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Cambridge English for the Media   Cambridge University Press 2009     
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UNIT 2 Radio Teacher’s Notes

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    b 
Students discuss the questions in pairs.
 Answers
1  Yes
2  Yes, with reference to the meteorology expert. Also implicit is the fact that 
Dawn would have liked to break the news of the rail crash.
3  At the beginning of the email there is no salutation; Dawn instead chooses to 
thank the staff for their work. To finish, she simply puts her name. 
4 
Starting with the bad news
 + clause 
 
Unfortunately
 + clause 
 
On a positive note
 + clause
5  Relatively informal but still authoritative (see answer 3 above). The email 
uses standard English, but note the use of dashes, an exclamation mark, 
contractions, and a sentence beginning with 
and
, all of which are more typical 
of informal communication.
    c 
Students write their emails as a homework activity using useful phrases from the