| Scan the following model covering letter and the guidelines for formatting a covering letter (p. 7-9), and check your answers to Exercise 1.COVERING LETTER
Presentation
| When you send a CV to an employer, you should include a brief covering / cover letter.
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Study the example of the covering letter below and say what information a typical covering letter includes.
Scan the following model covering letter and the guidelines for formatting a covering letter (p. 7-9), and check your answers to Exercise 1.
| Covering letter (noun): short letter sent with another document;
cover letter (US)
| English Covering Letter Format
1. Your address telephone - fax – email
| | Put your address + your telephone number, fax and/or email address at the top in the centre OR on the right.
| 1. Your address telephone fax email
| | 2. Date
| · 5(th) (of) October(,) 2014 (British English)
· October (the) 5(th), 2014 (American English)
Do not write the date as numbers only, for two reasons:
1. It can be considered too official and therefore impolite.
2. All-number dates are written differently in British English (31/12/99) and American English (12/31/99). This can lead to confusion.
| | 3. Destination name and address
| Ms / Miss / Mrs / Mr / Dr ... company street place area code COUNTRY (in capital letters)
This should be the same as on the envelope.
| | 4. Reference
| This is the reference number or code given by the employer in their advertisement or previous letter. You write the employer's reference in the form: 'Your ref: 01234'. If you wish to include your own reference, you write: 'My ref: 56789'.
| | 5. Salutation (Dear...)
| A letter in English always begins with 'Dear...', even if you do not know the person. There are several possibilities:
· Dear Sir
· Dear Madam
· Dear Mr Smith
· Dear Mrs Smith
· Dear Miss Smith
· Dear Ms Smith
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| salutation
| when to use
| | Dear Sir or Madam
| esp. in British English
| | Ladies and Gentlemen
| esp. in American English
| | To whom it may concern
| esp. in American English
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