AT THE POST-OFFICE (1)

       If you want to buy stamps, postcards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order, to subscribe to newspapers or maga­zines, you have to go to the post-office.

      At some post-offices there is a special window where you may pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills.

      Yesterday, I had to send a parcel to my friend in another city. So I went to the nearest post-office. I handed the package to the clerk at the window marked «Parcel Post». She weighed it and I paid for the stamps which she stuck on the package.

       Then I went to the next window marked «Stamps». I had to queue up there. When my turn came, I bought writing paper, envelopes and a few stamps. I sat down at a desk and wrote a letter. When the letter was ready, I wrote the address on the envelope, stuck a stamp on it and dropped it into the nearest letter-box.

QUESTIONS:

1. Where do you have to go if you want to buy stamps, post­cards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order?

2. Where may you pay your rent, telephone, gas and elec­tricity bills?

3. Where can you buy stamps and envelopes?

4. What is it necessary to do if you want to send a parcel to your friend?

VOCABULARY:

to subscribe to a newspaper, magazine — подписываться на газету, журнал.

rent — квартирная плата

bill — счет

parcel — посылка

to weigh — взвешивать

to queue up — стоять в очереди

turn — очередь

writing paper — писчая бумага, бумага для писем

address — адрес

to stick (stuck, stuck) — приклеивать, наклеивать

to post — посылать по почте

to drop — опустить, бросить

letter-box — почтовый ящик