Learning Tasks M1 LA1 Part 1 Task 1-4

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: Learning Tasks M1 LA1 Part 1: Getting to Know Personal Letters (Task 1-4)

 Nama

: Hilda Hosfia, S.Hum

Sekolah

: SMPN 32 Kab. Tebo

TASK 1- 4 Instructions TASK 1 Example1:

April 17th 2018 Dear Fatima, I hope this letter finds all of you in the best of health and spirits. All of us are also doing fine here. It has been a very long time since we met or wrote to each other. So I thought of penning down a few lines to check things with you. We just got back from our vacation to Malang and had a great time. We went to Bromo and Kota Batu. Amazing must see places. If you happen to ever plan a holiday to that side of the world do let me know and I shall give you tips on sight seeing, culinary, etc. I want to share something that is disturbing me these days.Mom has not been keeping good health and I am really worried for her. Sometimes I see bad dreams about mom and they wake me up in the middle of the night. I am sure you know what bad dreams I am talking about. Please don’t share this with anybody and and I know I can trust you on this. Anyways you say what is up with you and how is work? I can see that it is keeping you really  busy, as I haven’t heard from you at all. Give my love to your mom and dad and loads of love to you too. Stay in touch and do write! Take care Love, Aleena Adapted from: http://www.letters.org/friendship-letter/friendship-letter.html

Example 2:

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...

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Example 3:

Hello Alexa, I'm glad you're interested in my country. As your friend said, I'd like us to email each other to help me improve your your English. English. Let me start by telling you a bit about myself and my family. My name's Ivo and I live in Kutna Hora, which is about 45 minutes from Prague by car. I used to work for a medical company but now I'm learning to be a salesperson. In the future I want a job where I can travel for my work. I've already been to a few places in Europe but I've never been to an Englishspeaking country. I live at home with my parents, which is convenient, as I don't have to do much housework and my meals are cooked for me. My younger brother is studying at university. Although he is four years younger than me, we get on quite well. well. We both enjoy snowboarding and music. What about you? Have you ever been to the Czech Republic? It would be great if you could come over one Anyway, I must go and get on with my work! Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

 Best wishes,  Ivo

 Adapted from http://www.rubenvalero.com/english/content/fce-informal-letter-or-email  TASK 2

1. What personal relation do each sender of the letter to the addressees? Provide evidence from the letters in Task 1 2. What is the tone of each letter? Provide evidences from the letters in Task 1 .

Answer:

1. Based on the letter 1, the the sender and the addressee are old friends. It can be seen that Aleena as the sender of the letter said “It has been a very long very long time since we met or wrote to each other ”. So, they used to meet each other before. And their relationship is so closed, we can see from the letter that said “Please don’t share this with anybody and I know I can trust you on this” . this” . Letter 2 and 3 has the correlation, it can be implied that they, sender and the addressee, have never met each other before. Letter 2 told that the sender sent this letter to his

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that they have never met each other is that the sender of Letter 2 asks the addressee to introduce himself and the addressee replied it in Letter 3. 2. The tone of the letter is informal but the letter 1 is friendlier than the other letter. It can  be seen from the word choice c hoice of the letters. l etters. We can see from the uses of some words like ‘dear’, ‘take care’ and ‘love’.The letter 2 and 3 use the word ‘hello’ for the opening and in the closing closing of the letter 3, the sender said “Anyway, I must go and get on with my work! “ it tells us that t hat the style of the language is informal.

TASK 3

Fill in the table by referring to the previous letter in task 1 In this task, you are going to analyse the letter structure by the senders and receivers. Fill in the table by referring to the previous letter in task 1. L1

L2

L3

Date of writing

April 17, 2018

It’s not written

It’s not written

Sender

Aleena

Alexa

Ivo

Dear

Hello

Hello

(Informal/Friendly)

(Informal/Friendly)

(Informal/Friendly)

Greetings form

The sender shares The sender wants to The sender replies a Main content

her bad experience start to an old friend.

with letter from a new

someone new.

The sender’s mother The Personal news

friendship

sender’s

friend. friend She

introduces

is sick and it disturbs told him to that the herself. her days.

addressee

wants

to

 practice English so the sender gives a good response to make a friend

with

the

addressee. Complementary

Love

Thanks

Best wishes

Fatima

Ivo

Alexa

close/Sign off Receiver

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TASK 4.

 Now, report the similarities and differences differences of the three letters by filling out the table below. Letter 1 

Letter 2

To exchange news



To

make

Letter 3

a



To

exchange

about the sender’s

relationship with a

information

Social

last vocation and

new friend.

new friend.

Function

her

to

a

mother’s

condition. 

Date



Salutation



Salutation



Introduction

name



Body



Introduction



Introduction



Complimentary



Body



Body

close



Closing (to indicate



Closing

and



and

name

(short

expression; thanks)

(to

Salutation

the letter is going

indicate the letter

to end; anyway I

is going to end;

must go and get on

Text

Give my love to

with my work!)

Structures

your mom and dad

Similarities





and loads of love

close

to you too)

expression;

Complimentary

wishes)

close

(short



expression; love) 

Complimentary (short best

Signature (name of the writer; Ivo)

Signature (name of the writer; Aleena)



Lexico-

present



tense

gram matical

Simple

Simple

present

tense 



Simple past tense to

Feature

tell

the

Simple

present

tense

past

experience 

To

exchange

information

to



To inform that the sender

wants

to



To reply the letter from a new friend.

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

Text Structures

There is a date



There is no date name of addressee, closure, signature

THANK YOU

nor



There is no date