Grade 10 - Informal Letter

You need to refer to the question paper your teacher gave you.(SPM Trial Exam-Terengganu)

Your cousin has just received an offer to go to a boarding school. He/She is not sure whether to accept that offer or not. You have decided to write a letter to him/her to explain about the advantages and disadvantages of studying in a boarding school and a daily school.

What are the first important key words from the question?

• Your cousin got an offer from his/her daily school.

• Your cousin's mother asked you to go to boarding school.

• Your cousin got an offer to go to a boarding school.

Your cousin has just received an offer to go to a boarding school. He/She is not sure whether to accept that offer or not. You have decided to write a letter to him/her to explain about the advantages and disadvantages of studying in a boarding school and a daily school.

What are the second important key words from the question?

• He/She is not sure to go to the boarding school.

• He/She loves his/her new school.

• He/She offer you to go to a boarding school.

Your cousin has just received an offer to go to a boarding school. He/She is not sure whether to accept that offer or not. You have decided to write a letter to him/her to explain about the advantages and disadvantages of studying in a boarding school and a daily school.

What kind of letter you should write?

• Formal letter.

• E-mail.

• Informal letter

What are the format for an informal letter?

• Address

• Title

• Date

• Salutation

• Closing

Which are the correct ways to write your salutation?

• Grandma!

• Dear Misha,

• My dear Lucas,

• Dearest Ana,

• Yours sincerely,

Thank you for the recent letter your sent me. I am glad to _______ that you got an offer to go to a boarding school. For me it's a _______ news!

• listen, good

• hear, bad

• hear, great

There are a lot of __________ you'll get if you go to a boarding school. The first and foremost is you'll be more _________.

• benefits, alone

• advantages, independent

• advantage, independence

Besides, when you go to a boarding school, you'll instill competitiveness among the ______ there. You'll learn that to gain something you must really work hard on that. Last but not least, you'll be self-__________.

• teenagers, fish

• students, discipline

• people, esteem

If you want to stay at the daily school, I think there's no problem too. The advantages that you will continuously get is you will be _________ to your family as I know you are the apple of your mum's eyes.

• far away

• happy

• close

However, you have to be aware when you are at a boarding school. I bet you'll be ________ in not more than a week you are there.

• homework

• homesick

• homewrecker