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Lesson Plan Replying to an e-mail

ESOL/EFL Level: elementary/Low pre-intermediate

Learning Outcomes:

fully reply to an email using appropriate language, paragraphing and

punctuation in accordance with the email genre Discuss content to be including in each paragraph.

Begin with hangman on WB First Impressions elicit through a team game and

check understanding.

re first impressions always correct! "ey #ocabulary $ stereotype,

e%pectation.

sk $ did your first impressions of &ngland meet your e%pectations!

'tudents discuss their impressions of the (".

Feedback plenary.

Read email$ students make notes and circle new #ocab.

)each $ sights* sight+seeing e%plain compound words- show, and inside knowledge.

ut /uestions on 01 ask how can your friend afford to come to 2ondon!

'tep 3. 'tudents read email.

'tep 4. nswers to /uestions oral response-

'tep 5. 6i#e list of information needed to reply to email $ go o#er email sentence by

sentence, elicit what they need to say in their reply.

Reply ! points:

3. say how I am

4. can we meet5. dates 0"

7. lunch or show

8. sight seeing

9. inside knowledge $ tell me about 2ondon

:. what is the weather like!

;. changes new buildings etc., prices-


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E"tension activity:

1and out cut up titles $ students work in pairs to put these into order of use.

6o o#er common salutations in &nglish.

>emind students of 34 points and discuss how they could be grouped together.

4,5,7,8 ? 33 together

9,:,;,< ?3= together

'tudents work in pairs to plan reply using sentences and paragraphs

#rite reply $or %omework&

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Resources

Email $rom a $riend

'end

)o@ studentA

'ubect@ Coming to 2ondon

1i there,

I know you ha#ent heard from me for ages. 1ow are you!

6uess what! t the end of last year I entered a competition in my local newspaper

and I won two tickets to come to 2ondon, stay in a hotel and see the sights. I cant

wait. I know that you li#e in 2ondon now and I wondered if we could meet up while

Im there. Ill be in 2ondon from 33th February for one week. Eaybe we could ha#e

lunch or see a show. 0r you could show me the sights and the best places to shop. I

need some inside knowledge about the place. Is it like I imagine + all fog and rain all

the time! What is the weather like! 1a#e things changed since you arri#ed in

&ngland! Is e#eryone polite! re there any funny things that the &nglish do! Is thereanything that I should know before I come!

lease write soon and let me know when we can meet. Is there anything from here

that you would like me to bring you! Itll be so nice to see you again.

Bye for now,

2o#e......................% % %

'end sa#e now discard

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01)

2ondon!

When is your friend coming to 2ondon!

Can you meet!

When can you meet!

What sights can you show your friend!

What is the weather like!

What things ha#e changed since you arri#ed in

&ngland!

What are the people like!

re there any funny things that the &nglish do!

What do you want to tell your friend before he or

she comes to 2ondon!

What do you want your friend to bring you!

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2ist the information that you need to gi#e to reply to

your friends e+mail.

3.

4.

5.

7.

8.

9.

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Put these statements in the right order: (May be used as

jigsaw activity)

Closing comments

Comment on a friends luck

Ending salutation

Greeting Salutation

Acknowledgement of time out of contact

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