ICT 4 ELT Portals

Business letter writing

Compiled and annotated by
Lenka Lexová,
OA a VOŠ Příbram.

This portal contains links to Writing business letters that can be used by teachers and advanced students.

• Business Letter Writing

  http://www.business-letter-writing.com/

  This website this page which is dedicated to effective business communication, it is full of writing tips, advice, help and sample business letters to help teach any user how to write clear and effective business letters.

• Create your Business Letters Instantly

  http://www.business-letters.com/

  On this webpage, you can find some information how write an effective business letter, such as the main steps of writing or technical layout of a letter. Furthermore, you can find there a sample of the available business letters, which include the instruction to each type.

• Letter writing rules

  http://englishplus.com/grammar/letrcont.htm

  It is another reference where lots of useful aids for teaching writing letters can be found, besides the comments on styles and structure you can find some notes to envelopes and folding a standard letter.

• Letters and Forms

  http://www.4hb.com/letters/business-letter-format.html

  In the section letters and forms both students and teachers can find up to 600 sample letters of various type, besides that there is a form to be downloaded. If you like simple and clear things have a look at this page.

• Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Letter

  The on-line encyclopaedia is a great source where you can find practical information how to write a business letter from the beginning to the end including the rules for a good layout, different styles comparing modern British and American business letters and there are many forms and pictures, as well.

• Guide to Basic Business Letters

  http://esl.about.com/cs/onthejobenglish/a/a_basbletter.htm

  It provides the phrases usually found in any standard business letter. These phrases are used as an introduction to the content of business letters. At the end of this guide, you will find links to sites that give tips on the difficult part of writing successful business letters.

• Business English – English club

  http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/business-letters-vocabulary.htm

  It presents the basic vocabulary used in business letters, letter formats and many others, last but not least it enables the students to take a quiz on vocabulary used in writing and formatting business letters.

• Business Quiz (Letter-writing…)

  http://www.cip.dauphine.fr/riccioli/revmsg1jan06/giantbusquiz.htm

  This will be appreciated by both students and teachers as it is a Hot Potato quiz which includes 100 hot multiple choice questions to business letters writing.

• Business Letters Web Quest

  http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/webbusinesspa.html

  If you want to try something really practical try this Internet Web Quest on Letter Writing.

• The Elephant Letter – Writing Quest

  http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/webletterwmr.html#intro

  Another Internet Web Quest on Business Letters for Web Quest lovers. It itself includes some references to other useful links.