WRITING - CONNECT PRIMARY 5 Term 2 - خامس ابتدائي

UNIT 9 LESSON 4 4 WRITING 1 Read Amir's email. What's his favorite unusual animal? ←→ From: Amir To: Tamer Subject: Unusual animals Dear Tamer, Thanks for your email. How are things? It was really interesting to hear about the sports you like. I love basketball, and I play on a team once a week. This week we're talking a lot about unusual animals at school. We looked at animals from around the world and some from Egypt. My favorite unusual animal from Egypt is the dugong - can you see the photo? I think it's got a lovely friendly face and it's very cute! Its nickname is the sea cow and it spends many hours eating grass from the sea bed every day. What about you? What's your favorite unusual animal? Write back and let me know. Hope to hear from you soon! Amir 2 Read again and answer T (True) or F (False) 1 Tamer called Amir and they talked about sports. 2 Amir doesn't like sports. 3 Amir wants to talk about wildlife. 4 He sends a photo to Tamer. 46 5 Amir says that dugongs are also called sea cows. 6 He wants Tamer to write back. ×

Tip! Writing an email 1 Begin your email with Dear or Hi and the person's name. 2 Say why you are writing. Use phrases like I'm writing to tell you that... 3 Give one idea in a paragraph and expand on it - look how Amir mentions the dugong, then describes it. 4 When writing to a friend, you can use informal language, e.g. words like awesome and cool, contractions like I'm, and phrases like How's life? and How are things? 5 End your email with phrases like Write soon, Hope to hear from you soon, See you soon, All the best, or Bye for now, and then your name. 3 Find examples of 1-5 in the Tip! box in Amir's email 4 Complete the email phrases 5 things note best soon 1 See you 2 How are 3 Just a quick 4 All the ! Write an email of 30-40 words to a friend about an unusual animal. Use Amir's email and the Tip box! to help you. Remember: ■ write about what the animal looks like, where it lives, and what it eats. ■ask your friend about his/her opinion. ■ try to use phrases from Exercise 4. UNIT 9 47