O‘zbekiston davlat jahon tillari universiteti

Lesson 22-23
Interpretation of conversations in restaurants, city tours, post-office


Post Office Vocabulary
Letter – a written or printed message to someone often sent by post.
Envelope – the rectangular paper cover in which you send a letter or card to someone by post.
Stamp – a small piece of paper that you buy and then stick to an envelope or package to pay for the cost of postage.
Parcel – a box that is usually given, sent, or delivered to a person.
British people tend to refer to parcels whereas Americans refer to packages.
Scales – a device that is used for weighing people or things.
First-class postage – In the UK, first-class postage is the quicker and more expensive type of postage. In the USA, first-class postage is the type of postage that is used for sending letters and postcards.
In the UK, when buying stamps, you will be asked if you want first class or second class stamps.
Correspondence – the activity of writing letters or emails to someone. Someone’s correspondence can also be the letters or emails that they receive or send.
Express (adjective) – delivered faster than usual for a higher price.
Delivery – the act of bringing something to a person or place. A delivery of something is the goods that are delivered.
Freight – goods that are transported by lorries, trains, ships or aeroplanes. Junk mail – advertisements and other publicity that you receive through the post or by email which you have not asked for and which you do not want.
Mail – the system used for sending letters and packages from one person to another. In the UK, it is more common to say post. You can also refer to letters and parcels which are delivered to you as mail. Mailbox (American English) – a box outside your house where letters are delivered; a dark blue public box in which letters and packages are placed to be collected, sorted and delivered. In the UK people call the rectangular hole in a door or a small box at the entrance to a building into which letters and small parcels are delivered a letterbox and the red metal box in a public place, where you put letters and packets to be collected, sorted and delivered a postbox.
Overseas – in or to a foreign country that is usually across a sea or ocean. Post office – a building where the mail for a local area is sent and received.
Postcard – a card on which a message may be sent by mail without an envelope and that often has a picture on one side. People tend to send postcards to their friends and family when they are on holiday. Postmark – a mark placed over the stamp on a piece of mail that shows when the mail was sent and where it was sent from and that makes it impossible to use the stamp again.