Formal and informal email

 If your email must be formal( send an email to your English teacher), you must
use formal expressions

 If your email must be informal(send an email to your friend, Tom), you must use
informal expressions

Structure

Emails can have got the following structure:

 To= the person who receives the email

 From= the person who sends the email

 Date=the date when the email in sent

 Subject= the main topic or reason of the email

Helping sentences

Formal Email helping sentences:

 Dear Mr Brown/Mrs Smith/Ms Carter (when name is known)

 Dear Sir/Madam (when name is not known)

 I send this email because...

 This email is due to...

 I send you this email due to the following reason...

 Could you say me what content there is in our next exam, please?

 Would you say me what is the price of the gym, please?

 Could you help me with this homework, please?

 I would be grateful that you answer me as soon as possible

 I am looking forward to hearing about you

 I look forward to hearing from you

 Yours faithfully (If you do not know the name of the person, end the letter this
 way)

 Yours sincerely (If you know the name of the person, end the letter this way)

+ Signature (name and surname)

Informal email helping sentences:

 Hello Anne

 Hi!!

 Dear friend

 Dear Peter( Dear+ Name)

 Please, can you send me the topic number 5 of grammar?

 Say me what is the content of our next English exam, please

 Write me soon

 Answer me as soon as possible, please

 Write soon

 Sorry, I haven´t written for ages but I has been very busy

 bye bye

 love

+ Signature (name)

EXTENDED WRITING (INFORMAL EMAIL)

It is your cousin’s 18th birthday soon. Your friend Maria has asked you what you are
planning to wear. Write an email to Maria explaining how your cousin is going to
celebrate her birthday and what you are planning to wear (100-130 words)

Structure:

To:

From:

Date:
Subject:

1. Introduction:

Choose one:

 Hello Maria

 Hi!!

 Dear friend

 Dear Maria ( Dear + Name)

Choose one:

 How are you?

 Are you fine?
 How’s it going?

Introduce your email:

 As I have mentioned on my last email, my cousin is going to celebrate his

birthday next Sunday. He has organized a big party in his house. Firstly, he’s
going to prepare a big dinner with fast food and junk food. Then, we will watch
a film on this projector. Finally, he has planned to go to the local pub and drink
some cokes.
 As you know, my cousin has invited us to go to his birthday party. He has
phoned me because he wants to celebrate his birthday at the cinema, but he
doesn’t know if it will be very expensive. Besides this, he has planned to have
dinner in a restaurant and then go to a pub, do you like the idea?

2. Introduce what you’re planning to wear:

 In addition, I would like to wear casual clothes, because I can combine trousers
with a jacket and high heels. In my opinion, it’s a very comfortable outfit which
you can wear for different special occasions. However, I’m not sure if I will
wear very informal clothes, so maybe a smart dress could be another good
option, what would you recommend me?
 Moreover, I’m going to wear smart clothes because when we go to the pub it’s
better to dress up formal clothes if we want to enter due to the fact that
sometimes doormen only allow to enter to pubs people wearing very formal
 clothes.
 Firstly, secondly,
 On the one hand/on the other hand,
 Because of this…
 Due to…
 The main reason for this…
 Linkers:
 Moreover,
 In addition,
 Besides this,
 However,
 Although,
 Whereas,
 Despite/In spite of + ing verb/noun

3. Closing:

 Write me soon

 Answer me as soon as possible, please

 Write soon

 Bye bye,

 Love,

 Kisses,

 + your name

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