Formal Writing 4 - Language & Writing Style

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Voorbeeld

Erasmuslaan 25

6525 HP Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Noah Hill

55 Oxford street

IF 050 Manchester

United Kingdom

15 September, 2019

Dear Mr Hill,

I am writing in response to your question of when the order of fifteen boxes of socks will be shipped to your location. My assistant has inquired me that the delivery date will be the 20th of this month. I hope this answers your question.

I would like to know when your store will begin with the sale of the socks. I would also like to receive the sales figures of the latest hat collection.

I look forward to hearing from you soon. If you require any further information, feel free to contact me as well.

Yours Sincerely,

[handtekening]

Hannah Rijger

Sales manager

 Erasmuslaan 25

 6525 HP Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Noah Hill

55 Oxford street

IF 050 Manchester

United Kingdom

15 June, 2023 

Dear Mr Hill,

brief, maak alinea's

Yours Sincerely,

[handtekening]

Hannah Rijger

Toetsweek 4 - Engels 

Test - Write a (formal) letter 

Woordenboek Ned - Eng toegestaan

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

How do you say 'ik zit op het SWC'

1. I sit on the SWC
2. I am on the SWC
3. I am at the SWC
4. I go to the SWC

Which one is correct

1. The reason I write you is...
2. The reason I am writing you is...
3. The reason i am writing you is
4. The reason i write you is...

How do translate 'havo' in British English

1. pre-university education
2. senior general secondary education
3. pre- college education
4. havo

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’.

DOs

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

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 content elements 
5. DON'T use swear words or street language 
6. DON'T use dumb language (gonna, kinda, u, ur, w8, like ... you know, etc.) 

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

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

• Use adverbs and adjectives to make your writing come alive

personality traits

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

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

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

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

Write down 3 mistakes from the previous letter

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