Writing Skills 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

WELCOME

Road map

• Block 3: writing skills  
  

Words of the Day

• Furthermore
• to make something up
• still 
• everyday

Make a correct sentence with these  words. 

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Writing skills 

• Use capitals when starting a sentence
• I also has a capital letter!!!
• No 'gonna' and 'wanna'
  
• No swearing: NOT EVER!
  
• No abbreviations
• No contractions

Informal letter

• start with 'Hi' or 'Dear' 
• Introduction, Body, Conclusion
  
• You end with 'Love', 'Best wishes', 'All the best', 'Yours'

Introduction

you introduce yourself and your purpose for writing 

Body

You state your cause, using one topic per paragraph

Conclusion

You end your letter with a line that tells its reader what you would like them to do ('respond, reply, think of me') or a catchy phrase that sums up the content of your letter.  

Your turn

• Write an email
• 200-300 words
• to someone you admire
• Par 1: introduce yourself & your purpose: to let them know you admire them greatly (50- 75 words)

Your turn

• Par 2: tell them why you admire them and what that means to you ( 100- 150)
• Par 3: end your letter. Let the reader know what you expect from them (or hope) (50 - 75 words). 

Your turn

• Leave a blank line between paragraphs 
• Use capitals when you start a sentence and when using 'I' and names
• Mind your dots and commas 

Your turn

• Work on it in class
• Hand in your letter by the end of this class. 
• I will give you feedback on structure and grammar.  

Frequent Mistakes

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

Any questions?

Homework

Thursday 17 Feb 2022:

Study the theory about letter writing, both the formal and the informal letter (Learnbeat, Writing Skills, 5.1 to 5.4).

In class, you will work on 5.3 assignment 1.