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

Closing paragraphs

Sign-off

Main Paragraph 2

Opening paragraph

Main Paragraph 1

Greeting

Main Paragraph 3

Subject

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?