Personal Email (A1)

• Has your email got a subject line (= einen Betreff), which summarizes the content of the email (= der den Inhalt deiner Mail zusammenfasst): subject: XYZ

• Has the email got a greeting (= eine Begrüßung), followed by a name and a comma (= gefolgt von einem Namen und einem Komma)?

  • Hi Jane,

  • Hello (again) Joe,

• Skip a line (= überspringe eine Zeile) after the greeting.

• Spelling:

  • Does the first line of the email start with a capital letter (= Großbuchstabe)

  • Do all sentences start with a capital letter?

  • Do all names of people, places, days and months start with a capital letter?

  • Did you write the word “I” with a capital letter?

• Do you have an introduction (= Einleitung)? For your introduction, you can ...

  • thank your friend for his or her email: Thanks for your email. It’s great to hear from you. = Danke für deine E-Mail. Es ist schön, von dir zu hören.

  • ask your friend how he or she is and tell him or her how you are: How are you? I’m fine. = Wie geht es dir. Mir geht es gut.

• Does the email answer all questions you were asked? (= Beantwortet die Mail alle Fragen, die dir gestellt wurden?)

• Do you end your email with a question (What’s …? Have you got …? Are you …?) and some friendly words?

  • I can’t wait to hear from you. = Ich kann es kaum erwarten, von dir zu hören.

  • I’m really looking forward to seeing you! = Ich freue mich wirklich, dich zu sehen.

  • Let me know if you need anything else. = Lass mich wissen, wenn du noch etwas brauchst.

• Skip a line before the closing.

• Does the email end with a closing, for example:

  • Bye for now,

  • See you soon,

  • Cheers,

  • Common mistake: Greetings, is NOT an English closing.

• Did you sign (= unterschrieben) your email?