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This document provides instructions and examples for writing an informal letter as part of an IGCSE exercise. Students are asked to write a 100-150 word letter to a friend describing a "big cleaning day" their school had last month. The letter should include when and where it took place, the cleaning activities students did, and why keeping the environment clean is important. The document provides vocabulary words to use in the letter with their definitions, as well as a sample letter with blanks to fill in as a guide for students.

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Gateway 3 Unit 7 Print

This document provides instructions and examples for writing an informal letter as part of an IGCSE exercise. Students are asked to write a 100-150 word letter to a friend describing a "big cleaning day" their school had last month. The letter should include when and where it took place, the cleaning activities students did, and why keeping the environment clean is important. The document provides vocabulary words to use in the letter with their definitions, as well as a sample letter with blanks to fill in as a guide for students.

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Preparing for IGCSE Exercise 6 : Informal Letter Writing

Your school had a big cleaning day last month.


Write a letter to a friend telling him/her about it.
In your letter you should :
say where and when you had the big cleaning day;
tell your friend what kind of cleaning activities your class did
tell your friend why its important to keep our environment clean
Your letter should be between 100 and 150 words long. Do not write an
address.
You may use the pictures above to give you some ideas, but you are free to use
any ideas of your own.
You will receive up to 7 marks for the content of your letter and up to 6 marks for
the style and accuracy of your language.
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Activity 1
Here are some words which are useful to use in your informal letter. Try to match
the word to its correct meaning and write the number in the blank. The first one
has been done for you.
1. broom
with __2 _

A. something used to wipe or clean

2. sponge
disease ___

B. tiny living things that can cause

3. school grounds
in cleaning ___

C. rags or pieces of old clothing used

4. cloths
floor ___

D. a kind of brush used to clean the

5. styrofoam
floor

E. trash, rubbish or garbage on the

Preparing for IGCSE Exercise 6 : Informal Letter Writing

6. litter

F. the area all around us

7. environment
buildings

G. the area around the school

8. germs
dirt

H. a pan with a handle used to scoop

9. dustpan
colour, plastic material

I. a lightweight , mostly white in

Activity 2
This is a good example of the letter you have to write. Firstly, read the
complete letter with the blanks. Secondly, look at the answers at the bottom
of this activity. Thirdly, choose the best answers and write it in the blanks.

Dear Hazmie
How are (1) ______ I am (2) _______. Last (3) __________, on a Saturday, my school
(4)_____ a big cleaning day. I (5) ____ tell you all about it.
We (6) ____ not have lessons from 8.00 am (7) ________ 10.00 am. My form
teacher, Hajah Rosni, (8) _______ us some brooms, mops, dustpans, cleaning (9)
_________, buckets of water, cleaning (10) __________ and sponges to (11) ______
our classroom. The boys in my form class (12) __________ the windows, walls and
doors. The girls (13) ___________ the floors.
(14) ________________ we went around the school grounds to clean up all the (15)
__________. We (16) __________ a lot of styrofoam food covers and (17)
___________________ . Hajah Rosni told us that (18) ______________ very important
to keep our (19) ________________________ clean because there will not be any (20)
___________________________________________.
(21) _______________________________________________ and I will see you at The Mall
next Sunday.
(22) _______________________,
Farid
NUMBER OF WORDS : [148]
1.( a) yours

(b) you

2.( a) finne

(b) fines

(c) your
(c) fined

(d) youre
(d) fine

Preparing for IGCSE Exercise 6 : Informal Letter Writing

3.( a) month

(b) year

(c) week

(d) day

4.( a) has

(b) was

(c) is

(d) had

5.( a) wil

(b) will

(c) am

(d) is

6.( a) did

(b) do

(c) was

(d) is

7.( a) and

(b) before

(c) until

(d) after

8.( a) gave

(b) give

9.( a) clothes

(b) cloths

(c) things

10.( a) soup

(b) sop

(c) soap

(d) soaps

11.( a) clean

(b) cleans

(c) cleaning

(d) cleaned

(c) gives

(d) gaves
(d) stuf

12.( a) clean

(b) cleans

(c) cleaning

(d) cleaned

13.( a) moped

(b) mops

(c) mopped

(d) mopping

14.( a) After that

(b) After that,

(c) After

(d) after that,

15.( a) litter

(b) littering

16.( a) find

(b) found

(c) founded

(d) finding

17.( a) candy
paper

(b) candies

(c) candy wrappers

(d) candy

18.( a) it was

(b) it being

(c) is

19.( a) areas

(b) environment

20.( a) danger
dangers

(b) dangerous germs

21.( a) Thank you for reading my letter


(d) Goodbye
22.( a) Yours friend
(d) Your friendly

(b) Your friend

(c) stuf

(d) things

(d) it is

(c) environmm

(d) space

(c) dangerous stuf

(b) Thanking you

(d)

(c) goodbye

(c) You friend

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Preparing for IGCSE Exercise 6 : Informal Letter Writing

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