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    This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about email conventions and arranging future plans using the present continuous tense. The 40-minute lesson involves several stages: a warmer activity to introduce future times, an email ordering activity to practice scanning and skimming, introduction and discussion of formal vs informal email styles, a comprehension activity about future plans from example emails, a diary writing and email exchange activity for students to practice arranging their own future plans, and an optional extension of correcting email errors in pairs.

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    This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about email conventions and arranging future plans using the present continuous tense. The 40-minute lesson involves several stages: a warmer activity to introduce future times, an email ordering activity to practice scanning and skimming, introduction and discussion of formal vs informal email styles, a comprehension activity about future plans from example emails, a diary writing and email exchange activity for students to practice arranging their own future plans, and an optional extension of correcting email errors in pairs.

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    This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about email conventions and arranging future plans using the present continuous tense. The 40-minute lesson involves several stages: a warmer activity to introduce future times, an email ordering activity to practice scanning and skimming, introduction and discussion of formal vs informal email styles, a comprehension activity about future plans from example emails, a diary writing and email exchange activity for students to practice arranging their own future plans, and an optional extension of correcting email errors in pairs.

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    This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about email conventions and arranging future plans using the present continuous tense. The 40-minute lesson involves several stages: a warmer activity to introduce future times, an email ordering activity to practice scanning and skimming, introduction and discussion of formal vs informal email styles, a comprehension activity about future plans from example emails, a diary writing and email exchange activity for students to practice arranging their own future plans, and an optional extension of correcting email errors in pairs.

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    Emailing 1

    Aims: Introduction to emailing / Practise of present continuous for


    arrangements / Introduction to formal and informal writing
    Skills: Scanning and skimming reading skills, writing quickly to a fixed
    format
    Resources: (PG = per group, PS = per student)
    PG: 1 x the reading text part of Worksheet 1, cut up along the
    dotted lines and shuffled
    PS: 1 copy of each worksheet
    PS: 10 to 15 pieces of small blank paper
    Time: 40 minutes (not including extension activity)

    Stage 1
    Warmer - Ordering dictation 5 – 10 minutes

    1. Dictate a list of words in alphabetical order, e.g. generous, impatient,


    intelligent, optimistic, shy. Ask the students to guess what the order is.
    2. Explain that you will continue with the same activity, but each time with the
    words in a different order. The students should stop you when they think they
    know the order.
    3. Continue with more vocabulary arranged in order of size, reverse alphabetical
    order, adjectives from positive to negative, by length of words, etc.
    4. Move onto sequences of time, e.g. days of the week, times in the past. Make
    the last list of words future times (after the lesson, next week, etc).
    5. Say that this lesson will practice talking about future arrangements and that
    the first activity is to put emails about an arrangement between two people in
    order from the first email to the last one.

    Stage 2

    Reading - Skimming and scanning 5 minutes

    1. Put the students in groups and give out the cut up Worksheet 1. Ask the
    students to put the emails in order as quickly as possible. If they need help,
    suggest finding the first and last emails and then working towards the middle,
    or point out the changes in formality (see below).
    2. When most groups have finished, check the answers as a class (see
    Answers).

    Stage 3

    Introduction to emailing conventions 5 – 10 minutes

    1. Ask students if they have questions about anything in the texts.


    2. Answer a few questions, then give out Worksheet 1 – Questions. Ask
    students to complete Question 1, referring back to the emails.
    3. Check the answers as a class (see Answers)
    4. Discuss Question 2, referring back to the emails again - they become more
    informal with time, so most of the differences are to do with formality. The
    answers are given from the most to the least formal. Re and P.S. are mainly
    written forms and attached is used for emails but enclosed for letters.
    Stage 4

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    Reading for detailed comprehension and 10 minutes
    introduction to present continuous for
    future arrangements

    1. Ask students to complete Worksheet 1, Question 3.


    2. Feedback as a class (see Answers), asking for the answers as complete
    sentences, e.g. He is flying back on Sunday 29th. If students are not sure
    which tense to use, ask them to look back at the emails.

    Stage 5

    Present continuous practice and email 10 – 15 minutes


    writing task

    1. Ask students to add in note form their own arrangements for the next seven
    days to the diary on Worksheet 2.
    2. Ask each student to give one or two examples of their arrangements, using
    the present continuous.
    3. Tell the class you are very sad that they have so many spaces in their diaries
    and by the end of class they should be full.
    4. Write an email to a student on the board inviting them out, reading it out as
    you write. Use as much of the language in Worksheet 1 as you can.
    5. Ask that student to dictate their reply back to you and write that up too. If
    more ‘emails’ are needed to complete the arrangement, do so orally.
    6. When the arrangement is fixed, make sure the student writes it on their diary
    page. This new arrangement counts as one point, and students have to send
    emails to each other to get as many points as possible.
    7. Give out the blank paper and let the students start. Monitor for errors.
    8. Stop after 10 minutes, or when every student has at least one new
    arrangement. Feedback as a class. Applaud the student who has the most
    new arrangements.

    Stage 6

    Extension: Error correction Up to 15 minutes

    1. Correct a few of the errors you collected in Stage 5, as a class.


    2. Put the students into pairs and nominate Student As and Bs. Give out the
    appropriate version of Worksheet 3 to each student.
    3. If you have time, go through the errors as a pairwork dictation. Each pair
    reads out their sentences to their partner and finds the differences. They then
    discuss which sentence is correct and correct the wrong one. They mustn’t
    show their worksheets. Then discuss as a class.

    Variation: Alternatively, give the worksheets as homework. Ask the students to


    correct their worksheets individually for homework then put them back in pairs in the
    next class to compare.

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