Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing bank 1 for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the How to ... box with the underlined examples from the email.
  2. What kinds of people do you think would choose to write in this way? When would it not be appropriate to write like this?

Answer

a)

  1. Love it!
  2. So some of my news
  3. you know
  4. or something
  5. What's he up to?
  6. 'cos (because)
  7. :-D
  8. Fernanda!!
  9. all those years ago!!

b) Friends. It would not be appropriate to write a formal letter in this way.