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This assignment pack is designed for students and tutors working in open, flexible, or distance learning in Britain. Each of the six sections contains the following: (1) a detailed contents page that identifies the assignment under an activity heading, an individual title, and indication of the relationship to the City and Guilds of London accreditation system; (2) a variety of assignments; and (3) answers to the assignments for student self-checking. Skills the user needs before beginning are listed for each assignment. Each assignment is freestanding, though part of a thematic area. A signpost system guides the user through the pack; a key to the symbols is provided. The six sections, and representative assignment topics, are as follows: travel (making a hotel reservation, planning a route by rail, reading a pie chart); personal finances (planning a weekly/monthly budget, request for a car insurance quotation, filling in a motor accident report form); job seeking (finding/working out the cost of a classified advertisement, writing letters to employers, job application form, using yellow pages); media (reading a newspaper, accommodation, looking for a job, using a video recorder, using a remote control); housing (reading a mortgage application form, organizing a move, reading an insurance policy, using a map to find local facilities); and health (health at work, salt, sugar, smoking, retirement pensions, eye tests). (YLB)