How to write an informal letter

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

How to write a letter

At the top of the letter write:

Your name

Address

 Date 

In English we write the house number before the street name.

Leave lines open before and after the date

Parts of an informal letter

- Your name and address

- Date

- Greeting, begroet degene die je een brief stuurt

- Introduction - "Make contact" + Reason, de reden dat je de brief  schrijft

- Body -Main text, de boodschap van je brief

- Conclusion - wat verwacht je van degene?

- Greeting, sluit je brief weer af met een groet.

- Name

How would you greet someone? Drag the greetings to the right spot.

- Someone you know well, a friend or family member

- Someone you don't know well, a teacher or your boss

- Someone you don't know the name of

Dear Daniel

Dear Mr Johnson

Dear Sir/Madam

Reason for writing

- You are reacting to a letter you got from someone

- You want to know how someone is doing

- you want information on something

- etc.

Waarom schrijf je?

Main text

Write your message to the reader

- Write down what you want to say, make a new paragraph with each thing you talk about.

- Always skip a line between paragraphs to make it nicer to read!

Wat wil je vertellen?

Closing

Write down what you expect from the reader:

- I hope to hear from you soon

- I would like you to hand this in on Monday

- Tell me if you're available Saturday

Wat verwacht je nu van de lezer?

Final greeting

Finish your letter with another greeting:

Formal (to someone you don't know well)

Kind regards, Yours sincerely, Thank you

Informal (to someone close, like friends or family)

Bye, Cheers, Best wishes, Love

Taalblokken - Letter writing

Email versus Informal letter

The format of the informal letter looks basically just like the format of the email that we have practiced during my lessons.

The only difference is that you have to add:
Your Name, Address and Date at the top of the letter. 

It is easy!