WRITING AN EMAIL

The first thing you need to know is the different parts of an email, and these are:

 Greetings: we greet the other person (i.e. say «hi» or «hello»).

 Opening paragraph: we react to the other person’s news and ask them how they are
feeling and whatever else you feel is appropriate.

 Main paragraph 1: in this paragraph we deal with the first important point, which we
can identify in the instructions.

 Main paragraph 2: if there is a different point to deal with, this paragraph will do so.
(We might have more main paragraphs, depending on the task.)

 Closing paragraph: in this paragraph we «start» to say goodbye by wishing the other
person well and asking them to reply to your email.

 Goodbye: we use a short expression to say goodbye.

 Signature: we sign the email with our name.

HOW TO WRITE IT…

I suggest some good expressions to begin and end your email in a friendly way.  

Nice openings:

 Hi,     Hi Marry,    Hi there!     Hello!

Closing an email:

 Take care,    Love,    Bye,     See  you soon ,  Best,  Lots of love   

Notice that there is a comma after each of the expressions. Don’t forget to write your name at
the end of an email. You don’t need to put a full stop after your name.

There are some ways to respond to an email in the first paragraph. If you want to be polite, say
“thank you”.  You might use following sentences:

 Thanks for your email. It’s good to hear from you.

 Thanks a lot for writing.

 It was nice to receive your email.

If your friend wrote you a positive email, you might answer:

 That’s amazing news!

 I’m so happy to hear that!

 Well done!

 How fantastic!
If you respond to bad news, you might write:

 I’m sorry to hear that

 I hope you will get better soon

 Is there anything I can do?

If you want to make a suggestion, use these phrases:

 If I were you, I would

 Make sure you…

 We could do …

 Why don’t we …?

 How about going to…?

 Don’t you think it’s a good idea?

Making a request:

 Would you mind …-ing?

 Can you…?

 Could you please…?

 Do you think you could…?

Agreeing or rejecting your friend’s suggestions:

 Yes, I’d love to

 What a great idea!

 Yes, I feel like doing that.

 Yes, I will do it with pleasure.

 Yes, that sounds like an interesting idea.

 Count me in too.

 I’m not sure about that idea.

 I don’t think it will work

 Well, I’m not very keen on doing something.

 I’d love to but I don’t have time.

Don’t forget that it’s very important to use linking words and phrases. 

 And, but, so, because, also, as well