Informal Email Example

Informal emails are normally to friends or loved ones, so your language can be much more colloquial (relaxed and conversational) and you can use abbreviations.  

Informal Email Greetings: 

Hello Alex / Hi Alex / Hey Alex

Introductory Paragraph:

Sorry I haven't written for ages
Sorry it's taken me so long to write
How's it going?
How are you?
How are things with you?

How're things?
Thanks for you email
Thanks for your message

Introducing points:

By the way...
Did you hear about...
Did you see...
Have you seen...
Tell me about...

Oh, another thing...
Anyway, I wanted to say...

Ending the email:

Well, time to go
Well, it's time to go
Well, got to go
Well, time to close
I've got to leave off now
Write soon
Make sure you write soon
Love
Lots of love
All my love
Will write again soon
Look after yourself
Take care of yourself
All the best


Following on from the lesson on Thursday (2 Bach.), here is my model response to Alex's email (FCE test paper):

Hey Alex,

Thanks for your email. How´re things? I´m so excited about my visit and, yes, I'd love to go to the new activity centre with you!

I think that I’d prefer to go mountain biking, if it´s ok with you? I´m really rubbish at climbing (and a bit scared of heights) and I´m not a very good swimmer, so the sailing wouldn´t be too good for me.

I think you´re right, we will probably be exhausted on Saturday night. Maybe we could just relax, get a pizza and watch some films?

By the way, I´m not able to come on Friday because I have to babysit my sister while my parents go out. Sorry about that. Looking forward to seeing you though.

Take care,

Sarah