{"id":33464,"date":"2025-03-18T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/?p=33464"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:16:46","slug":"avaluating-formal-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/matildes24-25\/24-25english6e\/avaluating-formal-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"AVALUATING FORMAL LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you know, we are trying to find an <strong>Irish<\/strong> school that wishes to start a <strong>pen-pal project<\/strong> with us so we can learn about their customs while practicing English.  We realized that we needed the head teacher permission and we had to adapt the language in our letters. After learning the conventions of a <strong>formal letter<\/strong>, we organized in groups and started to write our letters following the instructions given. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was quite tricky as we had to have not only the <strong>grammar<\/strong> and <strong>spelling<\/strong>, but also the <strong>tone<\/strong> into account.  All in all, it was a very interesting and meaningful activity that offered a precious opportunity to put all the language we have learned so far into practice. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-de-2025-03-18-19-03-06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-de-2025-03-18-19-03-06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33465\" style=\"width:217px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-de-2025-03-18-19-03-06.png 413w, https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Captura-de-pantalla-de-2025-03-18-19-03-06-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now, with our texts ready, it was the moment to <strong>analyse<\/strong> them to write together the <strong>final version<\/strong>.  We reflected on the characteristics of <strong>formal letters<\/strong> and, following a <strong>checklist<\/strong>, we assessed each of the texts we wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We read attentively all the texts and we were able to select the most <strong>accurate sentences<\/strong> to express our ideas.  <strong>Assessing texts<\/strong> in such a way not only enables us <strong>enrich<\/strong> our <strong>vocabulary<\/strong> , but promotes an awareness of language traits that are benefitial not only for the learning of English but also of Catalan and Spanish.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-content\/uploads\/usu1957\/2025\/03\/Copia-de-Collage-Horizontal-Vacaciones-de-Verano-Colorido-Beige-Verde-Azul.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, we are trying to find an Irish school that wishes to start a pen-pal project with us so we can learn about their customs while practicing English.  We realized that we needed the head teacher permission and we had to adapt&hellip;  <a href=\"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/matildes24-25\/24-25english6e\/avaluating-formal-letters\/\" title=\"Read AVALUATING FORMAL LETTERS\">Llegeix m\u00e9s\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24-25english6e"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33467,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33464\/revisions\/33467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/escolamartamata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}