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Unit 6 • Formal letters
37 Acorn Street
November 7th
Dear Mr Scrooge ,
I've been your tenant here for seven months now, and I've got
lots of things to complain about .
First , the gas cooker, which is an absolute death trap . I t is
an antique model - some would say a museum piece - that leaks
gas constantly. Quite apart from the fact that the gas is
liable to poison me, there is a good chance the cooker will
one day explode and burn your house down. What's more , its
meagre two rings are slow and inadequate, while the oven (which
doesn't close properly because of the huge dent in the door)
is so thick wi th dirt that i t is beyond cleaning . So, as you
can see, a new cooker is urgently needed, and it's you who
should pay for it since I'm renting the flat as 'furnished' .
Secondly, the heating : two one - kilowatt electric fires in the
whole flat . This has been incredibly expensive and totally
insufficient throughou t the autumn . Now, with winter corning on,
I 'm in danger of freezing to death while you take a holiday i n
the Bahamas paid for with my rent money. I shall expect an
adequate heating system t o be i ns talled be fo r e the end of
November .
Finally, the windows . They don 't shut properly (for that
matter, neither do the doors) so there's always a howling
draught blowing through the house . Actually, so many of the
panes are broken that i t wouldn't make much difference if the
windows did shut . Please do something about this , preferably by
r ep l ac i ng the whole lot with double glazing . If you don 't do
this be fore wint er sets i n , I 'll be obl i ged to spend my rent
money on making the house fit for human habitation instead of
giving the money directly to you .
Yours sincerely,
Oliver Twist
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