Letter writing II 5H3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome

Road map

• What's going on in this picture?
• Writing skills - Feedback session

What is going on in this picture?

• Watch the photo
• Ask pertinent questions (so: who, what, when, where, why)
• Use your deduction skills and make an educated guess as to what is going on!

The reveal

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you 

• can describe the main differences between a formal and an informal letter;
• you can correctly apply the format of an informal letter to your own work and that of others.

Letter Writing

• Dear Sir/Madam, or Dear Mr/Ms/Mrs, or, Dear Johnny.
• Introduction: state why you are writing the letter.
• Body: elaborate on why you're writing the letter: follow the input on the assignment! C.f. 'I am writing this letter to .....'
• Conclusion/closing lines: I hope that .../ I look forward to ...
• Yours faithfully (when the name of the recipient is unknown)
• Yours sincerely (when the name is known)

Letter Writing

Linking words show you know how to write a text, not just sentences:

• First of all, secondly, thirdly, lastly
• As mentioned in the previous paragraph/before ....
• Use reference pronouns  to refer back to things in earlier sentences. This shows ..... 
  

Peer feedback

Good feedback should be

• constructive
• specific
• kind
• justified 
• relevant.

Peer feedback

Look at:

• have all the formal     requirements been met?
• structure (intro-body-conclusion)
• grammar

Peer feedback

• discuss/judge the work, not the person writing it!
• mark mistakes or things that you think can be improved
• Always indicate WHY and perhaps even HOW! 

Frequent Mistakes

• Mistakes of form
• Word order
• Grammatical tense
• Wrong word! 
• No concord between subject and verb 

Homework

Finished? Start on 'Zakelijke oefenbrief 1' in which your back pack was stolen. 

Study the requirements of both formal and informal letters!