Writing emails U6

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Writing emails U6

Speaking rubric-check next lesson!

Grab your laptop, SB, pen/pencil, schriftje

• What is informal and formal
• An example of something formal
• An example of something informal

At the end of this lesson, you can

-Identify when something is formal or informal

-Apply a simple email structure

-Apply indirect questions in a text

-Write/create a formal email

Formal

Informal

Chatting with friends

Business Meeting

Official Documents

Social Media

Personal Emails

Creative Writing

Job Application

Presentation

Formal language

Informal language

Hey dude, how's it going?

I am writing this email to file a complaint

Dear Mr Burnsley,

Hello James,

He's always doing so much stuff.

Your book sucks.

Can you tell me if that novel is suitable for children.

which one is formal?

1. I'm writing because
2. I am writing to you because
3. I am writing because

Which one is more formal?

1. I will be attending the meeting.
2. I'll be at the meeting.

Which is formal?

1. The boy in question
2. The kid I’m talking about

What is the correct order of writing an email? 

Drag and drop: from top to bottom:

Introduction > reason for writing

Dear Ms/Mr,

Conclusion of the text

Kind regards,

Body of the text

Your  full name

Open your Gold Experience book on page. 76

-Look at the emails in exercise 2 and 3

-Make one of the two emails formal (what do you need to change?) and add 2 or more indirect questions.

Read the email (informal) in exercise 6

What four things would you need to add?

What area's around you could she visit?

Write down where and why she should go there.

How confident would you feel to write an email?

😒🙁😐🙂😃

Write a response email (formal)

-Use indirect questions (2 or more)

-Use the notes you made before (4 needed points + places to visit)

Welcome

Grab your SB, reading book, notebook & laptop

Take a seat, please :)

Start reading your book

& look at your rubric

Today:

1. Read your book = done

2. Do recap in your SB and do any exercises you want = 10 mins:

p80: ex 1, 5 / p137: ex 4, 5 / 

p141: ex 5, 6 / p104: ex 1, 4, 6

3. Write a formal email - in your notebook or laptop: make sure you can send/give it to me @ the end

4. If finished, read your book or chill quietly

Formal email requesting info

1. start the email politely: Dear Sir/Madam; Dear + Surname...

2. don't use abbreviations (e.g. asap), slang (e.g. u ipv you), or contractions (e.g. didn't ipv did not)

3. say why you are writing (or say what you're responding to)

4. ask questions (bc you're not sure about something) = ask indirect questions

5. mention that you would like a reply = I look forward to verb+ing...

6. finish the email politely: Yours faithfully / Yours sincerely / Kind regards

Write an email

In a word doc, write a formal email to the chocolate factory. 

Make sure you ask 4 indirect questions - look at the LessonUp about the grammar if needed.
 
Hand your doc in via Teams Opdrachten before Monday,
25th November!