Review Letter writing

What does a letter consist of?

• Heading

• Salutation (Greeting)

• Outline

• Main body

• Ending

How many styles of a letter are there?

Dear Mr. and Mrs Smith,

This belongs to the ...............

• heading

• ending

• greeting

• ending

There are formal letters, informal letters and .....................letters.

Semi-formal letters contain .................greetings and informal endings.

Informal language is the language of .......................conversations, of personal letters.

• public

• formal

• academic

• private

Formal language is the type of language used ................for some serious purposes, for example, in official reports, business letters.

• privately

• publicly

• closely

• informally

Tick the correct prepositional phrases

• put up with

• come across

• investigate

• think over

Tick the INFORMAL sentences.

• She looks for a friend who she can confide in.

• In what way can you do it?

• To whom is she talking to?

• What country was she born in?

Choose the TACTFUL language to complete the sentence.

My teacher's father has......................

• died

• passed away

• gone