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
informal letter for a close letter for someone new informal letter for
Context
friend replying a letter from
someone new
Receiver A close Friend A new contact 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
himself and the addressee replied it in Letter 3.
2. 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.
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 Hello (Informal/Friendly) Hello
 (Informal/Friendly) (Informal/Friendly)
Main content The sender shares The sender wants to start The sender replies a
her bad experience friendship with someone new letter from a new
to an old friend friend
Personal news The sender’s mother The sender’s friend told him She introduces
is sick and it to that the addressee wants to herself
disturbs her days practice English so the
sender gives a good response
to make a friend with the
addressee
Complementary Love Thanks Best wishes
close/Sign off
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
To exchange news about the To make a To exchange information
Social
sender’s last vocation and her relationship with a to a new friend.
function
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)
Similaritie Text anyway I must go and get
to your mom and dad and
s structures on with my work!)
loads of love to you too) · Complimentary close
· Complimentary close (short (short expression; best
expression; love) wishes)
· Signature (name of the writer; · Signature (name of the
Aleena) writer; Ivo)
Lexico-gram· simple present tense simple present tense · simple present tense
matical · simple past tense to tell the
Feature past experience
 to exchange information to To inform that the To reply the letter from a
Social someone already known sender wants to make new friend.
function a friend with someone
Differences new.
There is a date There is no date, name There is no date
Text
of addressee, closure,
structures
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 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

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.