HOW TO WRITE

SHORT
COMMUNICATIVE
MESSAGE
PT3 WRITING TEST FORMAT
By :
YM RAJA NUR HAYATI BT RAJA ABDULLAH
Part 1 Part 2
PT3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER 2
40 MARKS

Short
Communicative Semi-formal Essay
Message

20 marks 20 marks
IN THIS SECTION, YOU HAVE TO RESPONSE TO
AN INFORMAL MESSAGE
YOU ARE ADVISED TO FOLLOW THE WORD LIMIT
 E-mail
 Informal Letter
 Short Message
 Note
 Postcard
DO & DON’TS

Dos Don’ts
Miss out any
Read the task important
at least 2 times information/ke
carefully yword in the
instruction
such as
Use ‘opinion’,
contractions ‘advice’..
such as I’m,
I’ve, can’t..
Too formal

Makes it sound
“Chatty” as if
Write too long
you are talking
and exceed the
to your friends
word limits
IMPORTANT POINTS

Greetings

Pen off Intention

REMEMBER

Reason Reason
2 1
EXAMPLES HOW YOU CAN
START YOUR WRITING
 Greetings
 Hi, how are you?
 Hey, how’s going?

 Intention & State your choice

 The reason I write this ___________ to you is
because I want to ____________________
EXAMPLES HOW YOU CAN
START YOUR WRITING
 Reason 1
 Firstly, I think you should _______ because _____
 Firstly, I would like to suggest ___________
because _____________
 I think you would like it because ___________
 This is good opportunity to _______________
EXAMPLES HOW YOU CAN
START YOUR WRITING

 Reason 2
 Furthermore, ___________
 Moreover, __________________
 In addition, ___________
 Other than that, ___________________
 Besides, ________________
EXAMPLES HOW YOU CAN
START YOUR WRITING

 Pen off
I hope you can make it
 I hope you can join
 I need to go now. Talk to you soon. Bye
 Drop me a line as soon as you see this. Take care
USEFUL EXPRESSION THAT WE
CAN USE TO GIVE SUGGESTIONS
 You should ____________
 You ought to ___________
 If I were you _______________
 Why don’t you __________________
 It would be a good idea to ___________
 What you should do is ____________
 How about ________________
 I think you should ______________
 The best advice I can give you is _________
CLOSING REMARKS
 I trust you will accept this advise
 Looking forward to hear from you
 Let me know if you need anything
 Keep in touch!
 That’s all for now
 Look after yourself
 Write back soon!
 Hope to hear from you soon
IDIOMS TO BE USED…
 Opening
 Hi, how’s it going? I hope you’re as fit as fiddle. I
am over the moon to know that you’re coming to
Perak.

 Closing
 Okay, I think I need to pen off now. I have
got bigger fish to fry. See you soon my friend!
Goodbye!
LINKING WORDS
 Giving examples
 For example
 For instance
 Sequencing ideas
 Firstly/First and foremost
 Secondly
 Finally (or lastly)
 Adding information
 In addition
 As well as
 Also
 Too
 Furthermore
 Moreover
 Apart from
 In addition to
 Besides
 Giving a reason
 Because
 Because of
 Since
 As
 Giving a result
 Therefore
 So
 Consequently
 This means that
 As a result
 Contrasting ideas
 But
 However
 Although/even though
 Despite
 In spite of
 While
 Whereas
 Unlike
THANK YOU