English 8 unit 9 write

Suggested letter Dear Lan, Thank you very much for a teddy bear you sent me on my birthday.. It was very nice, lovely and I really liked it.[r]

Teacher: Phan Thi Mai Huong

Loc Thanh Secondary School

* What is this?

* Do you often write to

someone?

CHATTING

* On what occasion ?

Loc Thanh, January 10 th , 2013

Dear Lan,

Thank you very much for a teddy bear

you sent me on my birthday It was

very nice, lovely and I really liked it.

I have just finished my final exam, so I

am free now I think it might be nice to

go on a picnic for the weekends Will

you go with me? We will go to Ninh

Kieu Park on Sunday afternoon I

hope you’ll join me.

I will telephone you on Thursday.

Your friend

Ngan

•How many

part are there

in the letter ? What are they

?

The format of the letter

4.Closing 3.Body of the letter

2 Opening

1.Heading

Friday, January 18th 2013

Unit 9: Lesson 5 – Write

- (to) cheer sb up :

- (to) come over :

Ex : Will you come over to my house ?

Visit Make someone happy

Last week Where was Nga?

Who visited her?

What did Hoa give Nga?

Nga

Hoa

Where is she now?

Now

Dear Hoa, Thank you very much for the flowers you sent (send)

me while I (1) (be) in the hospital They were (2) (be) beautiful and they really (3) (help) to cheer me up I (4) (come) out of the hospital on Monday morning.

Now I (5) (be) very bored Will you come over to my place on the weekend? I’d love to see you

I (6) (phone) you on Friday afternoon.

Your friend, Nga

Body of

the

letter

Closin

g

Opening

was were helped

came

am

will phone

Dear Hoa,

Thank you very much for the

flowers you sent me while I

was in the hospital They

were beautiful and they

really helped to cheer me up

I came out of the hospital on

Monday morning.

Now I am very bored Will

you come over to my place

on the weekend? I’d love to

see you

I’ll phone you on Friday

1 What did Hoa send Nga?

2 When?

3 What were the flowers like?

4 How did Nga feel when she received them?

5 How does Nga feel now?

6 Does she want to invite Hoa somewhere? When ?

II/ The content of a thank- you note

-Thank you for what ? (flowers / a book / a picture/…….)

-On what occasion? ( in the hospital / at home/ on my birthday/

at the Christmas/ ) -Describe the presents: ( beautiful / nice / lovely/ useful /

interesting….) -Your feelings when you received the presents:

( helped to cheer me up, I liked it / them, I felt happy, I felt better ) -Your feeling now : ( bored/ unhappy/ sad/ free… )

(your house/ go camping/ go on a picnic… )

-Invite her/ him/ them…………to a place

( phone/ send a message…… ) -How to contact:

III/ Write

Arrange to contact your friend.Use the following question to guide your writing

1 What did your friend give / send you ?

2 On what occasion ?

3 What was/were it / they like ?

4 How did you feel when you received the present ?

5 How do you feel now ?

6 Do you want to invite your friend somewhere ?

7 If, then when ?

* a book/ a pen/ a teddy bear/ a dog toy/ a comic…

* On your birthday/ on Christmas/ on New year…

* beautiful/ lovely/ nice/ wonderful/ interesting/ good…

* happy/ glad/ joyful…

* bored / sad / …

* go on a picnic.

* On Saturday/ on Sunday/ for the weekends….

* phone/sent message

Dear Lan,

Thank you very much for a teddy bear you sent me

on my birthday It was very nice, lovely and I really liked it.

I have just finished my final exam, so I am free now

I think it might be nice to go on a picnic for the weekends Will you go with me? We will go to Dambri waterfall on Sunday afternoon I hope you’ll join me.

I will telephone you on Thursday.

Suggested letter

1 Write a letter (use the same format to write another letter to another friend for other

occasions.)

2 Prepare: Unit 9:Lesson 6: Language focus (revision: in order to/ so as to, future simple, requests, offers and promises Prepare

exercises: 2,3,4 on page 86 - 88 )