Regional Dialect Recording Project

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Read the situation below and write an email in response. You have 9 minutes. You should write 80–120 words.

You are volunteering with a local community archive that records how regional accents and vocabulary have evolved over the past fifty years. You need to contact your project supervisor, Dr Higgins, to update her on your progress. You have just completed interviews with three long-term residents and encountered some unexpected scheduling issues for the remaining sessions.

Summarise the findings from your recent interviews with local residents.
Explain the scheduling conflict affecting future recording sessions.
Suggest an alternative timetable to complete the project on time.

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Read the situation below and write an email in response. You have 9 minutes. You should write 80–120 words.

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Workplace Jargon Training Session

You recently attended a departmental seminar about how modern corporate jargon and semantic shifts can confuse junior staff and international clients. You are writing an email to your department manager, Mr Davies, to review the workshop and propose implementing clearer communication standards across your team.

Explain why excessive workplace jargon creates difficulties for certain colleagues.
Ask for approval to draft a concise plain-English glossary for the department.
Recommend holding a short follow-up discussion during the next team meeting.

Community Heritage Language Classes

You and your classmate, Elena, are organising weekly evening classes to help local families preserve an endangered regional language. You have noticed that younger learners struggle with complex verb conjugations and want to adjust the curriculum before next week's session.

Describe the grammatical difficulties younger students are experiencing in class.
Propose introducing interactive storytelling games to practise verb forms.
Ask Elena to review the revised lesson plan before Friday.

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