Read the following situations and decide whether they call for formal or informal language.

1) a note to your mom to say that practice will be late

2) the report you have to write for history class

3) the journal entries you make at the end of each day

4) the room was dusty because no one had lived in the house for ages

5) the essay you are writing for English class

6) notes in your science lab book

7) a newspaper article about an escaped criminal

8) a note to your mom about whose house you're going to visit