1.3. Informal letter/Email
Forwork on informal letters or emails, ee page 96
| Task
Read part ofan ema fom a fiend who is planning to come and vist your country
Of course, Id really like to see as much as I can, but with so litle
time (only a week) I wonder if that's feasible, Do you have any
‘suggestions on where to go and what to do in your country?
Reply to the email message fering your fiend some advice Write your email in 220-260,
‘words nan appropriate style
Useful language
Beginning the letter/email Responding to an invitation
+ Thanks so much for yourletter/email.Itwas ogccdta + Thanks very much for imsiting me yout fren dinner
er for you. can hardy wait
+ Fm really sorry not to have written/been in touch for _* [was absolutely thrilled to get your invitation but
ssolong/sucha long time/ately ve been up (0525 Unfortunate it doesn't look asf be able to make it
Jn wrorkipreparing for my exams/out ofemail contact for a As chance would have it, im going avvay that weekend
couple afveets Making request
+ Ithought Fa better send you a message/write/drop youa Iwas wondering ifyou happened to have ie tommeet a
Tine 0 et you know fiend of mine who isplanning tocome ro study
Ending the letter/email your county.
+ Ithink that brings you up to date on what 've been upto, _* If you've gota Spare moment, do you think you could
Dowrite soonand let me know whotyou've been doing emaime the infermation about the scholarship?
* Once again, thanks so much or ilyour help and edvice. Referring toa previous letter/ema
+ mreally looking Forwardtaseehgyou on the + Remember tharcourse you said you had enrolled for?
eighteenth/in two weeks’ time in Barcelona + You told me in your letter/email that you were thinking of
+ Please say'hi'to frome. raking upyaga
ere + Lasttime you wrote, you wanted to know where we were
Sas Blames gan hla
+ Tnrealyeriblylawtily sony thatimssedyourbithday * YOUKROW that end cfm tld you about We,
+ Sony we didnt manage to ae:taeroy wien youweein
Inviting
+ Doyeufancy geting tage fora meal sometime?
+ Wy dont we rymset pin te rex couple ofweeks?
+ Iwas wondering ifyou'd be into coming long toaclass
reunionat theend of next month?Dear Samuel,
——_I thought T'a better repiy as qickly as possidle
since T see you're actually leaving next Monday, Tim 20
exerted. I can't wart to See. ypu.
—— Yos'e gat that in zacis a enoct tme. it won't be
possible to see everything You'd reed at least 2x
months for that! Wnat I would do is to explore one
acea in depth I have to sau that Victor, where T lve,
oda be. an excelent choice.
Yoo coda start by spending a comple of dae in
Melbourne and then rent a car ana head for the Great
Ocean Road. It's a ceally epecracsar coad that fotos
‘the ceastine and stretches for over 150 blomeses, If
T were ypu, Tid plan to spend a comple of days aang
‘long, stopping for ‘the night in Lame. or Apolo bay,
Yoo asked about things to do and I have to say it's
ard to know where to begn. Wie. you‘ in Melbourne,
Ta defintely try to wrt tre National Gallery of
Victena and the South Bank conplex, which ie nearoy,
There are come great bare and (estawants there.
On yo erie along the Coean Read you'l see, all the.
famous aicf beaches bot it's also a great acea for
uualeng There are hencreds of tracks theagh the. cain
forest. I think yps'd really enyey that too
—— Wel, Ta berter stop now. Give me a call as soon a
yoo get m and well meet up somewnere, T might even
Jon ypo on ‘the Ocean Road “tp.