Email: Away from home

1. An email home.

Juanita, Kylie's friend, is a student from Costa Rica. Look at the pictures. Where do you think Juanita is now? Read the email and check.

From:   Juanita  <juanita@pxt.cr>
To:   Kylie <kylie@fastrack.co.au>
Date:   16 November 15:13
Subject:   hello

Hi Kylie,

How are you? I'm having fun here and I'm learning lots of English. Of course I am! There are so many places to visit and things to do. Sydney is a really nice city and the people are great. On Saturday we went inside the opera house. It was amazing, but much smaller than I imagined! Tomorrow we have a visit to the art museum. My English course is very intensive! I don't have much free time because we do six hours of class every day and we have homework every night. The other students on the course are nice, but I miss my friends, and you, of course! smile The weather here isn't very good. It's raining right now. Everyone says that the food here is great, but actually I miss food from home. My time here is going really quickly. I only have three more weeks before I come home. Write and tell me what everyone is doing. See you soon.

Love,

Juanita  smile X

2. An email.

Use the words and phrases to complete the email from Kylie to her mother.

From:   Kylie <kylie@fastrack.co.au>
To:   Jane <jminogue@mixmail.co.au>
Date:   16 December 19:17
Subject:   hi

3. Adjectives.

Can you find all the adjectives in the email? Drag them to the box. There are eight.

4. Vocabulary: Cities, study and weather.

Drag the words to the correct boxes.

5. Complete the email.

Complete the email. Use the verb in brackets in the correct form.

For example:

How are you? I'm having (have) fun here and…

From:   Juanita  <juanita@pxt.cr>
To:   Kylie <kylie@fastrack.co.au>
Date:   16 November 15:13
Subject:   hello

6. Studying in a different country.

Imagine you are a studying in a different country. Make some notes.

Where are you?
What are you studying?
What things do you like/dislike  (the city, the buildings, the food, the weather, the people, the course, etc.)?
What things from home do you miss?

7. Write.

1. Write an email.

Write an email to a family member or a friend. Use:

a) your notes
b) words and phrases from exercise 2
c) the words in bold in Kylie's email in exercise 2