SASS EL Revision Booklet

SASS English Revision Booklet Sec 4/5 1 St Andrew’s Secondary School English Department Revision Booklet Sec 4E/5N

SASS English Revision Booklet Sec 4/5 2 Formal Letter (Proposal) Structure Formal Letter Language Name of Sender Rank, Organisation Sender’s Address Date Recipient’s Name Recipient’s position Recipient’s Address Kenny Tan President, The Eco-friendly Society 10 Amber Road Singapore 123678 16 April 2022 Mr Lee Han Hwa Principal St Andrew’s Secondary School 15 Francis Thomas Drive Singapore 359342 Greeting (Audience) Subject (Purpose & Context) Dear Mr Lee Proposed activities for Earth Day Paragraph 1 Introduction – states purpose and context of the email As the President of the Eco-friendly Society, I would like to thank you on behalf of the society’s members for giving us the opportunity to share our ideas and suggestions on how to support a cause which is important to saving our Earth. Use of modal verbs eg would to express a polite tone. Paragraph 2- BODY – Reasons and objectives and: This paragraph states reason why the writer wants to organise this campaign and states the objectives of the Earth Day campaign In support of Earth Day, the Eco-friendly Society is keen to start an Earth Day campaign on our very own school grounds to help students and teachers be more aware of the green movement and to translate this awareness into action and a change in behaviour. We would like to propose two interesting activities to meet these objectives. Sentence Variety:Use of prepositional phrase at the start of a sentence “In support of…” to show why the campaign was started. Paragraph 3- BODY – suggest first activity and elaborate using the 5W1H Point – suggest who it will involve, what kind of activity and when it will take place Firstly, we propose to engage (who)students and teachers in a (what)simple activity that is environmentally friendly on (when)22 April 2013, Earth Day itself. This should be something they would normally not do. For example, (how) students who are staying within walking distance of the school could walk to school instead of taking the bus. Students who would normally buy plastic-wrapped takeaway food could instead bring their own lunch packed in a reusable container. Teachers could turn off the air-conditioning in the staff room in the morning for an hour and Use of connectors to: -show sequence of points eg Firstly, Secondly. -provide examples eg For example

SASS English Revision Booklet Sec 4/5 3 Structure Formal Letter Language Elaboration – suggest how and where it will take place Link – describe the benefit of the activity use the fan instead. This simple activity will instil in everyone the awareness that going green is not a herculean task and we believe everyone will be encouraged to continue doing his or her part in going green. Use of modal verb eg will to show co