Week 45

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English - Year 1

To Do

- Writing Workbook: exercise 1- 7

                                           assignment on p. 26

Aims

After this week's lesson you should be able to:

- start and end emails in a formal and informal way.

- ask and answer questions.

- write a short email in which you give advice and your opinion.

Formal vs Informal emails.

Can you give an example of a situation in which you need to be able to write a formal email?

Can you give an example of a situation in which you need to be able to write an informal email? 

Opening and ending

Why is it important to use the correct saluation (opening)  when writing an email?

Exercise 2

Read the chats on p. 20 and  answer the questions:

Which ways to start and end a chat are used? Are they formal or informal?

Which other ways to start and end a chat ( or email/ letter) do you know?

Fill in  as many examples as you know in the box.

Informal

To start: Hi .....

                  Hey .......

                  Dear ........ (neutral)

To end:  Love

                 Kisses

                Yours

                CU

               All the best ( neutral)

              Best wishes ( neutral)

Formal

To start: Dear Sir/ Madam

                   Dear Mr .....

                   Dear Mrs/ Miss / Ms ........

To end: Yours faithfully

                 Yours sincerely

                 Kind regards ( neutral)

                 Best regards ( neutral)

A mistake that is made often:

Dear Tom Brown, > Dear Tom, or Dear Mr Brown,

            

Writing 

Exercise 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Finished: start with the assignment on p. 26, you can use your answers from exercise 5 for this assignment. 

Answers - Exercise 3

1. How are you?

2. Do you remember me?

3. We worked together last year.

4. I'm sorry, I don't remember you.

5. When did you come back?

6. Do you know what happened?

7. Before I left, we broke up.

8. I'm sorry to hear that.

9. Half an hour ago, she sent me a message.

10. She wrote that she missed me.

11. What are you doing now?

Answers - Exercise 4

1. I don't care about money or status.

2. It's important that work is fun.

3. I think electrical engineering is really interesting.

4. I think your education should be useful.

5. The most important thing is that you can earn money.

6. Maybe that's true.

7. I'm not sure who's right.

8. Will you think about it?

Answers - Exercise 6 (examples)

1. Yes, I would. / Yes, I 'd like that.

2. That's fine.

3. Yes, let's do that!/ Great idea! / Why not?

4. We could meet at .....

5. How about half past 7.

6. Yes, I can. / No, I can't.

Answers - Exercise 7

2. Are you free next weekend?                      Yes, I am. / No, I'm not.

3. Can you come to Bristol?                            Yes, I can. / No, I can't.

4. Can you be there at half past eight?      Yes, I can. / No, I can't.

5. Can you meet me at the pub?                   Yes, I can. / No, I can't .

6. Does that sound good?                      Yes, it does. / No, it doesn't. 

7. Would you like that?                             Yes, I would. / No, I wouldn't.

Homework

Finish the assignment on p. 26 and send it to:

 [e-mail]