WEBVTT 00:01.350 --> 00:02.030 OK everybody. 00:02.020 --> 00:10.350 So let's move into our third example which is an informal letter right now what I want you to really 00:10.350 --> 00:18.180 notice here is the difference in the tone and difference in terms of the language you're going to see 00:18.180 --> 00:22.510 a lot of collocation is a lot of contraction. 00:22.830 --> 00:32.690 This shows that I have an understanding of how an informal letter should be constructed in a word and 00:32.700 --> 00:34.230 present it. 00:34.800 --> 00:38.400 That's what a lot of you are not doing properly when you're writing. 00:38.670 --> 00:45.640 You have to present the proper tone present the proper message. 00:45.720 --> 00:46.530 Right. 00:46.560 --> 00:52.350 So pay attention to that and you'll see some things underlined in the letter that kind of will point 00:52.350 --> 00:54.140 that out for you. 00:54.150 --> 00:54.530 Right. 00:54.540 --> 00:55.530 OK. 00:55.560 --> 01:01.860 So one of your one of your friends recently had a birthday celebration but she missed it and you forgot 01:01.860 --> 01:04.440 to tell your friend that she couldn't attend. 01:04.500 --> 01:10.650 Write a letter to your friend in your letter apologize for missing the birthday celebration. 01:10.650 --> 01:16.560 Explain why you missed it and why you didn't tell your friend and say what she would like to do to show 01:16.560 --> 01:19.300 that you are sorry. 01:19.350 --> 01:24.000 Of course we start with a outline right. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.440 Make a plan. 01:25.500 --> 01:28.020 Reminder to myself that is informal. 01:28.050 --> 01:28.840 Part 1. 01:28.840 --> 01:29.980 Sorry didn't. 01:29.990 --> 01:32.010 Not till you feel bad. 01:32.100 --> 01:33.910 In part 1. 01:34.230 --> 01:40.230 That's where you only talk about your sorry you don't explain why you missed it. 01:40.350 --> 01:46.080 You don't talk about what you're going to do to make it up to him in part number one you only explain 01:46.080 --> 01:53.120 why you're sorry that you are sorry not why that you are sorry. 01:53.130 --> 02:01.140 I've seen people do this example before and in their opening introduction sentence they will say something 02:01.140 --> 02:03.320 like they'll explain why they're sorry. 02:03.420 --> 02:09.480 No that doesn't go in your introduction sentence right so you'll take a look you'll see what I'm talking 02:09.480 --> 02:10.550 about below. 02:14.380 --> 02:24.390 So if you look here are my dearest friend Mark dearest friend Mark I have a comma there. 02:24.520 --> 02:26.090 Look I'm opening sentence. 02:26.230 --> 02:33.780 I heard through the grapevine that your birthday was out of this world a year older a year better right. 02:33.970 --> 02:36.340 Look at the informal tone of the language. 02:36.340 --> 02:44.640 Look at the use of exclamation marks right exclamation mark exclamation mark right. 02:44.740 --> 02:49.670 Colloquial language I heard through the grapevine. 02:49.820 --> 02:52.620 That's very informal language. 02:56.630 --> 03:06.290 So anyway I'm feeling a bit down and want to express from the depths of my heart how sorry I am how 03:06.290 --> 03:11.460 sorry I am to have missed your borne day and created lifetime memories together. 03:11.720 --> 03:17.070 Look at the look of the colloquial language feeling a big Dow depths of my heart. 03:17.220 --> 03:21.480 Informal tone informal tone everybody. 03:21.560 --> 03:26.660 I should have told you that I would make it because our friendship deserves that notification. 03:26.660 --> 03:31.240 I've been down in the dumps about my celebration absence and beg your forgiveness. 03:31.550 --> 03:35.710 If you notice all I'm doing there is talking about. 03:35.780 --> 03:37.130 I'm sorry. 03:37.130 --> 03:43.230 Three sentences three different ways of saying I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Mark. 03:43.250 --> 03:46.050 That's all I'm saying in that part. 03:46.070 --> 03:50.120 Now we're going to move on to what happened part number two. 03:50.120 --> 03:52.810 Why did it happen. 