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Updated 22 February 2022
E-book with formal and informal emailing activities
Teaching Emailing: Interactive Classroom Activities (over 300 photocopiable pages on writing all kinds of formal and informal emails, including a whole section on formality in emailing) – NEW
Photocopiable formal and informal emails classroom activities
Dealing with problems and complaints by email politeness competition (in this e-book)
Emailing politeness competition game (in this e-book)
Email abbreviations pairwork speaking (in this e-book)
Email abbreviations presentation and practice (in this e-book)
Formal and informal email opening and closing phrases jigsaw (in this e-book)
Formal and informal emails for making arrangements jigsaw texts (in this e-book)
Formal and informal emails simplest responses game (in this e-book)
Formal and informal group emails jigsaw (in this e-book)
Formal and informal phrases for the body of an email jigsaw card games (in this e-book)
Negotiating by email jigsaw text (in this e-book)
Too formal or informal for most business emails (in this e-book)
Key words for polite emails activities (in this e-book)
Emailing informal or error simplest responses game (in this e-book)
Emails dealing with problems and complaints politeness competition game
Emailing Differences in meaning and formality
Too formal or informal for most business emails
Positive and negative replies coin game (formal and informal functional language for emails review)
Classify and rank the formal and informal business emailing phrases
Classify and rank the formal and informal FCE email and letter phrases (version of the above with some changes such as more informal stuff)
Emailing Needs analysis and functional language review (including formality)
Opening and closing formal and informal emails
Opening and closing formal and informal emails jigsaw game
Emailing 1 (put the emails into order by formality) worksheets and lesson plan (my lesson on Macmillan’s Onestopenglish.com, so registration needed) – LINK FIXED
Formal and informal emails review (including game)
Formal or informal lift up the cards game (simpler version of the one above)
Too formal for most business emails (correct the outrageously formal sentences)
Too informal for most business emails (correct the correct but slangy phrases)
Making arrangements Change the formality
Formal and informal emails useful links
Formal informal emails reversi game
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