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Part 1 Getting to Know Personal Letters In this activity, you will learn some personal letters which you might find them familiar. Read the following personal letters. TASK 1 Example1: April 17th 2018 Dear Fatima, I hope this letter finds all of you in the best of health and spirits. All of us are also doing fine here. It has been a very long time since we met or wrote to each other. So I thought of penning down a few lines to check things with you. We just got back from our vacation to Malang and had a great time. We went to Bromo and Kota Batu. Amazing must see places. If you happen to ever plan a holiday to that side of the world do let me know and I shall give you tips on sight seeing, culinary, etc. I want to share something that is disturbing me these days.Mom has not been keeping good health and I am really worried for her. Sometimes I see bad dreams about mom and they wake me up in the middle of the night. I am sure you know what bad dreams I am talking about. Please don’t share this with anybody and I know I can trust you on this. Anyways you say what is up with you and how is work? I can see that it is keeping you really busy, as I haven’t heard from you at all. Give my love to your mom and dad and loads of love to you too. Stay in touch and do write! Take care Love, Aleena Adapted from: http://www.letters.org/friendship-letter/friendship-letter.html

Example 2: Hello, I would like to get to know someone from your country and a friend has told me that you would like to practise your English. Perhaps we could email each other. Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your family? Could you suggest how we might meet sometime in the future? Thanks... Example 3:

Hello Alexa, I'm glad you're interested in my country. As your friend said, I'd like us to email each other to help me improve your English. Let me start by telling you a bit about myself and my family. My name's Ivo and I live in Kutna Hora, which is about 45 minutes from Prague by car. I used to work for a medical company but now I'm learning to be a salesperson. In the future I want a job where I can travel for my work. I've already been to a few places in Europe but I've never been to an English-speaking country. I live at home with my parents, which is convenient, as I don't have to do much housework and my meals are cooked for me. My younger brother is studying at university. Although he is four years younger than me, we get on quite well. We both enjoy snowboarding and music. What about you? Have you ever been to the Czech Republic? It would be great if you could come over one Anyway, I must go and get on with my work! Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best wishes, Ivo Adapted from http://www.rubenvalero.com/english/content/fce-informal-letter-or-email Now, you will compare the Social Functions of the four personal letters. Regarding the contexts, the receivers, the purposes by answering the following questions. L1 L2 L3 It is a personal and It is a personal and informal It is a personal and Context

informal letter for a close letter for someone new

informal

letter

for

friend

replying a letter from

Receiver

someone new A close Friend A new A new friend To share the last news To make a friend to help To introduce the writer

Purpose

about her mom’s health

improving the addressee English identity. skill

TASK 2 In this task, you are going to analyse the letter structure by the senders and receivers. 1. What personal relation do each sender of the letter to the addressees? Provide evidence from the letters! 2. What is the tone of each letter? Provide evidences from the letters. 1.

Based on the letter 1, the sender and the addressee are old friends. It can be seen that Aleena as the sender of the letter said “It has been a very long time since we met or wrote to each other. So, they used to meet each other before. According to Letter 2 and 3 which has the correlation, it can be implied that they, sender and the addressee, have never met each other before. Letter 2 told that the sender sent this letter to his friend’s friend. The sender of this letter wanted to improve his English while the addressee (who is the sender of Letter 3) wants to practice English. One thing to make sure that they have never met each other is that the sender of Letter 2 asks the addressee to introduce

2.

himself and the addressee replied it in Letter 3. The tone of the letter is informal but the letter 1 is friendlier than the other letter. It can be seen from the word choice of the letters. The letters use the word ‘dear’ and ‘hello’ for the opening and the closing of the letter 3, the sender said “Anyway, I must go and get on with my work! “ it tells us that the style of language is not formal. In Letter 1 also tells us that the sender uses word ‘take care’ and ‘love’. TASK 3 Fill in the table by referring to the previous letter in task 1 In this task, you are going to analyze the letter structure by the senders and receivers. Fill in the table by referring to the previous letter in task 1. Date of Writing Sender Greetings form

Letter 1 April 17, 2018 Aleena Dear

Letter 2 It’s not written Alexa Hello (Informal/Friendly)

Letter 3 It’s not written Ivo Hello

(Informal/Friendly) (Informal/Friendly) The sender shares The sender wants to start The sender replies a

Main content

her bad experience friendship with someone new

letter from a new

to an old friend friend The sender’s mother The sender’s friend told him She

Personal news

is

sick

and

disturbs her days

introduces

it to that the addressee wants to herself practice

English

so

the

sender gives a good response to make a friend with the Complementary close/Sign off Receiver

Love

addressee Thanks

Best wishes

Fatima

Ivo

Alexa

TASK 4 Now, report the similarities and differences of the four letters by filling out the table below. Letter 1 To exchange news about the To

Social

sender’s last vocation and her relationship

function · · · · · Similaritie

Text

s

structures

Letter 2 make with

Letter 3 a To exchange information a to a new friend.

mother’s condition new friend Date · Salutation · Salutation and name Salutation and name · Introduction · Introduction Introduction · Body · Body Body · Complimentary close · Closing (to indicate the Closing (to indicate the letter (short expression; letter is going to end; is going to end; Give my love thanks) anyway I must go and get to your mom and dad and on with my work!)

loads of love to you too) · Complimentary close (short expression; love) · Signature (name of the writer;

·

(short ·

Aleena) Lexico-gram· simple present tense matical · simple past tense to tell the Feature

past experience

Complimentary

simple present tense ·

expression;

close best

wishes) Signature (name of the writer; Ivo) simple present tense

to exchange information to To inform that the To reply the letter from a Social

someone already known

function

a friend with someone

Differences Text

sender wants to make new friend.

