Letter to the editor

The following article is part of a series called “German A-Levels/Abitur 2005 English”. In Germany you have your a-levels after the 13rd year in school. Pupils are usually between 17 and 18 years when they have their exams. In the compulsory schools you a broad variety of courses: From German, English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Greek to Science, Maths, Geographics, Physics, Literature, Arts and Sports etc. I prepared myself in 2005 for my a-levels by writing everything down. May these articles help anyone. Enjoy!

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A letter to the local city council concerning the planned construction of an international airport

Attention: department of construction

I am writing to you because of the planned construction of the international airport in the New Jean area.
Hence I am living in this region which is very close to construction site I ask you to rethink the airport’s placement on the basis of the following reasons:
There are various residential zones with a high density of housing;
in two out of eleven regions live a fairly ample amount of young families with little kids and babies.
All those residents won’t be too happy and delighted to receive constant acoustic irradiation caused by the arriving and departing airplanes, as well as the vehicles moving to the airport.
I personally will not accept this harassment.
I won’t let my life be disturbed by every York-Jean flight.
Furthermore keep in mind that the Jean area encloses 9 districts where about 2300000 people live. If necessary I will not hesitate to raise signatures for a complete interdiction-petition.
Speaking of petitions- the environmentalists won’t be too happy about the idea of having this intact and untouched piece of nature destroyed.
I doubt that pro-naturalists and those residents who frequently visit the Jean National Park will support the construction of the airport.
I would appreciate if you took this letter into consideration.
Sincerely yours,
jez

A retarding element causes tension.