Writing

AN INFORMAL EMAIL Useful language: an informal email

Opening expressions
From: Anna Thanks ı ______ your email / letter.
johnston586@gmail.com It was great 2______ hear from you.
Subject: News! Sorry for 3______ writing earlier / Sorry that I
haven't been in touch fo r a while.
Hi Olivia, 14______ you and your family are well.
Sorry that I havent been in touch for a while, but I've been sick. I got the Responding to news
flu last week and I had a temprature of 102°F, so I’ve been in bed since Sorry s______ hear about your final grades.
four days. I’m feeling a little better today, so I’ve been catching up on Glad to s______ th a t you're all well.
my emails. Luckly my college classes don't start until next week. Good 7______ with the new job.
Hope you 8______ b etter soon.
How are you? What have you been doing? Anything exciting. Here
everyone are fine (apart from me and my flu!). My brother Mike
Closing expressions
started his new job with a software-company - I think I told you Anyway, / Well, that's all 9______ now.
Hope to hear from you soon. / Looking
about it when I wrote last time - anyway, he's really enjoying it. How
10______ to hearing from you soon.
is your family? I hope their well.
n ______ my regards (love) to...
I have some good news - I'm going to a conference in your town in Take 12______ /13 ______ wishes / Regards /
may, from the 16th to the 20th. Could you recomend a hotel where I (Lots of) love from...
could stay near the downtown area? It needs to be somewhere not ______ (= something you forgot and want to
add) Please send me the pictures you promised.
too expensive because my college is paying. I'll have a free half-day
for siteseeing. Do you think you'll be able show me around? That
would be great. d P lan the content o f your em ail.

Well, that's all for now. Please give my regards to your family.
1 U nderline the questions in the email that
Anna wants you to answer.
Hope to hear from you soon.
2 U nderline other places in the email where
Take care, you think you need to respond, e.g., I ’ve
been sick.
Anna
3 Think about how to respond to each o f the
things you’ve underlined.
e W rite 1 2 0 -1 8 0 w ords, in two o r three
Beginning an informal email paragraph s. U se inform al language
When you are w riting an informal email, it is more usual to s ta rt w ith (contractions, etc.) and expressions
Hi than w ith Dear.
from U s e fu l lan gu age.

a R ead the em ail from A nna. It h as 12 highlighted m istakes, four f C h e ck your em ail for m istakes (gram m ar,
gram m ar o r vocabulary, four punctuation, and four spelling. punctuation, and spelling).
W ith a partner, decide w hat kind o f m istake each one is and
correct it. < p .!5

b R ead A n n a’s em ail again and find sentences that m e an ...

I haven't written or called.
I've been reading and replying to my emails.
Have you been doing anything exciting?
c You’re going to answ er A nna’s em ail. Look at the U se fu l
la n g u a g e expression s and try to com plete them.

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