Bahan

AJAR

Personal
Letter

By : Iis Novita Sari,S.Pd

Read the letter given below!

35 Senggigi Raya
Lombok
75009 Nusa Tenggara Timur

12 January 2014
My Dear Lovely Sweetie,
Hello!

How are you, sweetiee? I know you are angry with me because I am

writing to you after a long time. I am so sorry, please forgive me.You know we

are in Lombok right now. It is so beautiful beyond imagination. I am writing to

you from this really cute little café on the Senggigi beach. As you know, mum

loves shopping, so she goes and will go for hours. I took a rain check from

shopping and decided to write to you while I enjoy my cup of coffee.

You know, yesterday we went to Gili Nanggu Island; it is a beach on the

southwest of Lombok. The place is awesome. It is so beautiful I couldn't believe

my eyes. There are beautiful coral reefs everywhere. We went for snorkeling and

we saw the most amazing fish ever. I wish you were here; it would have been

much more fun.

Mum was making sure that we didn't miss any sight of the whole city, so we

had practically been everywhere.

I have to go, mum is here. I will see you soon.

Lots of love
XOXO

Lana

P.S. I'm bringing you lots of souvenirs and pictures!!

1. have you ever found the kind of the letter?

2. what is the type of the letter?
 What is
Personal letter?
 Personal Letter

Personal letter is a letter which is written for someone

you know. Example : friend, family, classmate, pen pal,
best friend, etc.
Social functions of the personal letter are to inform
and strengthen the bond between people that
writing to each other.

Here are common purposes to write a personal letter:

to tell good news/ bad news
to give advice
asking for help
apologizing
Structure of personal letter:
Date (date when the letter is written)
Address (place where you are writing from)
Salutation (greeting and person's name you are writing to)
Introduction (The opening of the letter usually start with how are

you or refers to previous letter)

Body (The main part of the letter. It includes what you want to

write to the receiver

closure (the part indicates the letter is going to end
complimentary close (short expressions like "love you", "sincerely

yours", "love"
Signature of the writer
Postscript P.S After thought in a letter. You begin with P.S and

end it with your initials

 Some useful expressions for letter writing:

i'm just writing to thank you for......

it was very kind of you to.....
Gratitude
thank you very much
i am very grateful for.......

- Well, I thought about it and if I were you, I would ....

Giving - Have you thought about ....?
Advice - I think you shouldn't ....
- In your last letter you asked me about ...., I think ....

- I'm sure you will be happy to hear that ....

- I am sure that you'll be interested to know that ....
delivering
- By the way, did you know that ....?
good news - OMG!! You'll never guess what happened!
- I am totally ecstaƟc to hear about ....
- I was happy beyond limits to read that ....

- I'm sorry but I have to tell you that ....

delivering
- Bad news, I'm afraid, but no way to avoid it, so here it goes ....
bad news - I'm extremely sorry to hear that ....
- It was heart wrenching to read about ....

- I wonder if you could help me.

asking for
- I hope it's not too much to ask but ....
help - I wonder if I could ask you a favor. Could you ....?

- I would like to apologize for ....

- I'm so sorry that ....
apologizing
- Words are not enough to erase the pain I have given you but I
want to say how sorry I am ....
 Let's see the example!
Address
Salutation
Kupang,
Date April 2, 2018
Dear Paula,
Hello Paula, Greeting

Introduction
How are you? It’s been a month since l last heard from you. Well l just
wanted to tell you that I was in a hospital last week. According to the doctor l was
infected by dengue fever.
At first, I felt my body became weak then fainted when was studying in the
classroom. Then, I was taken to the hospital because of the high fever. At the
hospital, I was brought into the emergency unit. The doctor immediately gave
some treatments. Finally, l had to stay there for one week. Everyday the doctor
kept
me on a drip. At the seventh day, my condition was getting better. After the final
check, the doctor gave me permission to go home. Now, I’m okay and because of
my illness, I am now more careful about keeping in my house clean especially my
room, I don’t want to get the same illness again.
OK, think that’s all from me, write to me soon ok? I am looking forward to
seeing you soon. Complimentary close

Body
Regards Closing

Nadira
Signature

The social function of the letter is to inform Paula about Nadira's

condition
 Language features of

personal letter
1. Language use may be personal like first

and second person pronouns

Example : I, you, we

2. Use of contractions
Example :such as “ I’ll, I’m, we’ll “

3. Slang can be used

Example : just drop it (lupakan saja)
take it easy (santai saja)

4. write in natural natural, conversational

style

 Another example of personal letter

Surabaya, February 1st, 2017

Dear Nathan

How are you? Hope everything is okay with you. I’m all

right here. We are going to have the national examination,

aren’t we? Are you well prepared for it? Well, to be honest, I

just have some difficulties in preparing for it, especially in

Science. There are extra lessons in my school and I take

them all. But, I feel that they don’t help. I’m still confused in

solving Mathematic problems. I’m just worried that I

fail the national examination. Do you have any suggestion

for me? I really appreciate your help.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Your buddy,

Rendy

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