The Business Pre-int tb indd

I look forward to meeting you / See you next month

With best regards / All the best

exTenSIOn ACTIVITy

As a follow-up, find out how students sign themselves off 

in an informal email. Ask if they use their first name, a 

nickname, just their initials, use smiley faces, etc.

Formal and informal language

4

  With stronger groups, before doing this exercise, tell 

students you will read out a list of formal words. They should 

guess the informal equivalent and write it down. When they 

do the matching exercise, they can check if they were correct. 

After students do the matching exercise, quickly check 

answers with the whole class.

AnSWeRS:

1  c)      2  b)      3  d)      4  a)      5  f)      6  g)      7  h)      8  e)

5

  Ask students to work with a partner and underline any 

words and phrases that are informal. Students then discuss 

what the formal alternative is. Ask students to write the email 

and compare their version with a partner. Remind students 

that they can use expressions from the formal email in 

exercise 2 and any of the words in exercise 4.

Monitor their writing and offer help as required. Students who 

finish early can exchange their emails in order to do a quick 

peer check.