BAHASA INGGERIS TINGKATAN 4

Class: Form 4
Activity: Letter Writing

Duration : 1 hour
Teacher Elen Marlina Mohd

FULLBLAST TEXTBOOK

Unit 8a:
Page: 117

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Read letter and understand the main idea.
2. Understand the main vocabulary used in the text.
3. To write letter of advice given.

LEARNING STANDARD:

Main skill:
Reading 3.1.2
Understand specific details and information in extended texts in a wide range of familiar
topics

Listening 1.1.6
Understand independently longer simple narratives on a wide range of familiar topics

Writing 4.3.4
Express and respond to opinions and common feelings such as amusement, anger and
regret

SUCCESS CRITERIA:

I can:
1. State the tasks.
2. Layout the vocabulary (difficult words) appropriately.
3. I can write letter of advice independently after reading the sample given.

FULLBLAST:PAGE 117
LETTER:LET’S READ IT

1. OVERWHELMED VOCABULARY CHECK
2. WORRIED 6. GENERAL
3. REVISION 7. ADVICE
4. PERIOD 8. COPE
5. UNFAIR 9. PSEUDONYM

VOCABULARY CHECK

1. OVERWHELMED- KETERLALUAN 6. GENERAL- UMUM
2. WORRIED- RISAU 7. ADVICE- NASIHAT
3. REVISION- ULANGKAJI 8. COPE- MENGATASI
4. PERIOD-TEMPOH 9. PSEUDONYM-NAMA SAMARAN
5. UNFAIR- TIDAK ADIL

LETTER WRITING:

What must in a letter?

-greeting
-Opening paragraph
- Main part (1-2 paragraphs)
- Closing paragraph
- Sign in off

A. DISCUSS.
-Do you read advice columns in magazines? Why? Why not?
- Do you think the advice they give Is useful? Why? Why not?

Suggested answers:
Yes, I do because I find them interesting and sometimes
even get answers for similar problems to mine.

No, I don’t interested in other people’s problems or the
problems discussed are not serious.

Suggested answers:
I think it is useful because they sometimes give you ideas
that you haven’t thought of or tell you about places and
people you can go to more professional help.

No, I don’t think it is useful because the person answering
does not know you as a person and the advice he/ she gives
is too general.

B. Read the letter below, which a girl wrote to an advice
column of a magazine. What advice would you give her?

Suggested answers:
Who’s ‘Troubled In Bogor’?
-The girl who is writing the letter.

What is the girl’s problem?
-She hasn’t got enough time to study and do her hobbies as well as she wants.

How was she been feeling about the exams that are coming up?
-Overwhelmed

What does the girl think is unfair?
-That’s she, unlike her cousin is given homework during the exam period.

What does the girl’s mom said?
-That she should give up her hobbies.

What is the girl asking Agnes to tell her?
-She asking Agnes to tell her how she can find time for everything without feeling
she’s not doing her best.

C. Read the advice given to the girl and compare it to the
advice you would give her. Do you think Agnes’ advice is
helpful?

• How does Agnes think the girl feels?
Anxious and exhausted.

• What should the girl try first?
To reassure her mother that she can cope with everything.

• How can the girl meet her mother halfway?
She can cut down on the time spent on her hobbies without
stopping them completely.

• What is also likely?
That her friends feel the same way.

• What is Agnes’s advice?
To meet her friends after school so that they can help each
other.

# What can they study at her friend’s house?
One subject each time.

# How will studying with her friends help her feel?
Better and more supported.

# What does Agnes point out to the girl?
That University isn’t way, so this experience will make life less
stressful in the future.

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LETTER:LET’S PLAN THE LETTER

D.Read this letter that Afan wrote to an advice column of a magazine and write back to him giving him advance

# Increase your intake of fruit and vegetables
# cut out fatty food altogether
# don’t cut out meat and carbohydrates just eat smaller quantity
# eat smaller meals more frequently
# don’t have a heavy meal before you go to bed at night
# if you are hungry between meals have a healthy snack
# lead a move active lifestyle
# walk or cycle to work
# take the stairs not the lift



SAMPLE ANSWERS OF LETTER OF GIVING ADVICE



Now, it’s your turn…

END OF CLASS