1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:05,370 Now it's time to get into the meat and potatoes of this course section. 2 00:00:05,970 --> 00:00:10,650 In this lecture, I'm going to teach you exactly how to go ahead and write an introduction. 3 00:00:11,430 --> 00:00:17,370 Writing the introduction for the general letter is generally straightforward. 4 00:00:18,270 --> 00:00:24,960 However, you must meet the requirements, and that requirement involves stating the purpose of the 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:25,620 lecture. 6 00:00:25,890 --> 00:00:33,660 So now I'm going to show you how to do that when you are writing an introduction, there are a couple 7 00:00:33,660 --> 00:00:37,980 of points I want to mention before we get into the actual writing process. 8 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:41,760 Your job is to state the letter purpose. 9 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:46,500 They always tell you exactly why you are writing that letter. 10 00:00:47,250 --> 00:00:51,900 Now you want to state that purpose in your introduction sentence. 11 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:55,830 The key thing is to say it in your own words. 12 00:00:55,830 --> 00:00:59,400 Don't copy the information they give you. 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,340 Try your best as best as you can. 14 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,130 Try to paraphrase that information. 15 00:01:06,930 --> 00:01:10,350 Next, I want you to pay attention to your sentence structure. 16 00:01:11,340 --> 00:01:13,590 Sentence structure is really important. 17 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,840 I think it's a great idea to write a compound or complex sentence to start. 18 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:27,870 I think it's a great way to impress the examiner right away and put into their mind that they're dealing 19 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:30,360 with somebody that has talent. 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,840 Make sure that you don't blend in. 21 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:42,180 The first discussion point I've seen this happen with a lot of students and the first discussion point 22 00:01:42,210 --> 00:01:43,950 gets its own paragraph. 23 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:46,440 It does not belong in the introduction. 24 00:01:48,630 --> 00:01:50,610 In regards to time management. 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:57,330 You're going to be in 2 minutes on your introduction discussion point one 4 to 5 minutes. 26 00:01:57,630 --> 00:02:00,420 Discussion point two 4 to 5 minutes. 27 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,570 Discussion point three, 4 to 5 minutes. 28 00:02:03,870 --> 00:02:09,150 And then of course, you can have you should be able to write your conclusion in less than a minute. 29 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,910 Your total writing time, I think, should be between 14 and 17 minutes. 30 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,290 You need more time for task two. 31 00:02:21,070 --> 00:02:25,690 Task number two is worth double the points of task number one. 32 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,990 Task one is worth 33%. 33 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:31,920 Task two is worth 66%. 34 00:02:32,290 --> 00:02:37,810 So you can't overdo it on task number one and ruin your score for task number two. 35 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,510 Whatever you get for task number two is added twice. 36 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:49,500 So it's really important that you finish up task number one, get a great score and have a lot of time 37 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:50,580 for task number two. 38 00:02:53,210 --> 00:03:01,250 So in terms of your essay structure, your introduction, like I said, is 1 to 2 sentences, discussion 39 00:03:01,250 --> 00:03:06,650 point number one, 2 to 3 sentences, discussion point to 2 to 3 sentences. 40 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,670 And then discussion point three to 2 to 3 sentences. 41 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:18,950 So now we're going to work together. 42 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:20,990 We're going to work together. 43 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,940 We're going to go over the method and strategy for writing an introduction. 44 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:29,390 So I want you to set a timer for 2 minutes. 45 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:37,460 You're going to review the outline that I give, or you can use your outline, and then you're going 46 00:03:37,460 --> 00:03:42,290 to write your introduction and then compare your introduction to mine. 47 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:49,880 Now, the only way you can really compare your introduction to mine is if you're using the outline information 48 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,140 that I give you. 49 00:03:52,010 --> 00:03:57,410 And really, for the introduction, you just have to pay attention to the first statement that they 50 00:03:57,410 --> 00:04:00,500 make in terms of why you are writing the letter. 51 00:04:00,860 --> 00:04:04,160 You're not going to get into the discussion points at all. 52 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:10,490 So really, pretty much we should have the same introduction, the same information. 53 00:04:10,970 --> 00:04:18,440 So what you're going to be looking at is how I structure the information and how I make sure that I 54 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,040 always have the purpose within my introduction. 