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                       4.2      An email about your daily routine


                  MODULE C



                    An email about your daily
                    routine
                    When we write an informal email
                                                             From: Karina
                    about our daily routine, we use
                                                             To: Molly
                    informal language.
                                                             Subject: My Daily Routine!
                    •  We always start our email with
                      an informal greeting + our e-          Hey, Molly!
                      friend’s first name (Hey, Nick,).      Hope you’re OK. Here’s my daily
                    •  We greet our friend (opening          routine.
                      remarks) and give the reason           In the morning, I get up at 7 o’clock,
                      for writing.                           have a shower and have breakfast. I go to school at 8:30. I get
                    •  Then we write about our daily         back at 4 and do my homework. Then, we have dinner. I go
                      routine. The information is in         to bed at 10.
                      chronological order: morning,          Write back,
                      then afternoon, then evening.
                                                             Karina
                      We  normally  use  the  present
                      simple. We end the email with
                      our  closing  remarks (What’s
                      your daily routine like?).
                    •  We sign off our email with Lots        Model analysis
                      of love, etc + our first name.
                                                          2        Read the model. Make notes under the headings: ■ In
                                                              the morning ■ In the afternoon ■ In the evening. Write in your
                       Rubric analysis                        notebook. Then, use your notes to tell the class about
                                                              Karina’s daily routine.
                  1        Read the task. Use the
                       underlined key words to
                       complete the sentences. Write       Writing Tip      Linkers before/after
                       in your notebook.
                                                          • We use before to show that an action happens earlier than
                                                            another action. Before I go to school, I have breakfast./I have
                   Write an email to your English-          breakfast before I go to school.
                   speaking e-friend about your daily     • We use after to show that an action happens later than another
                   routine (50 words). In your email,       action. After I have breakfast, I go to school. I go to school after I
                   write: ■ what you do in the morning      have breakfast.
                   ■ what you do in the afternoon
                   ■ what you do in the evening.
                                                          3        Read the theory. Complete with before or after. Write
                                                              in your notebook.
                            1   You are going to write a(n) ... .
                            2   You are going to write to ... .            1   I usually watch TV … I go to bed.
                            3   You are going to write about  ... .            2   Paul goes straight home … lessons finish.
                            4   You are going to write ... words.             3   … I get up, I always have a shower.
                            5   You are going to use ... style of            4   … Ann leaves the house, she gets her bag ready.
                         language.                                  5   We all have dinner … Dad gets home.






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