).
Yours faithfully
Peter Hind
Company Secretary

Exercise №2
There are no capital, punctuation, or paragraphs in this letter requesting open cover. Write out the letter correctly. Divide the body of the letter into four paragraphs.

UK Brunel House
engineering PLC Brunel Street
Liverpool L2 2ER
1 may 20—
sugden & able
Insurance brokers
63 grover street
Manchester m5 61d
dear sir madam
we are a large engineering company exporting machine parts worldwide and
have a contract to supply a middle eastern customer for the next two years as
the parts we will be supplying are similar in nature and are going to the same
destination over this period we would prefer to insure them under an open
cover policy would you be willing to provide open cover for £500.000 against
all risks for this period I look forward to hearing from you
yours faithfully
jack turner
shipping manager