Letter Writing: Tips & tricks

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1-6

Letter Writing

Tips & Tricks

Why write letters?

DOs

1. Write proper English, so I can read it.
2. Use signal words, wherever necessary
3. Use paragraphs ( as signified by indentation/blank line)
4. Use a difficult grammar item every now and then (Passive, relative clauses)
5. At the end, check your work.
   

Don'ts

1. Forget about the lay-out
2.  Use the first translation you find in a dictionary without checking. 
3. Forget content elements 
4. Swearing 
5. Dumb language (gonna, u, 2, etc.) 

Frequent mistakes

Capital Letters:

i is wrong, it is always “I” 

Days of the week, months : Monday, Tuesday, August, October

Frequent mistakes

HAVO = Higher General Secondary Education

VWO = Pre-University Education

Frequent mistakes

Word Order

Wrong: Bepaling - ww - O 

In my opinion is it great to live in New York.

Right: Bepaling – O – ww

In my opinion it is great to live in New York

Frequent mistakes

Confusing Couples

There – they’re – their

Your – you’re 

It’s – its 

Two – to - too 

Assignment for this week

Write me a letter where you introduce yourself. The full details will appear on It's Learning after we've finished this Lessonup.

I don't know where ... going

1. there
2. their
3. they're

I don't get it. ... going to have to explain it to me.

1. your
2. you're

I am sure it is autumn because the tree lost all ... leaves.

1. its
2. it's

I love you ...

1. to
2. two
3. too
4. 2

The End