Hey everyone welcome back to my channel this is Dori I'm a teacher of
English and today I'm going to show you the strategy and plan
you should follow in order to write an informal
letter in the IELTS general writing task 1
okay keep in mind that the majority of times they're going to
ask you to write a formal letter in the exam
and if you want to watch the video about how to write
a formal letter you can watch this video over here in this link
but today let's go and see how an
informal task would look like okay this is your task let's read it
okay it is obviously an informal letter
since you write to a friend you have to begin your letter with dear
and since this is your friend you can come up with any name you like in
this case
so let's just say that your friend's name is John
so you have Dear John after that things are simple you don't have to worry about
this it is a letter to a friend however do not get
too carried away because it is a friendly letter and start writing
the story of your life
no you should still be organized so
you will use one
paragraph for each of these points
over here let's read
the first point again
so in the first paragraph you're going to do
exactly that in an informal tone
this means that your tone can be friendly and conversational
as you would speak to him you can use
informal expressions phrasal verbs
thanks for example instead of
thank you and you can also use contractions
of verbs for example
you can use all these
in a formal letter you can't alright
So, let's see our first paragraph
as you can see in order to
to develop each of these three points over here you need
to invent some things but just use your imagination and it will be fun
also notice that my tone in the first paragraph
over here
is very friendly and warm
and I use humour since this is a very close friend of mine
we went on holiday together right I use
informal language phrasal verbs and contractions
of verbs of course don't overdo it
this is a close friend but still the letter is going to be read
by an examiner so be decent and polite
no rude phrases or swearing or anything like that ok
now accordingly you'll write one paragraph for this second point
let's read it
and your last paragraph is going to be about the third point
again despite being informal you should still be organized
and coherent so you can explain why you didn't write sooner
and then remember your holidays again and consequently
invite him
to spend time some time together again do you see how smoothly this goes from paragraph
to paragraph one thought leads you to the next one
even if you come up with your own ideas
you see? Now let's see how you can close your letter
of course no "yours faithfully" or "yours sincerely" here
these are only for formal letters here
in an informal letter you will close your letter with one of the following
Let's see
before that though you can still
choose to write
you can use this
Both in a formal and an informal letter so we will close our
letter with
I'm looking forward to hearing from you and we will choose
the phrase all the best and our name for example in this case
Patrick okay that's it
if you like to see or read the rest of the letter you can do it here
in this link now you just need to improve your grammar syntax vocabulary
and please
your spelling as always good luck with your exam