WRITING INFORMAL EMAILS

Read this page before writing your email and make sure you follow the advice given.

Informal emails

Use this CHECKLIST to review your email. You will get extra points if you include all the following:

•  Organise your email into 4 different paragraphs.
  
• Use formulaic expressions to start and finish your email.
  
• Use informal words and expressions and a chatty style.
• Respond to all the questions in the email
  
• Use a variety of structures and verb tenses
• Use connectors to link ideas: and, because, therefore, however,..
  
• Check spelling and punctuation
• Use some of the vocabulary on unit 1
  

This is your TASK:

You have received this email from an English-speaking boy called Simon.

Hello,
I would like to get to know someone from your country and a friend has told me that you would like to practise your English. Perhaps we could email each other. Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your family? Could you suggest how we might meet sometime in the future?
Thanks,
Simon

Write your email in 140-190 words in an appropriate style.