CELPIP Reading Part 1Reading Correspondence Practice

Hi Darius,

I wanted to sort out our cooking plan for the family holiday meal with you. I agreed to roast the vegetables and bake both desserts while you prepared the main dish. I was looking forward to it, and everything seemed settled until this week. The reason I’m asking now is that one burner and the smaller oven compartment have stopped working. An electrical fault appeared during a test run and the repair visit is next week.

As a result, my remaining oven space cannot hold the vegetables and desserts on schedule. I first tested the large oven and wrote down realistic cooking times. The roast vegetables fit beside your main dish if they go into your oven for the final hour. I went back through the original information to make sure the difficulty was not based on a misunderstanding. One detail to keep in mind is that I already bought the dessert ingredients and chilled the pastry dough.

My preferred solution is baking the desserts at my place and roasting the vegetables at yours. That would work best because it uses both working ovens without changing the menu or serving time. This seems more practical than rebuilding the arrangement from the beginning. If that works for you, I can update everything else as soon as you reply. Another possibility is replacing the desserts with store-bought pastries.

The difficulty with that option is that Grandma requested the family recipe and the chilled dough would be wasted. I thought about dropping the plan completely, but that would create more trouble than it solves. I’d rather use one of the practical alternatives that is already available. The practical detail I have not resolved is that the vegetable trays are too wide for the rack in my working oven. Please tell me what you think we should do about that part of the plan.

I kept the records about our cooking plan for the family holiday meal together for this review. No other related plan needs to change while this matter is reviewed. A written reply about baking the desserts at my place and roasting the vegetables at yours would prevent confusion. Thank you for considering the timing and practical effects of this request.

I need your answer by Friday evening. We need to tell everyone which kitchen will receive the serving dishes. What I’m hoping is that you can make space for the vegetable trays while I finish both desserts. Once I hear from you, I will label the trays and bring them to your house before noon.

Talk soon,

Priyanka