UNIT – 1

INFORMAL LETTER WRITING

DESCRIBE THE PICTURE
 ⮚What is a letter ?
⮚Why do we write letters?
⮚How do we write it?
FORMAT OF AN INFORMAL LETTER

⮚Sender’s address
⮚ Date
⮚Salutation (greetings – Dear ____)
⮚Body of the letter (details – 3 paragraphs)
⮚Complimentary note
⮚Sender’s name
 KINDS OF LETTERS
Formal letter is usually written for official Informal letters are written to friends
reasons. A formal letter, also known as and relatives for personal communication
a business letter, and it is written in and require a casual or an emotional
a formal language with a specific tone.
structure and layout. For example:
For example: Letters to parents,
⮚ Letters to Principal and teachers Letters to relatives
⮚ Letters to Editors Friendly letters
⮚ Letters written for business purpose
⮚ Letters for Government Officials
⮚ Letters for Job application
⮚ Complaint letters
FORMAT OF A FORMAL LETTER
⮚ Sender’s address
⮚ Date
⮚ Receiver’s address
⮚ Subject
⮚ Salutation (greetings ____)
⮚ Body of the letter (details – 3 paragraphs)
⮚ Complimentary note
⮚ Sender’s name
 HOW DO THEY LOOK ?
INFORMAL FORMAL

Sender’s Address
Sender’s Address
Date
Date
Receiver’s Address
Salutations
Subject :

Salutations
Body of the letter

Body of the letter

Subscription Subscription
Signature Signature
Name
Some Key Features of Formal and Informal letters
How to write Formal Letters?
Sender’s Address

No. 542
4th Block, Mahatma Gandhi Road
Rajaji Nagar
Bengaluru
 Types of Formal Letters
Letter to editor
Letter to the Government agencies
Letter to the heads of school/college/institutes
Placing orders
Letters of enquiry
Application for job
Leave Application
 Date

26 June 2023

Receiver’s Address

The Executive Engineer

BWSSB
Rajaji Nagar,Bengaluru
 Subject

Sub : “Request to supply drinking water

Salutations

Dear sir/madam
Respected sir/madam
Honoured sir/madam
Revered sir/madam
 Body of the letter
Introduction
Details
Summary
Subscription

Kindly do the needful sir/madam

Thanking you / Thanking you in anticipation
Yours faithfully/sincerely
Signature
[Writer’s name ]
 Topic

Write a letter to the editor of ‘The Times of India’

complaining about the nuisance created by the use
of loudspeakers. You are Sharmila /Sharma, a
resident of Sector 15, Vasundhara Enclave, New
Delhi.