GOAL CHECK – Compare Formal and Informal Communication

(Kiểm tra mục tiêu – So sánh cách giao tiếp Trang Trọng và Thông Thường)

1. Write one of the following emails.

(Viết một trong những email sau.)

- Write a short formal email (120-150 words) to a travel company. You want information about their vacations next summer. Ask for information about their hotels and prices.

(Viết một email ngắn mang tính trang trọng (120-150 từ) cho một công ty du lịch. Bạn muốn thông tin về kỳ nghỉ vào mùa hè tới. Hỏi thông tin về khách sạn và giá cả của bên họ.)

- Write a short informal email (120-150 words) to a friend. You plan to have a party with family and friends for your parents' wedding anniversary. Invite him or her to the party. 

(Viết một email ngắn mang tính thông thường (120-150 từ) cho một người bạn. Bạn dự định có một bữa tiệc với gia đình và bạn bè nhân kỷ niệm ngày cưới của bố mẹ bạn. Mời anh ấy hoặc cô ấy đến bữa tiệc.)

2. Exchange emails with a partner. How well does your partner use formal and informal language? Give feedback.

(Trao đổi email với bạn bên cạnh. Bạn của bạn sử dụng ngôn ngữ trang trọng và thông thường tốt như thế nào? Đưa ra nhận xét.)

In this project, you’ll make a survey to ask people about their timetables and how they use gadgets. Then you’ll make a presentation to

show the results of your survey.

Follow these steps to make your survey.

Think about the questions you want to ask. What do you want to know about people’s timetables? What do you want to know about how

they use gadgets?

Think about the types of questions you want to use (for example, Wh- questions and Yes/No questions). Do you know how to ask these

two types of questions?

Write three questions to ask people about their timetable. 

Write three questions to ask people about gadgets.

Read your questions and check your spelling, grammar and punctuation. Make changes if necessary. 

Now do your survey. Make notes on the answers you get.

• Match words in the advert with the definitions (1-8).
1. People applying for the job
2. A letter or email to say you’d like to apply for the job
3. The amount of money you will make a year
4. Looking for people to work for the company (formal word for ‘employing’)
5. A more formal word for ‘jobs’ with a company
6. Abbreviation meaning Curriculum Vitae (with information about you, your qualifications and experience)
7. Information about what you will need to do in the job
8. Information including name, number and address
• Complete the sentences with these prepositions
1. Walk _________ to the other side of the car park and the factory is there.
2. Can you pass me that book _______ the shelf?
3. There’s lots of water ________ the water cooler so help yourself to a drink
. 4. Go ________ those doors at the end and the photocopier is there.
5. The cafeteria is ________ the top of the building on the fifth floor.
6. We sit _______ each other in the same office.
• Complete the questions with the present perfect or past simple form of the verbs.
A: How long ______ you ______ (work) here?
B: About three years. I _______ (join) the newspaper when I left the university.
A: So, ______ you always ______ (want) to be a journalist?
B: Not particularly. But when I ______ (be) young, I wrote stories.
A: What ______ you ______ (study) at university?
B: Spanish. A: ______ you ever _______ (live) in Spain?
B: No, but I __________ (spend) a summer in Argentina.
A: Really? ______ you ________(travel) around a lot?
​ B: Yes, I did. Especially in the region of Patagonia