Formal Writing - Language & Writing Style

Basic rules
  • We do our work when we should
  • We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
  • Our phone is in our "zakkie" in our bag
  • We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class
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EngelsMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 4,5

This lesson contains 37 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

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Basic rules
  • We do our work when we should
  • We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
  • Our phone is in our "zakkie" in our bag
  • We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

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Learning goals
  • I can use personality trait words in a formal context 

  • spot the mistakes in a sentence and correct them

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Formal Writing
Language and Writing Style

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Check pre-existing knowledge

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Dear Sir/Madam,
Your address
recipient's adress

The date
Introduce yourself + reason of writing
Explanation of the situation
Conclusion
Closing sentence
Your name
signature
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Slide 5 - Drag question

What is the correct opening greeting if you DO NOT know who will read your letter?

Slide 6 - Open question

How do you end a formal letter?
A
Greetings,
B
Yours sincerely,
C
Sincerely,
D
Yours faithfully,

Slide 7 - Quiz

How do we start paragraph 1?
A
Hello!
B
I'm ...
C
My name is ...
D
Good day

Slide 8 - Quiz

How do you say 'ik zit op het Corderius'
A
I sit on Corderius
B
I am on Corderius
C
I am at Corderius
D
I go to Corderius

Slide 9 - Quiz

Which one is correct?
A
I am a fourteen-year-old boy/girl
B
I am a boy/girl and I am fourteen
C
I am a fourteen years old boy/girl
D
I am 14 and a boy/girl

Slide 10 - Quiz

Which one is correct
A
The reason I write you is...
B
The reason I am writing you is...
C
The reason i am writing you is
D
The reason i write you is...

Slide 11 - Quiz

How do translate 'havo' in British English
A
Pre-University Education
B
Higher General Secondary Education
C
Pre- College education
D
havo

Slide 12 - Quiz

Mind the following
In a formal letter all words MUST be written in full
So do not use:  isn’t, it’s of won’t, but:
is not, it is en will not. Gonna and wanna  are a definite NO GO!


For names of magazines or newspapers, use quotation marks. The ‘Telegraaf’.

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DOs
  1. Make it neat.
  2. Use signal words and the appropriate tenses, wherever necessary
  3. Use paragraphs ( and use blank lines to clearly separate them)
  4. Use a difficult grammar item every now and then (passive, relative clauses)
  5. At the end, check your work!

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Don'ts
  1.  DON'T forget about the lay-out
  2.  DON'T use abbreviations / contractions (like I'll, didn't)
  3.  DON'T use the first translation you find in a dictionary without checking. 
  4. DON'T forget content elements 
  5. DON'T use swear words or street language 
  6. DON'T use dumb language (gonna, kinda, u, ur, w8, like ... you know, etc.) 

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Frequent mistakes
Capital Letters:

When you talk about "ik", "i" is wrong, it is always “I” 

Days of the week, months : Monday, Tuesday, August, October

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Frequent mistakes
Word Order

Wrong:  
In my opinion is it great to live in New York.

Right: 
In my opinion it is great to live in New York

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FORMAL
INFORMAL
Long sentences
Short sentences
Active voice
Passive voice
Email
Application letter
No contractions

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  • Use adverbs and adjectives to make your writing come alive

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Slide 21 - Video

personality traits

Slide 22 - Mind map

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Slide 25 - Link

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Most of those heroes have spend half there lifes trying to be ordinary people. (3)

Slide 30 - Open question

Ones they where traveling threw South America whit some friends when too of them were kidnaped. (6)

Slide 31 - Open question

Those lady’s were trying to get some potato's, tomato's and loafs of bread for free. (4)

Slide 32 - Open question

Their are five books about wit here; this one is a lot funnyer then the other once, don’t you think so too? (4)

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The End

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