55 00:04:22,340 --> 00:04:24,830 So let's go ahead and get started. 56 00:04:27,570 --> 00:04:30,630 So here is our first question. 57 00:04:31,610 --> 00:04:37,970 Your local council is considering closing a local sports and leisure centre that it runs in order to 58 00:04:37,970 --> 00:04:39,020 save money. 59 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:41,510 Write a letter to the council explaining. 60 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:50,330 Now, as I said in the introduction, we are not talking about discussion point one, two or three. 61 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:53,180 We are not talking about that information. 62 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,790 There should be no mention of our details that were that were going to use in the introduction. 63 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,620 Okay, so set your timer on 2 minutes. 64 00:05:04,190 --> 00:05:05,710 Stop the lecture. 65 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,760 I'm not going to stop the lecture for 2 minutes. 66 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,380 You stop the lecture and go ahead and write your introduction. 67 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:13,970 Starting now. 68 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:19,060 Okay. 69 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:20,590 Let's have a look at my introduction. 70 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,180 Dear Sir or madam. 71 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:31,750 This well considered letter regards your erroneous thought towards shutting the doors of our beloved 72 00:05:31,750 --> 00:05:34,600 local sports and leisure facility. 73 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:36,070 Right. 74 00:05:36,070 --> 00:05:45,880 So here you can see you can see that I have the purpose of the letter there. 75 00:05:46,420 --> 00:05:52,480 This letter is in regards to them shutting the doors of the local sports and leisure facility. 76 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,220 Here is our second example. 77 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,130 Go ahead. 78 00:06:06,060 --> 00:06:08,100 Set your timer for 2 minutes. 79 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,080 Stop the lecture. 80 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,540 Write your introduction now. 81 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:20,190 And here is my introduction. 82 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:30,360 My family and I plan to relocate to a new country and require expert assistance to apply to expert assistance 83 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,300 to acquire lease property in the area. 84 00:06:34,350 --> 00:06:39,690 Right there we have a standard well written introduction. 85 00:06:39,870 --> 00:06:42,060 I'm using a compound sentence. 86 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:48,170 And that's going to help my grammar score and impress the examiner right away. 87 00:06:49,070 --> 00:06:53,420 In blue, you can see that I have the purpose of the letter. 88 00:06:54,680 --> 00:07:01,130 When a person reads your introduction, they should be able to immediately capture the purpose of the 89 00:07:01,130 --> 00:07:01,730 lecture. 90 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:07,900 Here's our next example. 91 00:07:08,230 --> 00:07:14,680 One of your friends had a birthday celebration, but you missed it and you forgot to tell your friend 92 00:07:14,710 --> 00:07:16,150 that you couldn't attend. 93 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:20,920 Remember, do not discuss any of the discussion points. 94 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,180 Don't talk about any of the discussion points. 95 00:07:24,190 --> 00:07:27,400 None of them don't mention any details. 96 00:07:28,210 --> 00:07:31,510 We only are going to focus on the purpose. 97 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,110 All right, set your timer for 2 minutes. 98 00:07:35,140 --> 00:07:36,660 Stop the lecture. 99 00:07:36,670 --> 00:07:38,800 Write your introduction now. 100 00:07:43,910 --> 00:07:44,150 Okay. 101 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:49,100 Here is my dearest friend Mark. 102 00:07:49,730 --> 00:07:54,110 I heard through the grapevine that your birthday was out of this world. 103 00:07:54,740 --> 00:07:55,750 A year older. 104 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:56,690 A year better. 105 00:07:56,690 --> 00:07:57,410 Right? 106 00:07:57,830 --> 00:08:00,110 Man, I neglected to tell you. 107 00:08:00,110 --> 00:08:01,250 I could make it. 108 00:08:03,050 --> 00:08:06,860 Now, when he reads this introduction, he can get that. 109 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:12,980 The purpose of what I'm talking about in the letter is to explain why I could not make it. 110 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,530 Now, this is an informal letter. 111 00:08:15,740 --> 00:08:16,480 So you hear. 112 00:08:16,490 --> 00:08:21,170 You see language like I heard it through the grapevine. 113 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,840 Your birthday was out of this world. 114 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,970 A really technically incomplete sentence. 115 00:08:26,990 --> 00:08:31,370 A year older or a year better is just a statement or a phrase. 116 00:08:31,730 --> 00:08:38,000 So when you have an informal letter, you can do more of that type of writing. 117 00:08:44,610 --> 00:08:45,990 Our next example. 118 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:53,400 Write a letter to your manager about a computer system problem that you have encountered and say, describe 119 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:54,350 the problem. 