英语A1 · 写作：实用的简短信息
英语 A1 知识点 16 2:46 英语旁白 · 英中内嵌字幕
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A useful short message does one job: it makes the reader do something.
有用的短信息只做一件事：让读的人去做某事。
A note on a table, a text to a parent, a message to a teacher: same skeleton, five parts, no wasted words.
桌上的便条、发给家长或老师的消息，骨架相同：五个部分，一字不浪费。
A message is a hand, not a story. It reaches out and hands something over, so the action comes first or second, and the story, if there is one, comes never.
短信息是一只手，不是一段故事：伸出手，把东西递过去。
The skeleton has five parts. The greeting names the reader: Hi for friends, Dear for teachers and adults. The purpose tells why you write, in one line. The details carry the facts: day, time, place. The request is the hands of the message: please bring your card. And the sign-off signs it: Thanks, Lin, when you asked for something, Best, Lin, when neutral. Every part is one line, and the whole message takes thirty seconds to read.
骨架五部分：称呼（朋友用 Hi，长辈用 Dear）、目的（一句话）、细节（日期时间地点）、请求（请对方做什么）、落款（有请求用 Thanks，中性用 Best）。 每部分一行，整条信息三十秒读完。
The punctuation kit is small. The full stop finishes a statement, the question mark asks, and the exclamation mark shows energy; use it rarely. Capital letters start sentences and names, the days and the months, and the word I, always.
标点工具很小：句号收尾、问号提问、叹号表情绪（少用）；大写字母管句首、人名、星期、月份和 I。
The sentence i am late is wrong three times over; I am late, with its capital and its full stop, is right in three.
i am late 错三次，I am late. 对三次。
Three messages you will really send. Running late: Dear Mr Wang, sorry, the bus is late, I will arrive at 8.50, can you wait for me, please? Lin. Borrowing a thing: Hi Mei, can I borrow your blue pen for the test today, I will give it back after class, thanks, Lin. Changing a plan: Hi Grandpa, we will come on Sunday at ten, not nine, is that OK, love, Mei. Each carries all five parts, and each question can be tiny: Dinner at 7, with a question mark, does the asking.
三条真实会发的信息：迟到（对不起 + 新时间）；借东西（今天测试能借你的笔吗，课后归还）；改计划（周日十点不是九点，可以吗）。 五部分齐全，问句可以很短：Dinner at 7? 一个问号就完成请求。
Watch out for three traps. Do not start with the story: today the bus was full and... loses the reader before the point; the point lands by line two. Do not drop the greeting and the sign-off: they are the message's clothes. And learn the small time words as fixed pairs: at seven, on Sunday, in May. Three words, three jobs, never swapped.
三个陷阱：别从故事开头（要点必须在第二行前落地）；别脱掉信息的外衣（称呼和落款）；时间小词各司其职：at 7、on Sunday、in May，三对固定搭配，从不互换。
Check yourself. Name the five parts of the skeleton in order. Write the running-late text to your teacher in two lines. Fix the capitals in thanks, see you on monday. And which mark turns Dinner at 7 into a question: the question mark, of course. If the skeleton comes without counting, your messages are hands.
自测：按顺序说出骨架五部分；两行写出给老师的迟到短信；改大小写（See you on Monday）；问号如何把 Dinner at 7 变成提问。 不用数就能写出骨架，你的信息就是伸出的手。