Writing: Writing Semi-Formal Emails

18 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Recycling Vocabulary: flash cards. All Sts were asked to write the word on the whiteboard. The class gave the definition, the student said a sentence with the word that was somehow related to his/her life, (family, or friends). Vocabulary: tuition fees, trainee, grant, dismiss, unemployed, employee, graduate, postgraduate, etc.

2) Checking homework: B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, all exercises on page 24.

3) Group work activity: Sts had to group several strips of paper into 1) a formal letter, 2) a semi-formal email and 3) an informal email, and then to put the strips into the right order. The different styles were discussed.

4) Group work activity: Sts were given a copy of a semi-formal email as an example of a good email and a copy of a bad email. Sts then compared the two emails and tried to discover the rules of writing a good email.

5) Homework: Write a semi-formal email to an information centre of your imaginary holiday destination asking for any information you would like to know. (Approximately 150 words).