OK everybody.
So let's move into our third example which is an informal letter right now what I want you to really
notice here is the difference in the tone and difference in terms of the language you're going to see
a lot of collocation is a lot of contraction.
This shows that I have an understanding of how an informal letter should be constructed in a word and
present it.
That's what a lot of you are not doing properly when you're writing.
You have to present the proper tone present the proper message.
Right.
So pay attention to that and you'll see some things underlined in the letter that kind of will point
that out for you.
Right.
OK.
So one of your one of your friends recently had a birthday celebration but she missed it and you forgot
to tell your friend that she couldn't attend.
Write a letter to your friend in your letter apologize for missing the birthday celebration.
Explain why you missed it and why you didn't tell your friend and say what she would like to do to show
that you are sorry.
Of course we start with a outline right.
Make a plan.
Reminder to myself that is informal.
Part 1.
Sorry didn't.
Not till you feel bad.
In part 1.
That's where you only talk about your sorry you don't explain why you missed it.
You don't talk about what you're going to do to make it up to him in part number one you only explain
why you're sorry that you are sorry not why that you are sorry.
I've seen people do this example before and in their opening introduction sentence they will say something
like they'll explain why they're sorry.
No that doesn't go in your introduction sentence right so you'll take a look you'll see what I'm talking
about below.
So if you look here are my dearest friend Mark dearest friend Mark I have a comma there.
Look I'm opening sentence.
I heard through the grapevine that your birthday was out of this world a year older a year better right.
Look at the informal tone of the language.
Look at the use of exclamation marks right exclamation mark exclamation mark right.
Colloquial language I heard through the grapevine.
That's very informal language.
So anyway I'm feeling a bit down and want to express from the depths of my heart how sorry I am how
sorry I am to have missed your borne day and created lifetime memories together.
Look at the look of the colloquial language feeling a big Dow depths of my heart.
Informal tone informal tone everybody.
I should have told you that I would make it because our friendship deserves that notification.
I've been down in the dumps about my celebration absence and beg your forgiveness.
If you notice all I'm doing there is talking about.
I'm sorry.
Three sentences three different ways of saying I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Mark.
That's all I'm saying in that part.
Now we're going to move on to what happened part number two.
Why did it happen.
I guess I should explain what happened.
Look at that language.
I guess I should explain what happened.
That's informal.
You see my boss walked in at the last minute and demanded that I complete a full report that was supposed
to be due next week.
After getting started I had still expected to finish one time for the party but I notice updated instructions
it took me well past midnight to complete.
When I finally took my head out the sand I couldn't believe your birthday party was almost over the
language and the tone.
Finally what am I going to do part number three.
Say what you would like to do to show your sorry.
However the party's not over exclamation mark to heal any open wounds from my absence.
I want to take you out for dinner at champs restaurant which is your absolute favorite because it's
beer and bolding that are those contractions.
It's Couldn't wooden.
Right.
I am.
All these different contractions that you have there right.
That's what goes into a informal letter after having a blast at champs list here to the theater and
check out their new Jackie Chan movie see speak to you soon.
My man Big Mike right tone.
You see the change in tone.
Right.
The change in tone.
That's what we're looking at.
OK the change in tone.
I'll give you a chance to look at this in a in the in the longer format.
For some you don't want to look at it this way and look at it all together.
Right.
And if you just want to read it this way just stop the screen and freeze it so you can read some more.
Right.
But that's what a good informal letter looks like everybody.
That's what a good informal letter looks like.
That's what I want you to be able to do.
That's my hope for you.
And I want you to apply this strategy the way I'm applying this strategy so that you can do a great
job.
I want all of you to get high scores right.
And you just have to apply it the right way.
Now you have to have the English ability.
OK.
It doesn't matter if I tell you to do five parts and I'll tell you how you know the strategy and the
tactics.
If you don't have the English ability to write complex sentences and correlative in compound sentences
in conditional sentences and use you know adverbs and adjectives and proper parallelism and all those
other things if you don't have the English ability to do it it doesn't matter if you're doing the strategies
right and tactics right you're going to hurt your score OK.
It's an English ability test.
You have to have a marriage you have to have yet to have a marriage of your English ability with the
strategies and tactics that I'm teaching you.
OK.
So let's move on to a few more examples in this section number two and then section number three.
I'm going to actually write to write some examples life to kind of give you an idea of what to do.