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97 Read this writing task carefully. Who are you writing to? Why are you writing? One of the Whitehall students will be staying with your family. Therefore your PE teacher has asked you to reply to Mr McGregor’s email. In your email you should:  say what your family can offer the student  give information on the sports activities at your school  explain which classes are interesting for students from England Write around 200 words. WRITING 24 a  See also Writing coach, Formal email , pp. 169 + 171. Read this reply a student has written to Mr McGregor. What information does she give on each of the bullet points above? b From: Emma Hofer <emho@email.at> To: John McGregor <John_McG@hotspot.com > Subject: Your email to Ms Beurer Dear Mr McGregor, I am referring to your email from 10 th February to Ms Annemarie Beurer, my PE teacher. Ms Beurer has asked me to answer your questions on her behalf because I have been working with her on the list of host families. I will be hosting Lizzie Nelson. As she loves animals, she will certainly not mind our two dogs. We live in a fairly large house close to Linz, so Lizzie can have a room to herself. Most students from Whitehall, however, will be sharing a room with their host brother or host sister. As I am sure you know, our school specialises in 5 ball sports. So the sports our school offers are basketball, football, volleyball and handball. The latter is quite popular in Austria, therefore it is on the curriculum of many Austrian schools. In fact, some Austrian schools have good handball teams that compete with other schools. We would be very pleased if your students would join us in class. We are involved in a project called ‘English Across the Curriculum’, which means that subjects such as history and music are taught in English. Your students are certainly most welcome to attend one of these classes. We look forward to seeing you in Austria soon. Yours sincerely, Emma Hofer Several parts of the email are highlighted to show three important features of formal emails. Can you guess what they are? Write down what you should do when writing a formal email in your own words. Underline three formal verb phrases like I am referring to … or three linking words/phrases such as therefore and use them in your own reply to Mr McGregor. 25 a b 5 to specialise in sth.: sich auf etw. spezialisieren, sich besonders intensiv mit etw. beschäftigen Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum es Verlags öbv