A1 → B1 Lesson 3 of 3 · Reading Real Life: Signs, Menus, Letters

Emails and official letters

Understand a message from the school, a letter from your landlord and an email from human resources, then answer in writing.

14 min · 11 activities

In this lesson you will

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Lesson summary

The key points to remember, for revision.

1In every official message, find the request, the deadline and the consequence.
2“Au plus tard le…” = deadline; “à compter du…” = starting from.
3“Sans réponse de votre part…” announces what happens if you do nothing.
4A formal email: greeting, the information, the reason (en effet), a question, a polite closing.