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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.

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