- Ask students what kinds of activities they did at the very beginning of the pandemic, the COVID lockdown time. Give examples to model, add student responses to presentation as models for language in the coming activity

- Show students my email sample. Ask them to read it quickly to answer - what it is about? What is its purpose? Who is it for?

- Display the email with labeled sections. - Clarify the words "recipient" and "sender" - Ask students to spent 90 seconds matching the parts of the email with their name. - Display answers, ask if students have any questions. - Ask: Is this email formal or informal? How can you tell?

- Greeting - Introduction sentence - Body - Question - Closing - Signoff

- Display instructions: Write an email to someone in your family. Tell them what you are doing at the beginning of the COVID lockdown, March 2020. - Questions to check activity understanding: Will you write to family? (yes) Will this be formal or informal? (informal) Will you tell your family about what you did last weekend? (No) Will you tell them about what you are doing during the beginning of lockdown? (yes) - Send teacher presentation jamboard in the chat for students to reference language - Send google doc to write on: 10 minutes for independent writing

- Display peer feedback checklist. Tell students they will share their writing with a partner. They should use the checklist, looking for all the parts of the layout. They should also give any general comments or ideas to their partner. - Ask if students have any questions about the language in the checklist - Remind them they don't need to correct grammar in every sentence - 5 minutes BORs - circulate to monitor and support as needed