Урок підготувала Соловей Марина Миколаївна, учитель СЗШ-гімназії №30 м.Вінниці
How to Write a Transactional Letter
Formal Transactional Letter
A formal transactional letter is a letter you write to respond to the information you've read in a newspaper or a magazine, or a programme you've watched on TV. When you write this kind of letter, follow the recommendations:
1. Use the appropriate greeting. (Dear Sir, ... ; Dear Mr Brown, ... ; Dear Editor, ... )
2. Explain your reason for writing.
3. Introduce your first point. (First of all, ... ; To start with, ... ). .
Introduce further points. (Secondly, ; Also, ... ).
Introduce your final points. (Finally, .. ).
4. Introduce any suggestions or proposals you make. (In my view, ... ).
5. End the letter in an appropriate way.
End with 'Yours faithfully' after 'Dear Sir' and 'Yours sincerely' when you use the person's name.
Transactional letter - це тип формальної кореспонденції, коли автор пише свій відгук на певну інформацію, яку він узнав із ЗМІ (газет, журналів, телебачення). Цей лист складається із певних частин:
1. Привітання.(Greeting)
2. Пояснення причини написання листа.(Reasoning)
3. Пояснення проблеми та пенні аргументи.(Your own points or arguments)
4. Пропозиції вирішення проблеми.(Suggestions and proposals)
5. Закінчення листа. (Closure)
N.B. Якщо на початку листа ви звертаєтесь до одержувача по імені, у закінченні ви повинні вжити фразу: Yours sincerely.
Якщо на початку листа ви звертаєтесь до одержувача по посаді або титулу, то у закінченні ви повинні вжити фразу: Yours faithfully.
Якщо ви не поставили кому після звертання, то не треба ставити кому після закінчення.
Task 1. Read the letter and try to understand the main rules of writing transactional letter.
Task 2. The parts of the letter given below are jumbled. Match the parts of the letter (A- E) with the recommendations from the rule (1-5). Відповідь введіть за зразком A5B4C3D2E1
A. Yours sincerely,
Rebecca Aberdeen
B. I'm really angry with the fact that only 1,411 tigers are left in India.
C. I think tigers should be protected. Do you?
D. Tigers are living creatures, not rugs and coats. They are beautiful but they look better ALIVE! Killing tigers is like killing humans because we are all living creatures and we all feel pain. I'm glad people are doing something, but is it enough? If there are only 400-500 Sumatran Tigers left and if we keep killing them like this, they'll be extinct in the wild in years.
E. Dear Mr Brown,
Task 3. Write a transactional letter using the examples and recommendations.
Task: Imagine that the local authorities have decided to chop down Gorky Park in Vinnytsia and build a shopping center instead. Write a letter to the mayor of the city and express your opinion and proposals as for this.
Task 1. Work in pairs. Student A reads the information on page 284, student B reads the information on page 285. Take turns to read out the information piece by piece about the different animals and guess what animal from the photos of Ex. 5 is being described. The student who guesses correctly gets one point. The winner is the person with the highest score.
Task 2. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions.
1. Why is the protection of animals important?
2. What different factors threaten their existence?
3. What endangered species of animals do you know?
4. Do you think endangered species of animals should be bred up in captivity or live in the wild?
5. Do you think zoos are good and useful places, or prisons for animals?
6. What are the most popular pets nowadays?
7. Are there any organizations which try to save the animals for future?
Task 3. Work in groups. You are going to read the children's letters to the editor of a youth magazine. What endangered species of animals do the children write about?
Group A
Dear Editor,
I am writing to you to offer my opinion about critically endangered animals around the world.
One of the animals that are currently endangered is the orangutan. I have found out that on the island of Borneo, an area of rainforests the size of three football pitches is cut down every minute of every day. This tropical island (the third largest in the world) is under siege as never before from loggers and plantation owners. They are destroying these rainforests because palm oil is used in many of our everyday products. These include ice cream, chocolate, biscuits, crisps, margarine, toothpaste, soap, detergents and cosmetics. The shelves in your supermarket are full of products, containing palm oil, which is contributing to the destruction of rainforests wildlife.
I have decided not to buy anything that has palm oil in it. This means checking the label of products before I buy them. If everyone only bought products that do not contain palm oil, then the producers will have to find an alternative to put in their products. This will mean that the people that chop down the trees will not do it anymore because no one will buy it from them. This is the best way to prevent orangutans from becoming extinct. This is an amazing creature that I would like to help save!
Yours faithfully,
Lewis Tame
Brighton
Group B
Dear Mr Brown,
I'm really angry with the fact that only 1,411 tigers are left in India.
Tigers are living creatures, not rugs and coats. They are beautiful but they look better ALIVEI Killing tigers is like killing humans because we are all living creatures and we all feel pain. I'm glad people are doing something, but is it enough? If there are only 400-500 Sumatran Tigers left and if we keep killing them like this, they'll be extinct in the wild in years. I think tigers should be protected. Do you?
Yours sincerely,
Rebecca Aberdeen
