Lesson 1 N4

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Welcome

What are we going to do today?

- First, we are going to repeat the rules of how to start a letter
- Then I will send you a paper in which you can find some important/useful sentences for your exam.
- Furthermore, we will be repeating the rules of how to end a letter
- Finally, you will be writing your own letter
- When we have some time left we will be doing a listening exercise from the book together.

Please log in into this lessonup because there will be a lot of interactive questions today

How can you start a letter?

Je schrijft een brief aan Mevrouw Smith (ongehuwd).
Hoe begin je?

1. Dear Mrs Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Ms Smith,
4. Dear Mr Smith,

Je schrijft een brief aan Mevrouw Smith (je weet niet of ze getrouwd is).
Hoe begin je?

1. Dear Ms Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Mr Smith,
4. Dear Mrs Smith

Je schrijft een brief aan Mevrouw Smith (getrouwd ).
Hoe begin je?

1. Dear Mrs Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Mr Smith,
4. Dear Ms Smith,

Bij welke briefsoort begin je je brief met:
Dear John,

1. Formele brief
2. Informele brief

I will now send you a file through the teams chat which we will briefly read together. This file contains some handy sentences for your exam.

schrijven aanhef, opening, afsluiting

How can you end a letter?

You know the name of the person of which you have been writing to (formal). How do you end?

1. Yours faithfully,
2. Yours sincerely,
3. Greetingz!

You don't know the name of the person of which you have been writing to (formal). How do you end?

1. Yours faithfully,
2. Yours sincerely,
3. Bye bye!

Summary

- formal letter start: Dear Sir/Madam, Dear Mrs Smith, Dear Miss Smith, etc.
  formal letter end: Yours faithfully, OR Yours sincerely,

- informal letter start: Dear Peter, Hello Samira, etc.
  informal letter end: Kind regards,  All the best, etc. 

- Always use capital I (at the start, middle, end --> always!)
- Make sure you use your tenses consequently
- Make use of paragraphs (at least three)

We will now have a look at a correct English formal letter.

Writing exercise

Write an email to restaurant 'Miguel's Seafood'

Points that should be included:
- start your letter correctly
- tell them that you had take-away at the restaurant; name the date, time, name etc.
- write that you have been very ill after eating a fish dish, tell them how ill you have been
- ask for a proper solution/compensation
- end your letter correctly

Make sure you use around 150/200 words