Writing an informal e-mail

​[e-mail]

Come and see me!

Labelling

Label the different parts of the email.

The colors are there to help you.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Main Paragraph 3

Opening paragraph

Greeting

Main Paragraph 1

Subject

Sign-off

Closing paragraphs

Main Paragraph 2

Match

Match the following email parts with their purpose.

• Start with a friendly hello.

• Ask how the person is doing and react to their previous email.

• State the main reason for writing.

• Present the other important points.

  Provide additional details or suggestions.

Greeting

Opening paragraph

Main paragraph 1

Main paragraph 2

Main paragraph 3

• Greeting

• Opening paragraph

• Main paragraph 1

• Main paragraph 2

  Main paragraph 3

Match

Match the following email parts with their purpose.

• The headline of the email

• Wish the other person well and ask for a reply.

• End with a friendly goodbye.

Subject

Closing paragraph

Sign-off

• Subject

• Closing paragraph

• Sign-off

Categorize

Options (20)

Hi Diane,

Dear Maria,

Hello Ali,

I hope you're doing well

I’m sorry to hear about...

It's great to hear from you!

How have you been?

Thanks for writing to me!

I hope to hear from you soon

Let me know what you think.

Looking forward to your reply

Can't wait to hear from you!

Let’s stay in touch!

Wishing you a great week ahead!

Take care,

Best wishes,

Best regards,

See you soon,

Kind regards,

Thanks!

Organize these email lines into their categories.

Greetings

Opening lines

Closing lines

Sign-offs

​Ali 

Hello Ali how are you? I want to ask you about the next holiday because we haven’t see each other’s for a long time. Can you come to Bahrain this week? I really hope so!

That will be great so we can go to the national celebration and go to the fustival to eat dinner .

After that we can go out with my car and go to dessert and sit so we can watch the animals.

Nasser 

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• Do you have all the e-mail parts? (subject, greeting, opening paragraph, main paragraphs, closing paragraph, sign-off)

• Do you have different paragraphs?

• Does each paragraph have at least 3 sentences?

• Did you use different punctuation marks? ? ! , . -

• Did you use capital letters?

• Did you use linking words? also, and, but, because, however, even if, if, so,...

• Are you being polite in your email?

• Is your email informal?

• Did you start your sentences differently?