Writing - Hello! Beyond Words Term 1 - أول اعدادي
UNIT1: A great summer
UNIT2: My network
UNIT3: My time
UNIT4: Digital life
UNIT6: Food for thought

Read Waleed’s email and answer the questions How does Waleed feel about being back at school?
Read the email. Why is Waleed writing to Ashraf?
Read again. Underline these things in the email
Use informal language in an email
4 Match the short forms you can use in informal emails with their long forms. 1 BTW 2 TTYL! 3 Thanx 4 V a Talk to you later! b Thanks c very d by the way 5 Think about your summer vacation. Make notes in the table. Useful language Short forms are usually the first letter of each word, e.g. Laughing out loud = LOL. Sometimes short forms are written the same way they sound, e.g. See you = CU, Thanks = Thanx. the activities you did with the activities you did with your family your friends the activities you did to help other people 6 Write an email to a friend about your summer vacation. Use your notes from Exercise 5 and the expressions in the Useful language box. Write 80-100 words. Check your writing Does your email ... • include information about your summer vacation? use informal language? have correct spelling and punctuation? Useful language Hi / Hello, How are you? Let me tell you about ... Tell me about ... Write back soon. Self-Assessment Check your progress use vocabulary for summer vacation activities use the past simple tense use a flow chart to solve problems use adverbs of frequency to talk about the past use informal language in an email I can do this I need more practice UNIT 1 15

Match the short forms you can use in informal emails with their long forms
Think about your summer vacation Make notes in the table the activities you did with your family
Write an email to a friend about your summer vacation. Use your notes from Exercise 5 and the expressions in the Useful language box Write 80-100 words
Self-Assessment

