Writing an informal email

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• Leerjaar 1

informal email

Writing an in/formal email

• Informal email or letter means you are writing to friends,family members or people you know
• An email has 5 main parts:
• header, salutation, body, closing sentence, name
• 1. header > From : who sent you an email,  To : the email address you are sending the email to                          Sent: date /specific time   Subject: what your email is about.Subject: what your                                 email is about        
•   2. Salutation >  Start  your email with Dear + name. You can also start with  Hello,/ Hi,/ Goodmorning, /Goodevening

Writing an in/formal email

• Informal email or letter means you are writing to friends,family members or people you know
• An email has 5 main parts:
• header, salutation, body, closing sentence, name
• 1. header > From : who sent you an email,  To : the email address you are sending the email to                          Sent: date /specific time   Subject: what your email is about.Subject: what your                                 email is about        
•   2. Salutation >  Start  your email with Dear + name. You can also start with  Hello,/ Hi,/ Goodmorning, /Goodevening

Writing an in/formal email

• 3. Body >In the body you write your message. This could be about a number of topics; asking                       questions, inviting a friend or just sharing information.
• 4.Closing sentence >  Hope to hear from you /Hope to hear from you soon or I hope you write back soon.
• 5. Closing + your name
• Regards / Best wishes,Best wishes, /Love / 

Writing an informal email

Always proofread your email and check:

Is there a clear and specific subject ?

Have you entered the email address to the person you are writing to?

Salutation

Closing sentence 

Proper ending

Does each sentence start with a capital? 

Punctuation 

Have you covered all topics you want to write about?

Correct spelling

PRACTICE TIME

Your task is to write a neutral/informal email to your colleague from work and ask her for a favour

Follow the instructions on the exercise

Share your email with your classmate to get some feedback

What do we find in the header of an email?

1. email address subject,date
2. own email address ,date, subject
3. email address,subject
4. subject, date

How do you start an informal email?

1. Goodmorning-afternoon-evening
2. Dear + name
3. Hi, hello
4. No name

An email can be sent to more people than one.

1. Yes
2. No
3. I don't know
4. Only two persons at the time

Writing a formal email could be to a/my

1. cousin
2. company
3. grandparents
4. teacher