Lesson: Letter Writing

Last Lesson

Last lesson you learnt about how to create a 'professional' letter.  Do you remember what the features are?  Tell the students on your table.
Main:
  1. You will have completed your letter for HW, load it up.
  2. Your teacher will direct you to another computer to 'proof read' another student's letter.
  3. Use the MS Word Review Tools
  4. Your teacher will demonstrate this or you can refer to the video
  5. Review another student's work and identify and comment on the areas of the letter that are 'unprofessional' giving your reasons why.
  6. Return to your computer and read the comments, make the changes that are suggested.
Review Tools
Completing a Mail Merge:

Most businesses will want to send out a letter to many customers or people, consider Tescos writing to all its customers to sent them money off vouchers.  Writing each address would take a very very long time, so we can use a tool called a Mail Merge.

  1. Practice a Mail Merge as you teacher walks you through the stages.
  2. Download the letter and the addresses below​
complaint-letter-template.doc
File Size: 28 kb
File Type: doc
Download File
customer_addresses_one.xlsx
File Size: 12 kb
File Type: xlsx
Download File
  1. Now Mail Merge the addresses below with your own letter, use the picture guide on the right to help you.
customer_addresses_two.xlsx
File Size: 12 kb
File Type: xlsx
Download File
Mail Merge Guide
What have you learnt today?