English Paper 2
Letter types includes:
Business or official letter (for making enquires, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies.
Letter to the editor (giving suggestions on an issue)
Application for the job)
Marks Distribution:
Format-2 Marks
Expression-4 marks
Content-4 marks
A formal letter has the following parts.
Sender’s Address
Date
Addressee’s address
Salutation
Subject
Body of the letter (content) (preferably in three or four paragraphs)
Complementary ending
Sender’s signature & name
Note: Formal letter must be written in fully blocked format as per CBSE curriculum.
Format
Sender’s address
Date
Addressee’s address
Dear Sir/Mam
Subject: ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Body of the letter
Your’s faithfully / sincerely
Signature
Name
(i) Letter to the Editor ( a letter to the editor could be written to:)
Express an opinion
Complaint against a social problem
Refer to the situation/viewpoint that you wish to highlight
If it is a social problem the three major areas to be included are- causes of the problem effects of the problem solutions to the problem conclude politely
Sample:
Q. Write letter to the Editor of a newspaper suggesting how the problem of begging can be ended. You are Sumit of Civil Lines, Kanpur
Civil Lines
Kanpur
20th January ‘2011
The Editor
The Hindustan Times
New Delhi
Subject: Regarding the problem of begging & how it can be ended.
Sir,
I shall feel obliged if you kindly public the following few lines ‘Letters to the Editor’ column of your esteemed paper.
Some beggars, no doubt, deserve our sympathy. They are handicapped. They are unable to earn their living. But the pity is that most of the beggars are able-bodied. Begging has become a profession for them. They find it the easiest way to earn their living. Some of them are criminals. They beg
Business or official letter (for making enquires, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies.
Letter to the editor (giving suggestions on an issue)
Application for the job)
Marks Distribution:
Format-2 Marks
Expression-4 marks
Content-4 marks
A formal letter has the following parts.
Sender’s Address
Date
Addressee’s address
Salutation
Subject
Body of the letter (content) (preferably in three or four paragraphs)
Complementary ending
Sender’s signature & name
Note: Formal letter must be written in fully blocked format as per CBSE curriculum.
Format
Sender’s address
Date
Addressee’s address
Dear Sir/Mam
Subject: ………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Body of the letter
Your’s faithfully / sincerely
Signature
Name
(i) Letter to the Editor ( a letter to the editor could be written to:)
Express an opinion
Complaint against a social problem
Refer to the situation/viewpoint that you wish to highlight
If it is a social problem the three major areas to be included are- causes of the problem effects of the problem solutions to the problem conclude politely
Sample:
Q. Write letter to the Editor of a newspaper suggesting how the problem of begging can be ended. You are Sumit of Civil Lines, Kanpur
Civil Lines
Kanpur
20th January ‘2011
The Editor
The Hindustan Times
New Delhi
Subject: Regarding the problem of begging & how it can be ended.
Sir,
I shall feel obliged if you kindly public the following few lines ‘Letters to the Editor’ column of your esteemed paper.
Some beggars, no doubt, deserve our sympathy. They are handicapped. They are unable to earn their living. But the pity is that most of the beggars are able-bodied. Begging has become a profession for them. They find it the easiest way to earn their living. Some of them are criminals. They beg