Writing an informal email

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Writing an informal 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                           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 informal 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
• All best, / Best wishes,Best wishes, /Love, / Greetings,

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

What do we find in the header of an email?

1. your email address and their email adress, subject,
2. own email address ,date, subject
3. their 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

Writing an informal email could be to a/my

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

Opbouw van een brief

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Your email

Their email

Subject

Dear name,

Introduction

The main part of the letter

Finishing the letter

Kind regards,

your name

is the word correct:
wanna

1. yes
2. no

is the word correct:
i

1. yes
2. no

is the word correct:
beautiful

1. yes
2. no

Hoe zeg je in het Engels dat je op een school zit?