Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

In this lesson, we're going to talk about an introduction to email writing.

So I have email writing here, but this is email writing especially for business or for other formal situations.

We're going to talk about the format, the general format of an English email,

and we're going to talk about some patterns that you

can use maybe to explain yourself or to introduce an idea and so on. We'll see a few examples.

So let's get started. All right. First I want to take a look at the general format, the basic

parts of an email, an email at least in

terms of American English business emails. Simply put, we begin with a greeting, a simple

greeting, the dear part of your letter. A greeting, perhaps then an introductory phrase or

something that introduces the purpose,

the reason you are writing the email.

Following that will be any background information or any details you need to provide to

make the purpose of your email clear.

Following that, a closing statement, something to kind of wrap up,

to show your reader, your ending the message, and then a sign-off, which is really

the final point before your name in the email. So we're going to talk about these points.

Let's look at some patterns you can use in these emails.

Let's begin with the greeting part of your email.

If you don't know the person receiving your email, you can use the expression to whom

it may concern.

This is kind of a classic line.

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