writing an e-mail about plans

Task 1: 
Writing about your Holiday Plans Ready for summer holiday?

1.  What are your plans for the summer?
2.  Are you going to the beach? 
3. Are you travelling abroad?  

Answer the following questions:

•  Where are you going?
•  Who are you going with?
•  When are you going? 
•  Where are you going to stay? 
•  How long are you going to stay there? 
•  What are you going to do? 
•  What are you going to pack?

 Now let's put write about all these holiday plans! This is going to be our last letter to our pen pals.
 We are going to tell them about our summer plans.

Write your email taking into account the following tips:

 Organize your ideas into paragraphs:

•  Formula to star a letter, introduction, our plans, formula to close a letter.  

   

GREETINGS

 Dear Sally Hi/Hello Sally NOT: Dear brother Dear friend Dear cousin 

INTRODUCTION/ OPENING PARAGRAPH

• How are you (keeping)?
•  It was nice to hear from you. 
• Thank you/Thanks for your email.
•  It’s taken me ages to reply, but…
•  I’ve been meaning to get back to you, but… 
• Just thought I’d drop you a line. 
• Sorry I haven’t written for ages, but I’ve been really busy. 
• It’s ages since I heard from you.

MAIN PART (2-3 PARAGRAPHS) Invitations • Accepting • Refusing Thank you Congratulations Giving news Requests Apologies

•   I was wondering if you’d like to… 
•  Thank you very much for the invitation. I’d love to come. 
•  Thank you for inviting me to… but I’m afraid I can’t make it.
•  Congratulations on passing your exams. 
•  I’m writing to tell you about… 
•  Could you do something for me?
•  I’m writing to apologise for…/ I’m really sorry about… 

CONCLUSION/ CLOSING PARAGRAPH

• Well, that’s all for now. 
• Well, I’d better finish off here. 
• I must go now. 
• Keep in touch 
• Well, that’s all my news. 
• Write back soon, telling me what you’ve been up to. 
• Looking forward to hearing from you 
• Looking forward to seeing you.
• Give my love/regards to ....
• Say hello to ....
• Hope to hear from you soon.
• see you soon
• Write soon
• Once again, thank you for all your help.

ENDINGS Love Best wishes/regards (to) 

• Yours
•  Take care
•  Bye for now
•  All the best
•  See you soon 
• Love
• Lots of love
• all the best
• best wishes

•  Use adjectives to describe and make your text nicer.
•  Use connectors to make your text fluent and easy to read.
•  Use adverbs to add fluency to your text. 
• Don't forget the date!! 

   

 Read and use the following text as a model to write your letter:



MY HOLIDAY PLANS
                                                                                                        Tomares, 24th May, 2014


 Dear Olga,

 Thank you for your last email. I loved to learn about your city. In this letter I'm going to tell you about my holiday plans.

 I'm really excited about my summer plans because my parents are taking me to New York!! We are leaving on 12th July and we have great plans. First, we are going to visit the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. I don't like museums in general, but this is really special. We are also going to go sightseeing and we are going to visit the statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Then we are going to the Great Lakes to do some scuba diving. Finally, we are going to Niagara Falls. That's an enormous waterfall. Part of it is in the USA and part of it is in Canada. It's amazing!

 I'm going to need a big suitcase because I need to pack my summer clothes, shorts and T-shirts mainly, but I will also need my swimsuit, my flip flops, and some jumpers or cardigans because it might be cooler at night and by the Niagara Falls! When we come back from New York, I'm going to go to the beach with my family. We usually go to Matalascañas. I have lots of friends there so it'll be a lot of fun!! I can't wait for the summer!! What are you planning to do?
 I hope next year we can keep in touch. Have a nice summer vacation!!!


 Kind regards, Isabel