There is a date

structures

new. There is no date, name There is no date of addressee, closure, nor signature

TASK 5 Now, you will learn how to construct a personal letter. To begin with, rearrange the structure of a personal letter here into a good order! 1. Brisbane, June 5th 2018 2. Dearest John and Jane, 3. I hope this letter finds you well .I’m just writing to thank you both for the holiday and for the photos you sent. The photos arrived this morning in the post. They reminded me what a great time I had during my stay with you last month. You really were fantastic hosts, and I couldn’t have asked for better guides to show me around 4. Sorry I didn’t write to you earlier, but I’ve been working flat out since the moment I arrived home. Do you I told you I had an assignment to finish? Well, the deadline was two weeks earlier than I thought It was! 5. Anyway, I’m back to normal now and I’ve handed in all of my assignments. In fact, now that I’m free ,why don’t you both come and stay? There’s a spare room here ,so you’re welcome to use it whenever you like. 6. Hope to see you soon, 7. Peter

TASK 6 In this task, you will learn more about how you exchange Rearrange the multiply email here into a correct order. It can be seen that the correct order of the multiply email is : F – B – D – E – A – C

Assignment M1 LA1 Instructions Please do the assignment below to rehearse anything you have learnt in this activity and send it to the link provided. Write an email to a friend of yours and ask him or her to reply. You can send and reply the letter into three cycles. Lubuklinggau, July 22nd 2018 Dear Nopri, It’s been long time we haven’t met each other and I guessed it would be great I write a letter to see how everything is. I am very well here and I hope this letter find you in a good condition. Bro, I saw your article has been published in Edu Magazine. I read it and it is so amazing. You’ve written wisely how Islam sets education system and it describes that there are so many things we have to do for ummat in education part. Nop, my organization will be holding the great education seminar here. It will be held on August 20, 2018. I just want you to come to this seminar and we can discuss about Islamic education system after that in my house. I really want to know about it and I think there is no reason that you will not come. I do hope you can come to this seminar. Anyway, I must go and get on with my work! Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best wishes RH Lubuklinggau, July 25th 2018 Hello RH, I’m glad to hear about you, bro. I hope this letter also finds you in the best of health and spirits. I am doing fine here. I would like to come to that seminar but I am afraid I can’t. I have to attend the invitation from the ministry of education which coincided with the seminar. You know, I really can’t wait for our discussion but it won’t happen soon. I will fly to Jakarta next week, and after going home from there, I directly fly to your town, I hope you can spare your time for me on that day. RH, I have to go now, my child has called me to pick him up. Your Friend NP Lubuklinggau, July 29th 2018 Hi Nopri,

Nice, it will be a wonderful day in which we can enjoy our coffee in our favorite place. I can’t never wait for that. I am ready 100%. If you never mind if I pick you up in the airport, I will be glad. Ok see u bro.. Thanks for your coming later.

REFLECTION/SUMMARY In this activity, I have learned a number of personal letters. THE comparison of the social functions of a number of personal letters regarding the context of situation, the target receiver, the points of interests or importance, the structure of each of the letters, including the layout, the structure and the detail information, the lexicogrammatical features of personal letters by determining the choice of words and expressions, the use of direct and indirect sentences, the tenses, the fonts, the punctuation marks, etc. how to construct a personal letter and respond to the letter according to their context of situation, social function, text structure, and lexico-grammatical features. The key features of personal text include Social Function, Generic Structure, Significant Lexico-grammatical Features, What I like most about this activity is to compare the social functions of a number of personal letters regarding the context of situation, the target receiver, the points of interests or importance. What I need to improve/learn more is to construct a personal letter and respond to the letter according to their context of situation, social function, text structure, and lexico-grammatical features.

TASK 5 (M1 LA1 Part 2)

Now, you will learn how to construct a personal letter. To begin with, rearrange the structure of a personal letter into a good order! Sekarang, Anda akan belajar cara membuat surat pribadi. Untuk memulainya, atur ulang struktur surat pribadi menjadi urutan yang baik!

Instructions Task6 In this task, you will learn more about how you exchange Rearrange the multiply email into a correct order. Dalam tugas ini, Anda akan belajar lebih banyak tentang bagaimana Anda menukar Mengatur ulang email gandakan ke dalam urutan yang benar.