Asking for advice (letter)

Letter writing: giving/asking for advice & letters of complaint from Nanci Pensado

Click here to see an example of a letter asking for advice from a friend. 

Informal Letters and Emails

1. Click here to learn about different types, tenses, vocabularies and some tips.

2. Click here to learn about the format.

3. More information about informal letters.

4. A model.

PUNCTUATION

Click here to see more about the semicolon.

Click here to see linking words.

Travel Writing Scholarship

Do you dream of hitting the open road and writing about your adventures? Click here to learn how.

Linking words and the environment

Click here to do some exercises with linking words.

EXAMS

Exams 2014 (June and September)

Contrast: in spite of and despite

Click here to see a lesson about the use of 'in spite of' and 'despite'.

We went swimming in spite of / despite the strong currents.

Contrast: although and even though

Click here to see a lesson on the use of 'although' and 'even though'.

Although it was expensive, we ordered the best wine.

We went out, even though it was raining hard.

Informal Letter / E-mail

Click here to see the key to the photocopy I gave you in class.

*Remember that for homework you have to write an email to a friend giving him/her your news (150-180 words).

Formal letters

Have a look at this website, where you will find instructions on how to write formal letters (layout, paragraphs...).

How to write...

If you need some help with the writing skill, why don’t you have a look at this website?
It has been designed for university students, but you can get information on how to use linking words (with an exercise), how to write paragraphs or how to use punctuation. You also have information on how to write essays, reports, formal letters and some samples of them.

DRABBLE COMPETITION

A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.

Have a look at the rules for the school competition here and get ready to write.

Writing formal letters in English:
- Have a look at this website to see some instructions to write formal letters in English and some sample letters.
- Look at an example of business letters format.

Letters of complaint:
- This page describes the content, language and organisation of letters of complaint. There are also example letters and an exercise. There is a different page on how to reply to complaint letters.

How to write a book review

How to write a short book review

How to write a film review

1. Read some tips on how to write a film review.

2. Have a look at this website and try the different tasks:

The aims of these tasks are to help you to write a short movie review. The tasks use specially written reviews of recent movies which will help you to expand your vocabulary and recognize the form of a standard movie review. These tasks should be seen as the first steps you take before writing your own movie review.