AN INFORMAL LETTER

Beginnings
Dear + name,
Dear friend,
Hi + name, (email)
*If you are writing an emails, it's more usual to start with Hi.
If you are writing a letter you should start with Dear.
Opening expressions
Thanks for your emailletter
Thank you !ery mu"h for your letter, I like it.
Thanks so mu"h for your letter...
I am !ery ha##y to hear from you
It was great to hear from you
It was so ni"e to hear from you
I am sorry I ha!en't written to you for so long. I ha!e had a lot of work $ut now I ha!e more free
time.
%orry for not writing earlier $ut I ha!e $een in"redi$ly $usy sin"e I got $a"k&
%orry that I ha!en't $een in tou"h for a while, $ut I ha!e got a lot of work during the last ' days.
I was !ery $usy, $ut now I am more rela(ed.
I am writing $e"ause...
The reason I am writing is $e"ause...
Responding to news (more or less two #aragra#hs)
I am writing to thank you for letting me stay with you in august I had a fantasti" time. The
weather was #erfe"t and I really think my english got $etter. I ho#e you think so too&
How are you) *hat ha!e you $een doing) +nything e("iting) Here e!eryone is fine.
I am sorry%orry to hear a$out your e(ams results.
I am glad,lad to hear that you're all well.
,ood lu"k with the new -o$.
I ho#e you getarefeel $etter soon.
+s you know,
I wonder if you are re"o!ered from... I ho#e so&
Closing expressions
+nyway*ell, that's all for now.
.et me know if you need any more information a$out...
Thanks again for e!erthing.
/lease gi!esend my regards to your familyyour $oyfriend.
I ho#e to hear from you soon.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soonas soon as #ossi$le.
Take "are,
0est wishes,
.o!e from...,
.ots of lo!e,
.o!e,
1egards,
PS (/ost %"ri#t2%omething you forgot and want to add.)
/lease send me the #hotos you #romised.
I enclose a #hoto of the three of us (email3 I attach...)
/lease re#lay
Remember
The address and date should be written in
the righ hand corner.After you have been
written the address, leave a line and write
the date.
If the letter is very informal or it's an email,
the address and date aren't necessary.
Laia Bult Soteras
3 Batlle Dionis Mestre
43400 Montblanc
12th March, 2014
Use informal language:
- Contractions
- Colloquial exressions