INFORMAL EMAIL WRITING
(DESCRIPTIVE/NARRATIVE)
STRUCTURE- 5 paragraphs
Opening Salutation- Dear John
Introduction- General wellbeing and mention the
purpose of writing the letter.
Body Paragraph 1- Develop key point 1 from the
question.
Body Paragraph 2- Develop key point 2 from the
question.
Body Paragraph 3- Develop key point 3 from the
question.
Conclusion- Ask to meet or reply sharing their
experience.
Closing salutation- Best regards/ yours friendly
Language features
 Variety of sentence structures.
 Strong Adjectives
 Figurative language- Simile/ Metaphor/
Personification/Alliteration/ Onomatopoeia
 Sensory Details/ Imagery
 Informal language- Use idioms/ contractions
(I’m, don’t, won’t, haven’t)
 Avoid Abbreviations
 Transitional words and phrases
 Time phrases (Eg: shortly after that/later/that
afternoon/after dinner etc)
 Phrasal verbs- verb+ preposition (catch up,
look after, take away, keep on)
 Take care of spelling, punctuation and
grammar
 Word limit 120-160 words
You recently went to an opening day of a new
visitor attraction in your town. Write an email to a
friend about the day.
In your email, you should
not
Your email should be 120-160 words long.
Hi Ahmed,
How have you been? Sorry, I couldn’t write back to you
earlier.
Recently I visited the newly opened Aqua Dreamland with my
family. You must’ve read in the papers that it is the largest
water park in the world. I must tell you they are not kidding;
the place is huge. But I must add that the tickets did cost me
an arm and a leg.
We reached there at 11AM and immediately jumped into the
pool. After lazing around for a bit, I decided to explore the
jaw-dropping rides. I first sat on the Velociraptor and felt as if
my heart skipped a beat. Later I went on exploring the other
fast fascinating fun rides.
I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure and I think it’ll be a huge
success in the days to come, especially during the holiday
season. However, I feel the tickets are overpriced.
Hope we can plan to visit this amazing place soon.
Take care,
Ali