Email writing

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/lesson-plans/email-writing

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This lesson aims to teach or revise the rules of writing emails in English by studying the differences between formal letters, and informal and semi-formal emails.

Level - Intermediate and above

The main focus will be on writing semi-formal emails, and the students will send an email to a tourist information centre of their choice using the rules they will have studied in the first half of the lesson. I have done this lesson several times myself and although not all of the students received replies from the information centres they emailed, most of them did, which in itself gave them much satisfaction.

The lesson is suitable for intermediate students and above, although if simplified could be adapted for use with lower levels.

http://www.ryerson.ca/studentservices/els/pdf/Writing%20Emails%20and%20Letters.pdf