03:52.850 --> 03:54.410 I guess I should explain what happened. 03:54.410 --> 03:55.520 Look at that language. 03:55.550 --> 03:57.110 I guess I should explain what happened. 03:57.110 --> 03:59.150 That's informal. 03:59.150 --> 04:04.790 You see my boss walked in at the last minute and demanded that I complete a full report that was supposed 04:04.790 --> 04:06.100 to be due next week. 04:06.380 --> 04:13.160 After getting started I had still expected to finish one time for the party but I notice updated instructions 04:13.160 --> 04:15.830 it took me well past midnight to complete. 04:16.160 --> 04:21.200 When I finally took my head out the sand I couldn't believe your birthday party was almost over the 04:21.200 --> 04:24.800 language and the tone. 04:24.860 --> 04:29.490 Finally what am I going to do part number three. 04:29.510 --> 04:33.410 Say what you would like to do to show your sorry. 04:34.080 --> 04:41.280 However the party's not over exclamation mark to heal any open wounds from my absence. 04:41.280 --> 04:46.050 I want to take you out for dinner at champs restaurant which is your absolute favorite because it's 04:46.050 --> 04:48.680 beer and bolding that are those contractions. 04:48.720 --> 04:51.870 It's Couldn't wooden. 04:52.440 --> 04:52.830 Right. 04:52.920 --> 04:54.300 I am. 04:54.900 --> 04:58.680 All these different contractions that you have there right. 04:58.710 --> 05:06.990 That's what goes into a informal letter after having a blast at champs list here to the theater and 05:06.990 --> 05:10.900 check out their new Jackie Chan movie see speak to you soon. 05:10.920 --> 05:15.340 My man Big Mike right tone. 05:15.390 --> 05:17.190 You see the change in tone. 05:17.700 --> 05:18.000 Right. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.450 The change in tone. 05:19.740 --> 05:21.100 That's what we're looking at. 05:21.510 --> 05:23.120 OK the change in tone. 05:23.520 --> 05:29.320 I'll give you a chance to look at this in a in the in the longer format. 05:29.340 --> 05:33.510 For some you don't want to look at it this way and look at it all together. 05:34.050 --> 05:36.050 Right. 05:36.300 --> 05:42.080 And if you just want to read it this way just stop the screen and freeze it so you can read some more. 05:42.090 --> 05:42.750 Right. 05:42.960 --> 05:49.030 But that's what a good informal letter looks like everybody. 05:49.350 --> 05:51.570 That's what a good informal letter looks like. 05:51.600 --> 05:53.840 That's what I want you to be able to do. 05:53.850 --> 05:55.290 That's my hope for you. 05:55.680 --> 06:00.720 And I want you to apply this strategy the way I'm applying this strategy so that you can do a great 06:00.720 --> 06:02.450 job. 06:02.460 --> 06:05.250 I want all of you to get high scores right. 06:05.710 --> 06:08.440 And you just have to apply it the right way. 06:08.670 --> 06:11.630 Now you have to have the English ability. 06:12.180 --> 06:12.840 OK. 06:13.050 --> 06:20.370 It doesn't matter if I tell you to do five parts and I'll tell you how you know the strategy and the 06:20.370 --> 06:21.360 tactics. 06:21.690 --> 06:27.170 If you don't have the English ability to write complex sentences and correlative in compound sentences 06:27.170 --> 06:34.740 in conditional sentences and use you know adverbs and adjectives and proper parallelism and all those 06:34.740 --> 06:40.550 other things if you don't have the English ability to do it it doesn't matter if you're doing the strategies 06:40.550 --> 06:44.470 right and tactics right you're going to hurt your score OK. 06:44.770 --> 06:46.270 It's an English ability test. 06:46.290 --> 06:53.190 You have to have a marriage you have to have yet to have a marriage of your English ability with the 06:53.190 --> 06:55.310 strategies and tactics that I'm teaching you. 06:55.560 --> 06:56.220 OK. 06:56.430 --> 07:04.270 So let's move on to a few more examples in this section number two and then section number three. 07:04.320 --> 07:13.310 I'm going to actually write to write some examples life to kind of give you an idea of what to do.