WorksheetsInformal Letter Success
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Should you start your informal letter
With lots of facts
With a chatty and friendly start
With direct speech
By eating a cucumber.
If you are creative and add your own details that are interesting this means that
You lose marks because you did not stick with the facts given.
The examiner will smile more and add smiling marks.
You usually get more marks because it engages the examiner.
You have gone off the topic
Which is the best group of words to describe the tone you usually work to create when writing an informal or formal letter?
Tactful, courteous, respectful and considerate
Considerate, courteous, tactful and boring.
Respectful, gentle, peaceful and objectional
Rude, angry, impatient and annoying.
Use linking words, such as 'firstly, finally and Subsequently' with most paragraphs in your informal letter because
The examiner counts the linking words and gives one mark for each linking word used up to a maximum of four.
Using linking words it is easier to use direct speech in your letter.
Because long words always impress the examiner
It makes it smoother to read and the letter flows better.
I make sure I elaborate and reach the minimum number of words requested and always check the number of words because...
Short answers lose marks.
Long answers always get more marks.
It takes longer for the examiner to mark it and so you impress him or her, getting more marks.
This is because the examiner gets annoyed when there are too few words.
The purpose of the concluding paragraph of an informal letter is to
Get the letter finished.
To show respect to the reader and make them feel good and convinced by most of what you have been sharing.
Is to hurry the reader into doing something you want them to do.
To shock the reader into failing you.
What is the best advice below on the bullet points listed in the instructions, things to be covered?
Ignore them.
Just give them a cursory, casual glance, and concentrate on your own ideas of what to include in the informal letter because you want to stand out as being different.
Just choose the most interesting one and deal with that, that will be sufficient for maximum marks.
Elaborate and deal thoroughly with all bullet points or things you are asked to include.
Finish an informal letter with only one of the following. Which is the correct one?
Yours sincerely
Yours faithfully
No closing greeting
Best wishes or See you soon
Always do the following to keep the examiner grading you higher...
Add a wrapped biscuit for the examiner to eat while marking
Write legibly and lay out your letter smartly
Staple a $10 note to the examination script.
Write a personal note on the answer script begging the examiner to give you higher marks claiming you are poor and need a scholarship
Which is best to do if your informal letter is written to convince a friend to do something:
Give one reason why your friend should do it in your letter..
Give two reasons why your friend should do it in your letter.
Give no reasons because your friend will do what you say anyway.
Give three different reasons why your friend should do it in your letter.
