X. Make all the changes and additions necessary to produce, from the following sets of words and phrases, sentences which together make a complete letter about a disastrous vacation overseas. The first one is done for you (10 marks)
Dear Steve,
0) Well, I wish / I say / have / a nice time
Well, I wish I could say I was having a nice time 1) but, / be honest / 'd love / be back home!
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2) You / not believe / problems / I / have / since / arrive / last Saturday.
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3) swimming pool / still build, / new air-conditioning system / break down / a day / our arrival
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4) and, / make matters / worse, / there be / outbreak of food poisoning / hotel guests
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5) and / not be able / get out / bed / two days!
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6) you think / ask / tour operators / fly / home early?
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7) I really / no think / can stand / day / this place,
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8) although / beach, / I suppose, / quite nice / and / there be / interesting places / visit / the area,
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9) if only / feel / enough / go out!
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10) write / immediately / your advice / as to what / I / do.
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Yours,
1. Thank you very much for your invitation to spend this weekend with you and your family in your country house.
2. I would love to come but unfortunately I will not be able to accept it.
3. My aunts, who live in England, are going to stay with us from November 13th to this month
4. As it is their first visit to our country, I am planning to show them round.
5. I would like to take them to visit Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and One - Pillar pagoda.
6. We will also go to visit General Vo Nguyen Giap's tomb in Quang Binh if we have time.
7. Is it possible to visit you in December instead ?
8. I can be with you for a few days after my aunts go back to Singapore.
9. Please tell me if the following weekend is convenient for you.
10. I look forward to seeing you all again.