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WRITING AN EMAIL

PET TEST WRITING PART 1

What you are expected to do?

In this part of the test, you are given an email from an English friend or relative, and you are asked to respond to it in about 100 words.
As regards the topics, they’re usually not very difficult, as you’re expected to write at an intermediate level, about topics you are familiar with: sports, hobbies, TV programmes, the weather, your town/city, etc.

Example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

As you can see in the example above, taken from Cambridge’s official website, we have received an email from a person so-called Sandy, who is a friend of ours. In addition, we have made some annotations, which are the points we need to address in your email: * Me too! * Say which I prefer * No, because… * Ask Sandy… In this sense, Cambridge is making this task easier, as we definitely won’t go blank and they are pointing out the structure that our email should have, which we will see in the following section.

Email structure

The first thing you need to know is the different parts of an email, and these are: Greetings: we greet the other person (i.e. say “hi” or “hello”). Opening paragraph: we react to the other person’s news and ask them how they are feeling and whatever else you feel is appropriate. Main paragraph 1: in this paragraph we deal with the first important point, which we can identify in the instructions. Main paragraph 2: if there is a different point to deal with, this paragraph will do so. Closing paragraph: in this paragraph we “start” to say goodbye by wishing the other person well and asking them to reply to your email. Goodbye: we use a short expression to say goodbye. Signature: we sign the email with our name.

In general, all emails must follow the same structure, and also, I recommend you following these two pieces of advice:: Don’t write From: y To:, as it is completely unnecessary and Cambridge won’t penalise you. Also, you’re saving words which you can use in the body of your email. Don’t write a subject, for the same reason as before.

Example:

In the example above, you can see the different parts of an email well defined. It’s important that your writing is visually appealing, apart from having good grammar and vocabulary. This means that the paragraphs should be well defined, with a space in between, and that you should know when to break lines. This is specially important after greetings, after opening and closing paragraphs, and after saying goodbye. This will make your text visually appealing, as it will look like a real email.

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