Cheatsheet informal letter

Informal letter expresion

A. You must use:

• Contraction (It isn’t funny at all.)
• Short sentences (I’m really busy)
• Common expresion (How are you doing?)
• Phrasal verbs (Are you coming over?)
• Linkers (como as, but, so…)
• Exclamations (Good luck!)

B. Structure

• Three parts:
  • I. Opening
  • II. Body
  • III.Closing

I. Opening

The reason why we write our letter.

1) Greeting

- Dear/Hi [first name]

2) Opening Expressions:

- How are you?
- Thanks for your letter
- What’s new?
- I was glad to hear from you.
- Hope you are well.
- Sorry for not writing earlier
- How have you been?
- It was so nice to hear from you.
- I hope you are doing fine.
- It was great to hear from you
- How’s everything going?
- Do you remember the last time we saw each other?

3) Talking about the reason we are writing:

- I am writing because …
- Good luck with …
- The reason I am writing is because …
- Sorry to hear about…
- I wanted to …
- I hope you feel better soon
- I would like to …
- I am glad that things are going well with you these days.

II. Body

1) Asking about something

- Hi! how are things?
- How are you?
- How's it going?
- How's life?

2) Refering to their news

- Great news about..
- I'm glad to hear that
- I'm sorry to hear about...

3) Giving news

- Listen, did I tell you about
- You'll never believe what
- Oh, and another thing
- Let me tell you
- I thought you might be interested in hearing that…
- Have you heard about…?

4) to make suggestions and recommendations

- Why don't you..?
- Maybe you could..
- How about..?
- Do you fancy + ing
- Don’t forget to…

5) To apologise

- I’m writing to apologise for…
- I’m really sorry about…

6) Invitations

- Would you like to…?
- Let me know if you…
- I was wondering if you would like to…
- I’d be very grateful if you…

7) Requests

- I’m writing to ask you for…
- I wonder if…
- I hope you don’t mind…
- I was wondering if you…

8) To thank or congratulate

- I’m writing to thank you for…
- Congratulations on…
- I really appreciated…

III. Closing expressions

1) Closing expressions

- Well I've to go now
- Give my love to
- Say hello to
- See you soon!
- I'd better close now
- Looking forward to hear from you soon
- Hope to hearing from you soon
- Sincerely,
- Keep in touch
- Talk to you soon
- Give my regards to (your family,

2) Singing off

- Love,
- Lost of love,
- Yours,
- All the best

IV Extra

1. Linker as, because, while, but, and, so, althogh, by the way, anyway, perhaps, otherwise, finally

2. Wildcard

   • It's been ages since I last worte
   • Drop me a line to let me know...
   • I've been run off my feet at work and haven't had a moment to my self

V Example