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Communication Skills-II

notes same situation as any of you. We see the situation changing steadily for the worse. We will not
cope with that alone.
We see one recourse: Raise the bread price minimally and cancel our free plastic bag service. But
what is next? This is the concern of all the 700 employees and the board of Vladkhleb.
Every extra kopeck in the cost of bread upsets you and us very much. Making our sincere
apologies for a forced increase of the bread price, we hope for your understanding and support.
Today and tomorrow we are with you, as usual.

— The staff and board of Vladkhleb
keywords

Kopeck: An aluminum bronze coin of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, the 100th
part of a ruble.
Krai: It was a type of an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, and
is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.
Waiver: Voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege.

exercises

1. Vladkhleb is ...
(a) a farm

(b) a bakery
(c) a butchery
(d) a motor company
2. In this open letter, Vladkhleb explains to the people of Vladivostok that ...
(a) they can no longer supply bread

(b) the price of bread will treble
(c) all reserves of bread-making ingredients have been depleted
(d) it will have to close down
3. A possible solution to the crisis that Vladkhleb suggests is ...

(a) to use ingredients of a lower quality
(b) to cut the workers’ wages
(c) to urge people to eat less bread
(d) to have the bread price subsidized by the authorities
4. One of the things that Vladkhleb asks the local authorities is ...

(a) more workers
(b) lower energy prices
(c) money to buy fresh ingredients
(d) the permission to buy flour in the US

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