Materials
Main Aims
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To provide process writing practice of an email to a friend.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed reading of a sample of an email.
Procedure (37-47 minutes)
The teacher opens a discussion with the students about different websites and how we use them. The teacher focuses on Yahoo and Gmail and asks the students if anybody has a mail and how he uses it.
The teacher provides the students with a sample of an email and asks them to read it and compare it with their own emails if they are alike or not and what are the differences.
The teacher starts to discuss with the students the email that they have read and clarify for them the right way of writing an email to a friend, its components and the language that they should use. Because it's an email for a friend, so they should use informal language and contractions. Then, the teacher discusses some examples with his students.
The teacher asks the students to write an email to their friend to tell him about the trip that they're going to on their holidays with their families and ask him to join the trip. The students should use the form and the language that they have discussed with the teacher.
The students exchange their emails to check and correct them for each other. The teacher monitors and writes down any errors that he has noticed and discusses them with the students on the board after finishing their conversations.