EF6 8:30 June 21

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

 

Summer schedule: https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Documents/Summer%20Schedule%202021%20Final.pdf

 

REMINDER: I will be teaching English Foundations 6 in the morning.

 

Final week of new instruction.

This week:

Monday – business letters

Tuesday – begin essay work

Wednesday- continue essay work

Thursday – Write an essay (worth 10 points)

 

Next week is our final half a week:

Monday- Review of sentences, paragraphs, essays, literary work

Tuesday – Final test – paragraph (worth 6 points)

Wednesday- Marks day. You can email during class time and I will send you back your final mark.

 

Today’s agenda:

1.    Business letters

TOMORROW

parallelism exercises from homework, maybe challenging (from Grade 12 course)

Sentence combining from homework

 

AFTER CLASS: Replacement tests for the students who signed up for it.

 

 

 

Business letters – practical writing skills, practical writing for work, living in Canada, everyday useful writing

 

English Literary Studies 12 – poetry, short story, fiction, novel

 

 

 

QUICK INTRODUCTION TO WRITING BUSINESS LETTERS

 

Reasons to write Business letters:

(Even emails can benefit from using the more formal style of a business letter –sets a professional tone)

e.g. Student emails to teachers.-“What!!!????”

“what day the class end”

“im gonna miss class today what u gonna do in class?”

Very unprofessional looking.

 

A more professional and more formal is advised.

 

- interdepartmental letters (within a company)

- cover letter for a resume (special style)

- application letters to colleges and universities

In the Spring, many of our Grade 12 students after frantic getting applications in to colleges and universities. The letters that they write are very important. I remember spending about two hours cowriting a letter with an E12 student.

 

- letter to a government agency, Canadian government or another country (e.g. Canada Revenue Agency, immigration, pension, City Hall)

NOTE: Communicating with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is really difficult.

 

- employer (e.g. promotion, transfer, raise, personal leave, quit)

- business person

- court (e.g. jury duty)

- lawyer

- report to a supervisor

- incident report (e.g to police or an authority)

 

Have you had to write a letter like that?

 

FORMAL, not casual and personal like a personal letter

Formal – organized (structure), official, appropriate tone, appropriate language, unemotional, a little bit of emotion can be effectice (less is more)

 

 

WRITE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS

AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE

 

Joe Chen

666 Your Street

Vancouver, BC

V5P 2B6

 

June 21, 2021

 

THE NAME, TITLE AND ADDRESS OF THE PERSON YOU ARE WRITING TO

Mary Williamsonson

Director, Shaw Communications

123 Cordova Street

Vancouver, BC

V5R 2D2

 

Re: Client/Reference/Case/Account #4722859   (Re-regarding)

 

OPEN YOUR LETTER WITH A GREETING

 

CHOOSING THE TITLE CAN BE TRICKY: Mr? Mrs?

Robin Smith

Hui Yu Chen

 

Dear Grandma,        comma for a personal letter

 

Sarah Chen               colon for a business letter

Dear Mr. Chen:

Dear Mrs. Smith:

Dear Ms. Smith:

Dear Miss Smith:

Dear Mme Benoit:

Dear Sir or Madam:

 

Use a colon for a business letter, professional, formal, business

 

To Mr. Pacquiao: sounds cold, very formal

To Sarah Chen:

To my dearest Mme Benoit: TOO MUCH

 

e.g. student emails

To my dear teacher: TOO PERSONAL

 

Dear Maria,     A BIT MORE RELAXED

Hi Al,     QUITE INFORMAL AND RELAXED, FRIENDLY

Hello Al,        SLIGHTLY MORE FORMAL, BUT STILL FRIENDLY

 

Hello Justin,

You’re doing a good job as Prime Minister of Canada.

WAY TOO INFORMAL

 

To the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau:

 

To Her Excellency, President Janice Alloud:

To His Excellency, AAA BBB:

 

To Her Excellency, Governor General of Canada, Adrian Clarkson:

 

Dear Sarah:   colon is formal, first name is casual

Dear Sarah,    SEEMS LIKE A BETTER CHOICE

 

NOT AS GOOD- impersonal, sometimes necesasary, for example when you are writing to the government

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

To whom it may concern, (reference letter)

 

ADVICE: It is always better to get the name of the person who you are writing to.

 

To my dear former and current patients,

 

Dear Sir:

Dear Sir Chan,

Dear Madam Smith,

Dear Teacher Jones,

Dear Teacher,

My Dear Teacher,

Dear Sir Teacher Jones,

too submissive

 

Dear Professor Mahed,

honorific, title – Mr, Mrs, Professor, Doctor, teacher, President, Dean, Prime Minister, Vice-President, Chancellor, Father, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Corporal, Officer, manager, Sheriff, Mayor, MP, MLA, Principal, Senator, Queen, King, Prince, Princess

 

BUSINESS WRITING – DON’T INDENT THE PARAGRAPHS

 

Thank you for meeting with me yesterday to discuss the job opportunity. I am very eager to speak furterh with you about this.

 

I would like to setup an interview with you in the next few weeks. I can be available any workday betwee 10 and 3.

 

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SKIP A LINE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS

 

ENDINGS FOR BUSINESS LETTERS

Yours truly,

Yours,

Sincerely,

Yours sincerely,

Best regards,

Regards, (cold sounding, more formal sounding)

Respectfully, (talking to someone higher in the business than you)

Kind regards,

Thank you,

MY FAVOURITE: Best,

 

PERSONAL

Sincerely yours,

Yours sincerely,

Faithfully,

 

OLD-FASHIONED, BUT SOUNDS NICE, PERSONAL LETTERS, NOT FOR BUSINESS

I remain,

 

 

 

 

 

SCENARIO:

Write a short business letter to Robin Smith at Happy Kids School. Request an interview for the job that she posted for a teacher for kids aged 4-6.

Robin Smith, Principal

4568 Meadowlark Lane

Burnaby, BC

V7J1F8

 

NOTE: For privacy, don’t use you real address in the letter.

Email it to me if you like. We can share some tomorrow.

 

 

EASIER

Dad at Home

 

1.    Jackie's dad is a truck driver.

He has driven for twenty years.

He is taking a year off.

He will be with Jackie.

2.    He now works at home.

He works-with Jackie.

He works as a parent.

The parenting is a full-time job.

3.    They clean the house.

They repair the house.

They cook the meals.

They shop.

They have fun.

4.    They play in the afternoon.

They paint.

They picnic.

They go to movies.

They cycle.

5.    Jackie is four.

She enjoys each day.

Each day is spent with her dad.

 

HARDER

New Canadians

 

1.    Canada accepts people.

The people are from other countries.

The countries are troubled.

The trouble is political.

2.    Many Canadians are immigrants.

They have come here recently.

They have come here within the last 100 years.

3.    The people fit in well.

They add to the culture.

The culture already exists.

4.    They also have a culture.

Their culture is their original one.

They add to our cultural mix.

5.    Canada is a mixture.

It is a mixture of races.-

6.    This mixture adds to our national character.