4 Match the short forms you can use in informal emails with their long forms. 1 BTW 2 TTYL! 3 Thanx 4 V a Talk to you later! b Thanks c very d by the way 5 Think about your summer vacation. Make notes in the table. Useful language Short forms are usually the first letter of each word, e.g. Laughing out loud = LOL. Sometimes short forms are written the same way they sound, e.g. See you = CU, Thanks = Thanx. the activities you did with the activities you did with your family your friends the activities you did to help other people 6 Write an email to a friend about your summer vacation. Use your notes from Exercise 5 and the expressions in the Useful language box. Write 80-100 words. Check your writing Does your email ... • include information about your summer vacation? use informal language? have correct spelling and punctuation? Useful language Hi / Hello, How are you? Let me tell you about ... Tell me about ... Write back soon. Self-Assessment Check your progress use vocabulary for summer vacation activities use the past simple tense use a flow chart to solve problems use adverbs of frequency to talk about the past use informal language in an email I can do this I need more practice UNIT 1 15