H5Formal Writing - Language & Writing Style

Welcome class H5B
Welcome to English class

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Welcome class H5B
Welcome to English class

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

School rules:
- No phones in class
- You use your laptop, charged, for LessonUp
- No charging in class
- Respect each other, yourself, your teacher
- Stick to agreements/rules we have made
- Be ready to talk if you don't stick to agreements. 

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Programme this year:
  • Formal letter writing
  • Listening & watching (CITO)
  • Speaking: oral exam
  • Reading: final exam HAVO (CITO)

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Lesson materials
  • Teacher handouts, booklet formal writing
  • Signal words list Examenbundel last year
  • Examenbundel: you can order it now if you want, but the school orders it later this year.
  • CITO listening and reading exams
  • BBC, CNN, news
  • Stepping Stones, Follow Up
  • Holmwoods

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

The goal of this lesson:
to learn the do's and don'ts of Formal Writing

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Check pre-existing knowledge

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Dear Sir/Madam,
Your address
recipient's adress

The date
Introduce yourself + reason of writing
Explanation of the situation
Conclusion
Closing sentence
Your name
signature
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Example
This is how it should look 
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Check your letters. What can be better?

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Check your own letters and the feedback.
What can be done better?
Make a top 3 and type it here:

Slide 9 - Open vraag

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What is ALWAYS the correct opening greeting if you DO NOT know who will read your letter?

Slide 11 - Open vraag

How do you end a formal letter?
A
Greetings,
B
Yours sincerely,
C
Sincerely,
D
Yours faithfully,

Slide 12 - Quizvraag

How do we start paragraph 1?
A
Hello! My name is ...
B
I'm writing to ....
C
I am writing to ...
D
Good day Sir.

Slide 13 - Quizvraag

Which one is correct?
A
I am a sixteen-year-old boy/girl
B
I am a boy/girl and I am fourteen
C
I am a fourteen years old boy/girl
D
I am 14 and a boy/girl

Slide 14 - Quizvraag

Which one is correct
A
The reason I write you is...
B
The reason I am writing to you is...
C
The reason i am writing you is
D
The reason i write you is...

Slide 15 - Quizvraag

How do translate 'havo' in British English?
A
Pre-University Education
B
Higher General Secondary Education
C
Pre- College education
D
havo

Slide 16 - Quizvraag

How do you say 'ik zit op het Corderius College'
A
I sit on Corderius
B
I am on Corderius
C
I am at Corderius
D
I go to Corderius College

Slide 17 - Quizvraag

Mind the following!
In a formal letter all words MUST be written in full
So do not use:  isn’t, it’s of won’t, but:
is not, it is en will not. Gonna and wanna  are a definite NO GO!


For names of magazines or newspapers, use quotation marks. The ‘Telegraaf’.

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

DOs
  1. Use paragraphs (and use blank lines to clearly separate them)
  2. Use signal words and the appropriate tenses, wherever necessary
  3. Use a difficult grammar item every now and then (passive, relative clauses)
  4. At the end, check your work!
  5. Make it neat.

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Don'ts
  1.  DON'T forget about the lay-out
  2.  DON'T use abbreviations / contractions (like I'll, didn't)
  3.  DON'T use the first translation you find in a dictionary without checking. 
  4. DON'T forget any content elements 
  5. DON'T use swear words or street language 
  6. DON'T use WhatsApp language (gonna, kinda, u, ur, w8, like ... you know, etc.) 

Slide 20 - Tekstslide

Frequent mistakes
Capital Letters:

When you talk about "ik", "i" is wrong, it is always “I” 

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

Slide 21 - Tekstslide

Frequent mistakes
Word Order

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

Right: 
In my opinion it is great to live in New York

Slide 22 - Tekstslide

FORMAL
INFORMAL
Long sentences
Short sentences
Active voice
Passive voice
Email
Application letter
No contractions

Slide 23 - Sleepvraag

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Slide 24 - Video

Take your handout
Let's check p. 11-12
Correcting a weak formal letter

Slide 25 - Tekstslide

Type all the mistakes you could find:

Slide 26 - Open vraag

Categories:

A - Conventions (address, date, layout, contractions)
B - Language (spelling, grammar, words)
C - Content (all points mentioned in assignment)
D - Style (expressions, word variation, coherence)
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21 points

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

Let's discuss the mistakes in the letter on p. 10-11 together.

Quote from your teacher:
"Mistakes in real life are OK. In a formal letter, they are deadly."

Slide 28 - Tekstslide

Which grade would YOU give this letter?

Slide 29 - Open vraag




Turn your phones off
Take your laptop out

Slide 30 - Tekstslide

Read the text in the next slide
Do you think the poster board is a good idea for this school?
Why (not)?

Slide 31 - Tekstslide

Slide 32 - Link

How much did you miss from last class, do you think, because you were on your phone and/or talking?

Slide 33 - Open vraag

What do you remember
from the last English class?

Slide 34 - Woordweb

personality traits that will get you hired?

Slide 35 - Woordweb

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  • Use adverbs and adjectives to make your writing come alive

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Slide 44 - Link

Most of those heroes have spend half there lifes trying to be ordinary people. (3)

Slide 45 - Open vraag

Ones they where traveling threw South America whit some friends when too of them were kidnaped. (6)

Slide 46 - Open vraag

Those lady’s were trying to get some potato's, tomato's and loafs of bread for free. (4)

Slide 47 - Open vraag

Their are five books about wit here; this one is a lot funnyer then the other once, don’t you think so too? (4)

Slide 48 - Open vraag

Slide 49 - Tekstslide

To do now:
- See the example letter
- Write the first draft of a letter of complaint to a company selling camping items: your new tent leaked on vacation and you want a new one.
- Make up the name and address of the company yourself. 

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