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Unit 7: Reading and Writing Emails

The document provides instructions for an activity on reading and writing emails. It includes objectives to identify the different parts of an email like the greeting, subject line, signature, attachments, and closing. It also provides examples of formal and informal emails with instructions to identify the parts. The examples demonstrate different ways of writing the greeting, reason for writing, pleasantries, attachments, and closing depending on whether the email is formal or informal. The document then instructs students to write their own emails in different contexts to practice composing formal and informal emails.

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Unit 7: Reading and Writing Emails

The document provides instructions for an activity on reading and writing emails. It includes objectives to identify the different parts of an email like the greeting, subject line, signature, attachments, and closing. It also provides examples of formal and informal emails with instructions to identify the parts. The examples demonstrate different ways of writing the greeting, reason for writing, pleasantries, attachments, and closing depending on whether the email is formal or informal. The document then instructs students to write their own emails in different contexts to practice composing formal and informal emails.

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Unit 7: Reading and writing Emails

Objectives:

 Identify parts of an email


 Reading /Writing emails
Read this email and identify the parts of an email

Activity 1
Go to www.wordreference.com and find the meaning of these words

1- Greeting saludos
2- Subject line motivo
3- Signature firma
4- Attachment adjunto
5- Closing saludo de termino o clausura

Activity 2 Read the mails and choose

Formal ____

Informal____
Mail1

Hello Erica,
I hope you are fine. This mail is to invite you to a special party this Friday at 8 p.m. in my house. I´m going to
celebrate my birthday with my best friends and family.Please, bring something to drink.
Confirm ASAP ( as soon as possible) so that I can estimate how many people will be here.
Best regards,
Tito mail informal

Mail 2

From:

To:

Dear Jamie,

This e-mail is to get in touch again. Thanks for your e-mail. The next Project group meeting is
scheduled for 12.30 a.m. Tuesday 2 June. Please let me know if there is a problem with that date and
I will change it. It is important that you can attend. I´ve attached the final report that we will discuss in
the meeting.

Hoping to hear from you soon.


Regards

Jamie Brichet
R&D Manager
Formal mail
Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Delete

From: Samir
To: Sales Team
CC: Hatem Trabelsi; Patricia Bartlett
Subject: RE: Meeting next week
Attachments: New proposal.rtf (376KB)

Hello Sales Team,

I’ve got an idea for next week – see the attached file. I’d like to hear what you think about my
suggestion.
I think Hatem and Patricia may be interested, so I’ve copied them in too. Let’s talk more at the
meeting next week.

Regards, Samir

Informal mail

Read mail 2 and Identify the expression used for:

Greeting: Hello Erica, Dear Jamie Hello Sales


Team

Reason for writing: Invite Erica to get in touch To know the


again teams opinion
about the
proposal

Pleasantries: I hope you are No No


fine

Attachments: NO Yes Yes

Call to action: bring something Please let me To check, to


to drink know if there is read the file
a problem with and then give
that date
opinion

Regards Regards
Closing: Best regards
Reason for I am writing to …. I just wanted to ask you, I just wanted
writing your opinion on something
Pleasantries How are you? Hope you and I hope all is well. It's good to hear from
your family are doing well you ,How are things?

Attachments I’ve attached… I’ve attached…


I'm attaching ... I'm attaching ...

Your Turn

1.Write an email to a new facebook friend. Tell him/her who you are, what you do , where
you work and what you like. Describe yourself

To: [email protected]
From [email protected]
Subject line: presentation
Dear Eduardo:
My name is Carlos Labra, I am 36 years old and I am from Chillán, I work in a
company called KyC Industrial Ltda, I work in many hospitals in southern Chile, I
really like traveling to the mountains and fishing.
Best regard
Carlos Labra
2.Write an informal email to your friend to tell him/her about your last summer

Hi Eduardo:
Hi Eduardo:
Last summer I went on vacation to Icalma, it is a good place to rest. We went hiking in the mountains and
fishing in the lake, we really liked the landscape, there were many trees and rivers. I hope we can go
sometime.
See you soon
Carlos Labra

3. Write a Formal email to your English teacher and tell her about your future plans (after you
graduate from UBB)

Dear MRS Aguayo:


When I finish studying I plan to leave vacations to a distant place for a long time and then continue working
and applying what I have learned in these years of study.
Your sincerely
Carlos Labra

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