Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing 5 - Formal emails for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

More formal writing has some rules such as those below. Find an example of each in the email.

Answer

  1. Dear Ms Roberts,
  2. I am writing, we are all very much looking forward to it, there is a motorcycle Grand Prix, we are scheduled, we are sure the zoo is really nice, they do not mind, it is only 30km, you would have to come with us, We are sorry, we are all very keen to go
  3. we were wondering if we could possibly ...
  4. on behalf of, we are scheduled to, Alternatively, currently, this causes any inconvenience, we very much appreciate it.
  5. Yours sincerely