Week+7+Writing

**English ** **//Letter writing //** 1. Read the excerpt from BBC Bitewise - the letter layout is slightly different to how we do it in NZ. Remember here we 'flush' the address, date and salutation to the margin. 2. Complete the activity below to practise identifying the layout and language required for writing a formal letter of complaint. media type="custom" key="8678386" 3. Draft a letter of complaint or opinion to either the local council, Government, Police, Environment Canterbury, or a letter to the editor of the local newspaper in response to an article printed. This may be on any topic that you feel is relevant or significant to you at the moment.

__**Some ideas: **__ - Over the last few weeks I have noticed a huge number of people on bikes without helmets. I would write a letter of complaint to the police detailing my concerns about safety, reasons why I think it is happening, what I think should be done about it - suggested actions that need to be taken. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">- I found the letter below (a letter to the editor, published in the Dominion Post) this may be a good start to writing a letter in response to this letter giving your opinion about how we should define a hero. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 19px;"> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">4. Write your draft letter in the back of your homework book or a piece of refill, proof-read and edit it, ensuring all spelling, grammar is correct and your use of language and paragraph structure is clear to the reader. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">5. Get a family member to read it and give you some feedback. Publish your final copy on a Word document or in handwriting on refill. (You will have to source the postal address for your letter, if you need any help, post a note on the 'Holler Space' page to ask me where you could find the address.) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">6. Bring your published copy to class. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">