{"id":"study-spanish-formal-email-register","audience":"high-school","category":"writing-feedback","technique":"examples","track":"study","title":"Check the formality of your Spanish email","free":false,"task":"For AP Spanish, you wrote an email to a host family's grandmother, which must be formal (usted). Get exactly 4 numbered lines, one per sentence, each labeled exactly Formal or Informal using Señora Vidal's guide, then the word that decides it in quotes, plain text. Don't rewrite any sentence.","materialLabel":"Your email and the teacher's guide (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"AP SPANISH - Sra. Vidal - Correo formal (practice for the email task)\n\nTASK: Write to Doña Elena, your host family's grandmother, to thank her and ask a question. Use FORMAL register (usted).\n\nSRA. VIDAL'S GUIDE:\n- Formal: usted / ustedes forms, su (your), le (to you), Estimada/Estimado\n- Informal: tú forms (verbs ending in -s like tienes, quieres), tu (your), te, Querida/Hola\n\"One informal word breaks the whole register. Find it yourself.\"\n\nMY EMAIL (4 sentences):\n(1) Estimada Doña Elena:\n(2) Muchas gracias por su invitación a la cena del sábado.\n(3) ¿Tienes una receta de tu famosa paella?\n(4) Le agradezco mucho su amabilidad.\n\nAP exam is in May. Practice email due Friday.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking it to check","why":"The AI corrects the email for you, so you don't practice finding the register slip.","fix":"Say: \"Don't rewrite. Just label each sentence.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not giving exact labels","why":"Without fixed labels, the AI gives a general review of your Spanish.","fix":"Say: \"Label each sentence exactly Formal or Informal.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not asking for the deciding word","why":"A label alone doesn't show you which word broke the register.","fix":"Add: \"Quote the word that decides it.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not saying how many lines","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more lines than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Fix the shape: \"label, then one quoted word.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it will be read","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in your notes.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives exact labels","patterns":["formal.{0,15}informal","label"]},{"label":"Uses the guide","patterns":["guide","vidal","usted"]},{"label":"Says not to rewrite it","patterns":["(don't|do not|no|never|not).{0,20}(rewrite|rewritten|replacement|re-?write|write it for)","keep.{0,20}(my|own) words"]},{"label":"Asks for the deciding word","patterns":["quot","which word","deciding"]},{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,25}line"]}],"hint":"Give the AI the two labels, your teacher's guide, ask for the word that decides each one, and tell it not to fix anything.","rubricLabels":["Each line uses exactly one label, Formal or Informal, for sentences 1 to 4 in order","The labels are: (1) Formal, (2) Formal, (3) Informal, (4) Formal, and line 3 quotes 'Tienes' or 'tu'","Gives no corrected or rewritten sentences (for example, no 'Tiene' or 'su' replacement)"]}