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My chief duty as an office boy was to copy letters. Only very few of the communications were then typewritten. There were no female typists and only the most senior of the staff had male shorthand writers attached to them. All inter-office letters and ordinary letters to clients were written in copying ink by the clerks concerned, and all these letters had to be copied by damping |
[<] slowed down [>] speeded up [^] went back one page [^^] went back to the beginning [+] came back to this point [7] pause of (eg) 7 secondsThis allows the learner to look at the text at leisure and try to see what, if anything, caused problems, or to take the text to a teacher, look at it together, and get advice.
Did Mr Lee have a happy marriage?and the other a personal reaction question such as
Do you think office boys nowadays find their work easier or more interesting than the writer's?These questions are never answered by the program itself, of course, but are intended to provide material for follow-up discussion in a feedback session.