Writing an informal email

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Slide 1: Mind map
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This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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informal email

Slide 1 - Mind map

Writing an in/formal email
  • Informal email or letter means you are writing to friends,family members or people you know
  • An email has 5 main parts:
  • header, salutation, body, closing sentence, name
  • 1. header > From : who sent you an email,  To : the email address you are sending the email to                          Sent: date /specific time   Subject: what your email is about.Subject: what your                                 email is about        
  •   2. Salutation >  Start  your email with Dear + name. You can also start with  Hello,/ Hi,/ Goodmorning, /Goodevening

Slide 2 - Slide

Writing an in/formal email
  • Informal email or letter means you are writing to friends,family members or people you know
  • An email has 5 main parts:
  • header, salutation, body, closing sentence, name
  • 1. header > From : who sent you an email,  To : the email address you are sending the email to                          Sent: date /specific time   Subject: what your email is about.Subject: what your                                 email is about        
  •   2. Salutation >  Start  your email with Dear + name. You can also start with  Hello,/ Hi,/ Goodmorning, /Goodevening

Slide 3 - Slide

Writing an in/formal email
  • 3. Body >In the body you write your message. This could be about a number of topics; asking                       questions, inviting a friend or just sharing information.
  • 4.Closing sentence >  Hope to hear from you /Hope to hear from you soon or I hope you write back soon.
  • 5. Closing + your name
  • Regards / Best wishes,Best wishes, /Love / 

Slide 4 - Slide

Writing an informal email
Always proofread your email and check:
Is there a clear and specific subject ?
Have you entered the email address to the person you are writing to?
Salutation
Closing sentence 
Proper ending
Does each sentence start with a capital? 
Punctuation 
Have you covered all topics you want to write about?
Correct spelling

Slide 5 - Slide

PRACTICE TIME
Your task is to write a neutral/informal email to your colleague from work and ask her for a favour
Follow the instructions on the exercise
Share your email with your classmate to get some feedback

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Slide 9 - Slide

What do we find in the header of an email?
A
email address subject,date
B
own email address ,date, subject
C
email address,subject
D
subject, date

Slide 10 - Quiz

How do you start an informal email?
A
Goodmorning-afternoon-evening
B
Dear + name
C
Hi, hello
D
No name

Slide 11 - Quiz

An email can be sent to more people than one.
A
Yes
B
No
C
I don't know
D
Only two persons at the time

Slide 12 - Quiz

Writing a formal email could be to a/my
A
cousin
B
company
C
grandparents
D
teacher

Slide 13 - Quiz