Letter Writing Year 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Dear B2h,

You will watch the video about how to write a formal letter for a Cambridge exam.

Please watch and listen carefully to the tutorial.

This is also a listening practice for your upcoming listening test in about two weeks. You need to get used to listening and understanding different English accents with their diverse pronunciations.

With this lesson you will receive the letter, DAFOREST techniques and sentence starters.

See if you can find some of the DAFORESTS in the letter highlighting them and make a note of which one it is.

together with teacher look at the answers

21:00-22:43

How to write a formal letter

Jane is going on a camping trip with her school. Here's a letter the school wrote to the parents. Read the formal letter and fill in the missing words.

........................... Parents,

The Year 8 annual camping trip is approaching fast. .................................... you this letter with a list of what each student should bring.

- .....................................  for both indoor and outdoor activities

- a torch

- sensible .......................

I will provide an updated schedule next Tuesday evening during the Q & A session Mr Thomas will present.

..................... ,

Mrs Holloway

Head teacher

........................... Parents,

The Year 8 annual camping trip is approaching fast. ....................................you this letter with a list of what each student should bring.

- .....................................for both indoor and outdoor activities

- a torch

- sensible .......................

I will provide an updated schedule next Tuesday evening during the Q & A session Mr Thomas will present.

..................... ,

Mrs Holloway

Head teacher

Dear

Hi

I am sending

I'm sending

clothes and stuff

appropriate clothing

shoes

footwear

Love

Kind regards

BODY

Start your letter with the reason you are writing

I am writing to ..............

Make a suggestion

Make a complaint

Give / receive information

confirm something

accept / deny an invitation

Apply for a job position

The Pre-ending statement

This is the sentence to announce the end of your letter, and it must be written as a separate paragraph.

I look forward to verb+ ING

I look forward to ...............................

I look forward to + anything else

I look forward to your reply

Or

Should you have any doubt please do not hesitate to contact me.

I am writing to inform you of my total disgust at the dreadful journey which I suffered on one of your trains last weekend. Let me get straight to the point: the service was utterly appalling and I wish to request a full refund.

Firstly, my train ticket for this awful journey was booked a long time in advance. I had reserved a seat in the quiet carriage and did not want a table. Boarding the train, I found to my annoyance that your staff had decided to place my reserved ticket in a different seat. I could not bring myself to ask the heavily pregnant woman who had taken my seat to swap, so I had to place myself next to the foul toilet. Why should I have to do this? Stupidly, I had paid extra to reserve my seat. I was furious.

Secondly, I was shocked by the state the train had been left in by previous passengers. 95% of the floor was covered by fast food, drink and newspapers while my seat had a stinky stain on it. Revolted and repulsed, I had no choice but to sit on it due to the train being so overcrowded. How often is the train meant to be cleaned? It is my expectation that the mess should be cleaned up by the train staff and not for the next paying passenger to sit on.

Finally, the quiet carriage on your train was far from peaceful. Rowdy children, screaming babies and drunken football fans were all competing to see who could be the loudest. Quickly, I was rudely disturbed by a group of teenagers who were throwing lager cans and verbally abusing most of the patient passengers. After complaining to the guard, I was informed that ‘there is nothing we can do’ and another member of staff suggested I should stop complaining. Around 50% of the passengers I spoke to were so fed up they terminated their journey early. How can you justify the 85 Euro ticket for such a pathetically poor journey? Surely you wish to provide an exceptional service? Sadly, you failed on this occasion.

Due to these problems caused by your terrible train service, I expect a full refund. I should not have to spend my hard earned money on your atrocious service which ruined my day and left me feeling exhausted and stressed.

Homework

 write a draft of the checkpoint practice letter

Your local newspaper is going to give an award to a person who has done something that required courage and determination. Think of a person you could nominate for this award.

Wriet a letter to the editor making your nomination

You will need to think about:

who the person is

what he or she has done

Reasons why you think they should win the award

 HOMEWORK - write a draft of the checkpoint practice letter. Bring draft to Monday's lesson.

Your local newspaper is going to give an award to a person who has done something that required courage and determination. Think of a person you could nominate for this award.

Write a letter to the editor making your nomination

You will need to think about:

who the person is

what he or she has done

Reasons why you think they should win the award

Write out a plan for the letter writing task

Target Reader

Who are the recipients? Who is actually going to read your letter? You want to cause them to do something as a result of your letter.

Is your language appropriate to your goal? Is there enough detail in your letter to convince the target reader?

Make sure that you write enough specific detail prove your point and convince the reader

Last weekend you had to travel by train. The journey was disasterous and ruined your day.

You decide to write a letter of complaint to the train company, making a convincing case for a full refund.

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am writing to inform you of my total disgust at the dreadful  journey which completely ruined the rest of my day on one of your trains last weekend. Let me get straight to the point: the service was utterly appalling and I wish to request a full refund

start a letter by rephrasing the task

Your local newspaper is going to give an award to a person who has done something that required courage and determination. Think of a person you could nominate for this award.

The Content.

 

Each content point you introduce you need to develop.

 

Add detail, but don’t overburden the reader with too many points but develop your point use your language to best of your abilities.

Communicative achievement

Always think about the target reader.

Don’t call anyone an idiot or fool, and don’t end your letter by threatening legal action. Try to convince the reader through evidence and good argumentation.

Organisation

Open and close your letter appropriately. Don’t worry too much about yours faithfully and your sincerely, simply write ‘Best regards/ at the end.

Put one content point each paragraph, and develop your point with linking words. Try to show the links between the paragraphs as well.

Wherever possible, use topic-specific language. In discussion of music and concerts, you can mention one or two of the genres being performed, and get creative there:

‘The most impressive performance involved a fusion of ska and modern classical music that delighted the audience’.

Don’t let your sentences run on too long. It’s hard to follow what you’re saying, split the sentences up.

If you want to use more sophisticated language, get specific in your writing. 

Instead of saying ‘many people attended the festival’, write ‘close to a thousand people were in attendance on the first day’.

Using a dictionary

write your letter to the newspaper editor, according to all the letter writing rules.

A4 letter font 12 Arial

one and a half page long.

For those who have written their draft. Change, add or expand and write your final version.

Hand in on magister Thursday 3 February.