Writing an Informal Letter What are the differences
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Writing an Informal Letter
What are the differences between a formal letter and an informal letter?
What are the differences between a formal letter and an informal letter? How well do you think the people know each other? Tone? Formality?
Differences between a formal letter and an informal letter • A formal letter has 2 addresses. An informal letter only has your address in the top right corner. • A formal letter would start “Dear Sir/Madam”. An informal letter would start “Hi”, “Hello”, or some other informal greeting. • An informal letter might start with a paragraph of “small-talk”, asking how the other person is, what they have been up to recently or if they enjoyed their holiday. • An informal letter has a more “chatty” and conversational tone, but there should be no slang or swearing. • A formal letter is signed off “Yours sincerely” or “Yours faithfully”. An informal letter can be signed less formally like “from”, “love from”, “see you soon”, or “best wishes”. • You can just sign off with your first name on an informal letter. You would need your full name/signature in a formal letter.
Your Task: Write an informal letter to Stanley Yelnats’s mum, in character. , Dear Mum
Planning You must prepare a plan before you begin writing. 3. If youhas are going lie, your is toto try and 1. Decide What Stanley been up write tochallenge since left home? 2. if you areto going to thehe truth include things he has done buther make Write down the he’s done, he was Stanley’s mum, orthings are actually you going towhat tell liesthem so she sound feelinggood. at the time, what he may have seen/heard doesn’t worry? etc.
Now it’s time to write your own informal letter! Pupil Letter Writing Objective Teacher I wrote my address on the right-hand side and put the date I wrote Dear. . . followed by a comma In the first paragraph I made “small talk” asking how she was etc. I used paragraphs for different parts of my experience so far. In the last paragraph I wrote a closing statement asking for a reply I ended using ‘an informal phrase I was polite I used some short sentences and some long sentences using various conjunctions, and order. I used the first person (‘I’, ‘my’ ‘me’)
