Starting and ending emails PDFs, tips and lists of useful language. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Updated 19 January 2021
E-book with opening and closing emails activities
Teaching Emailing: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 300 photocopiable pages on writing all kinds of formal and informal emails, including over 60 pages specifically on opening and closing emails)
Articles on opening and closing emails
100 common mistakes with starting and ending emails– NEW
Lists of useful language for opening and closing emails
The 100 most useful phrases for starting emails
The 100 most useful phrases for ending emails
Worksheets just about opening and closing emails (greetings, first lines and final sentences)
Closing lines for different kinds of emails
Opening and closing formal and informal emails jigsaw game
Opening and closing emails brainstorm and match formal and informal phrases (a simpler but less fun version of the worksheet above)
Use the starting and ending emails phrases
Opening and closing emails which phrase is more common? (to stop students using rare and old fashioned phrases)
Opening and closing emails phrases The same or different (with typical confusions)
Opening or closing emails simplest responses game (listening and trying to spot which are which – a bit easy, but a good warmer)
Worksheets mainly about opening and closing emails
Emailing Differences in meaning and formality
Classify, rank and remember the email phrases
Match the beginnings and endings of email phrases
Use and continue the common emailing phrases
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