120 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,150 How is it affecting your work? 121 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,440 What needs to be done about it? 122 00:08:58,710 --> 00:09:03,900 Remember, we're not going to discuss point one, two or three. 123 00:09:04,380 --> 00:09:06,060 Only the purpose. 124 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:08,610 Set your timer on 2 minutes. 125 00:09:09,150 --> 00:09:10,530 Stop the lecture. 126 00:09:10,890 --> 00:09:13,020 Write your introduction now. 127 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,950 Here is my introduction. 128 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:28,500 Dear Mr. Williams, I know you usually don't hear from me. 129 00:09:28,710 --> 00:09:36,930 However, today I must inform you of the severe and debilitating problems resulting from my desk PC 130 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:38,430 in blue. 131 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:45,240 I've stated the purpose and I'm using higher level vocabulary debilitating. 132 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:49,410 I'm using a complex sentence form again. 133 00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:53,790 My job is to impress the examiners. 134 00:09:57,710 --> 00:09:58,450 All right. 135 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:00,500 Let's move into another example. 136 00:10:01,010 --> 00:10:06,980 Write a letter to your friend about your plans to go out with him or her and another friend on a small 137 00:10:06,980 --> 00:10:07,790 picnic. 138 00:10:08,490 --> 00:10:08,720 Right. 139 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:15,470 Remember, we're not going to talk about our details or any of the discussion points. 140 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:18,620 Go ahead and set your timer on 2 minutes. 141 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:20,570 Stop the lecture. 142 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,550 Write your introduction now. 143 00:10:26,630 --> 00:10:27,140 All right. 144 00:10:27,140 --> 00:10:31,590 And here is my introduction, dear Will. 145 00:10:31,730 --> 00:10:32,610 Hey, Will. 146 00:10:32,630 --> 00:10:37,370 It's that time of year again when we have our annual get together. 147 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:41,150 And this year we've decided on a traditional American picnic. 148 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,960 So we need to discuss our program right there in blue. 149 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,230 You can see I have the purpose of the letter. 150 00:10:48,350 --> 00:10:56,660 I'm doing a compound sentence and you can see that I can use more colloquial language like get together 151 00:10:56,900 --> 00:10:58,520 and you will get together. 152 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:02,450 So this is how you want to write an introduction. 153 00:11:02,660 --> 00:11:07,730 Make sure that you show quality writing and state the purpose. 154 00:11:10,810 --> 00:11:14,380 And now let's move into our last introduction example. 155 00:11:14,890 --> 00:11:16,980 You did a bus tour with other people. 156 00:11:16,990 --> 00:11:19,810 However, you were not satisfied with the bus service. 157 00:11:20,020 --> 00:11:25,780 Write a letter to the bus company about your journey and say What was the problem? 158 00:11:25,780 --> 00:11:30,610 What the problem was, why you were not satisfied suggest improvements. 159 00:11:33,330 --> 00:11:35,220 Set your timer on 2 minutes. 160 00:11:35,610 --> 00:11:36,900 Stop the lecture. 161 00:11:37,890 --> 00:11:40,080 Write your introduction now. 162 00:11:45,610 --> 00:11:46,080 Okay. 163 00:11:46,090 --> 00:11:48,310 And here is my introduction. 164 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,200 To whom it may concern. 165 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:54,250 Again, I'm writing to a company, so I have no idea. 166 00:11:55,430 --> 00:12:02,900 This complaint letter concerns the bus trip our company embarked upon with your professionally recognized 167 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:03,920 bus company. 168 00:12:05,450 --> 00:12:12,650 Now, here, I'm not using a compound or complex sentence, but I am writing a sentence with no B verbs. 169 00:12:12,650 --> 00:12:14,330 There are no weak verbs. 170 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:25,490 No is our was were have has having had b am have being none of those weak basic level words. 171 00:12:26,950 --> 00:12:28,750 You want to show quality. 172 00:12:29,170 --> 00:12:37,540 So even if I'm not writing a compound or complex sentence, I still want to show great technical skill. 173 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:44,300 But here in blue, you can see that I've stated the purpose of the letter. 174 00:12:44,810 --> 00:12:46,550 That's all you have to do. 175 00:12:46,580 --> 00:12:49,790 Make sure you state the purpose of the letter. 176 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:52,960 All right. 177 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,460 Thank you so much. 178 00:12:54,850 --> 00:13:00,640 I hope you now know how to write your introduction the way the examiners expect to receive. 179 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:10,590 In our next lecture, we will be writing the discussion points and then you can hear some examples from 180 00:13:10,590 --> 00:13:15,480 the live classes that we do from time to time on the general letter. 181 00:13:15,510 --> 00:13:17,140 Thank you so much. 182 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:23,730 Have a fantastic day and I will be sure to talk to you very, very soon. 183 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:24,540 Take care.