Tugas M1 LA1 Personal Letter

LEARNING ACTIVITY 1

TASK 1

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
Context	It is a personal and informal letter for a close friend	It is a personal and informal letter for someone new	It is a personal and informal letter for replying a letter from someone new
Receiver	A close Friend	A new contact	A new friend
Purpose	To share the last news about her mom’s health	To make a friend to help improving the addressee English skill	To introduce the writer identity.

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 himself and the addressee replied it in Letter 3.

2.                                        The tone of the letter is informal but The letter 1 is more friendly 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.

	Letter 1	Letter 2	Letter 3
Date of Writing	April 17, 2018	It’s not written	It’s not written
Sender	Aleena	Alexa	Ivo
Greetings form	Dear (Informal/Friendly)	Hello (Informal/Friendly)	Hello (Informal/Friendly)
Main content	The sender shares her bad experience to an old friend	The sender wants to start friendship with someone new	The sender replies a letter from a new friend
Personal news	The sender’s mother is sick and it disturbs her days	The sender’s friend told him to that the addressee wants to practice English so the sender gives a good response to make a friend with the addressee	She introduces herself
Complementary close/Sign off	Love	Thanks	Best wishes
Receiver	Fatima	Ivo	Alexa

TASK 4

Now, report the similarities and differences of the four letters by filling out the table below.

		Letter 1	Letter 2	Letter 3
Similarities	Social function	To exchange news about the sender’s last vocation and her mother’s condition	To make a relationship with a new friend	To exchange information to a new friend.
	Text structures	·      Date ·      Salutation and name ·      Introduction ·      Body ·      Closing (to indicate the letter is going to end; Give my love to your mom and dad and loads of love to you too) ·      Complimentary close (short expression; love) ·      Signature (name of the writer; Aleena)	·         Salutation ·         Introduction ·         Body ·         Complimentary close (short expression; thanks)	·         Salutation and name ·         Introduction ·         Body ·         Closing (to indicate the letter is going to end; anyway I must go and get on with my work!) ·         Complimentary close (short expression; best wishes) ·         Signature (name of the writer; Ivo)
	Lexico-gram matical Feature	·      simple present tense ·      simple past tense to tell the past experience	·         simple present tense	·         simple present tense
Differences	Social function	to exchange information to someone already known	To inform that the sender wants to make a friend with someone new.	To reply the letter from a new friend.
	Text structures	There is a date	There is no date, name of addressee, closure, nor signature	There is no date

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 5^th 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 remember 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