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M1U1 Life Choices
A Personal Email
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Are you still in contact with your junior secondary school classmates?
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You are going to write an email to one of your junior secondary school classmates about your new school life. Discuss the following questions with your partners and then report to the class about your partner’s answers .
1) Who are you going to write to?
2) What do you want to tell him / her?
3) What do you want to know from him / her?
Warming-Up
Reading for contents
Read the email. Answer the questions.
1) Who is Fang Lan? Why is Wang Ying writing to her?
2) How does her life in senior secondary school differs from junior secondary school?
3) Is the email formal or informal? Why is it written this way?
1) Who is Fang Lan?
Why is Wang Ying
writing to her?
An old friend.
To say Hello.
To ask about Fang Lan’s
new school life.
To share her new senior
secondary school life
with Fang Lang.
2) How does her life in
senior secondary school
differ from junior
secondary school?
It is much bigger.
They don’t have a fixed
classroom. They have
different classes and have
many different clubs after
class.
3) Is the email formal or informal? Why is it wkkkjritten this way?
Informal. It is written this way because they are friends.
Reading for structure
Label the elements on the left of the email. (Ex. 3)
a. ending and wishes
b. greeting
c. subject line
d. reason to finish writing
e. questions about the other person
f. information about one’s own life
g. signature
b. greeting
e. questions about the other person
f. Information about one’s own life
d. reason(s) to finish writing
a. ending and wishes
g. signature
b
e
f
d
a
g
Dear Fang Lan
How’s your life in Canada? I hope you have adapted well to the new situation and are enjoying your new school.
I love my new senior secondary school. It’s much bigger than my junior secondary school and there’s a