Your family is going to celebrate an occassion and your child needs a day off from school. Write a letter to the head master of the school. What the occassion is? Why it is importnat that your child attends the celebration? How your child is going to make up for the missed lessons.

Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to request a day off from school for Marty
due to
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an important family gathering
this
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Tuesday. Allow me to elaborate on
this
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situation. As you may know, Marty`s father, Emmet, is working for the space company as a technical consultant. Two weeks
ago
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he was honoured to be invited on a mission to the International Space Station
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this
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Tuesday
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Tuesday,
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he is coming back home.
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why we are preparing a warm welcome party. My son is extremely proud of his father and always looks after him. He is so excited to
finally
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meet his hero. Marty spent days preparing a song as a present and looking forward to being at home when Emmet arrives. We fully understand that Marty has to catch up on the missed lessons. We will ask his friend Jessica to bring his books and homework assignments
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I will make sure that
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child
will do
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them
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the weekend. Look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards, Daulet Tumbayev.

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coherence cohesion
Break the letter into small parts. Use a new short paragraph for each main point (the reason, the plan to catch up, and the closing note).
task response
Be clearer on why the day off helps the child and what the school can do to help with work. Add a quick plan to make up work with specific days or tasks.
tone
Polite and formal tone
content
The letter states the day off and the plan to catch up on work
structure
Opening and closing are present
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Dear
  • Headmaster
  • I
  • am
  • writing
  • to
  • ask
  • for
  • one
  • day
  • off
  • for
  • my
  • child
  • due
  • to
  • a
  • family
  • occasion
  • Our
  • family
  • will
  • celebrate
  • our
  • grandmother's
  • birthday
  • This
  • is
  • an
  • important
  • time
  • for
  • us
  • to
  • be
  • together
  • and
  • show
  • our
  • love
  • The
  • child
  • will
  • make
  • up
  • missed
  • lessons
  • homework
  • notes
  • from
  • the
  • teacher
  • classmates
  • read
  • set
  • reading
  • complete
  • tasks
  • write
  • a
  • short
  • summary
  • return
  • on
  • time
  • weekend
  • contact
  • information
  • Thank
  • you
  • for
  • your
  • understanding
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