Informal email writing

Email writing

Open Ended

How do you start an informal email? Which greeting do you use?

You can start an email using

Dear Ana,

Hi Ana,

Hi Ana!

Multiple Select

Which sentence(s) would be the best to start your email?

• Thanks for writing! It was so good to hear from you!

• I am writing to tell you about my evening.

• You'll never guess what happened to me last night! Let me tell you everything!

• I am going to tell you what happened last night.

​Start you email

• Thanks so much for your email! Sorry I haven't written for a while but I've been super busy at school.

• Thank you for your email, it was so good to hear from you! It's been ages since we last wrote to each other, let's catch up!

• Thanks for your mail! It was wonderful to hear all your news. I'm fine, working hard at school and of course hanging out with friends!

Multiple Select

In an informal email you should include:

• formal phrases

• contractions

• exclamation marks

• informal phrases

Anyway,

Well,

By the way,

Oh, another thing I must mention

Don't forget phrasal verbs too!

• Guess what?

• You'll never guess what happened to me!

• Let me tell you something incredible!

• If you ask me

• To tell you the truth

Use informal phrases such as;

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is correct?

• And you will never guess what my dad did!

• In other words, Richard was cheating in this bet.

• After that, they went to Mike’s study and he showed off all the wines that he had.

• Mike's servant gave the epicure his glasses, which he'd left in the study just before having dinner.

Linkers - make sure you use but, while, although, whereas, what's more

Never start a sentence with and

- don't overuse and

- use relative pronouns, which, where, when etc

what tenses you are using

punctuation - full stops

- exclamation marks

- paragraphs

vary your sentence length

When writing consider:

Open Ended

How do you end an email? What closing sentence should you use?

Ending an informal email

• Well, that's all for now!

Write soon!

• Well, time to go!

See you soon!

• Make sure you write soon!

• Got to go now!

Hope to hear from you soon!

Open Ended

Then after the closing sentence what should you write?

Final closing phrase

• Best wishes,

• Lots of love,

• Love,

• All the best,

• Take care,

Obviously all these would be followed with your NAME! Or the name of the person writing the email!