Lesson Plan
TOPIC: Email Etiquette for Students
NAMES: Zining & Yining
Lesson Objectives:
● SWBAT identify appropriate phrases and expressions when writing emails.
● SWBAT formulate polite requests to professors in college.
Stages
Formulate Requests to professors via
emails
Pre-Stage (4 min)
-T1 elicits questions to Ss:
Have you ever sent emails to
your superior or your professor?
What did you write in your
email?
- T2 uses Kahoot to assess
students' prior knowledge of
email etiquette.
-T1 uses PowerPoint to go over
the polite sentence structures
shown in Kahoot.
-T2 asks students if they need
further explanation of specific
phrases and expressions.
Key Language forms / functions
Resources/Materials
Phrases:
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Greeting
○ I hope this email finds you
well.
○ I hope all is well.
○ We send you our best
wishes.
○ I hope you are keeping
safe(under Covid situation)
Making requests
○ Could you…?
○ Would you…?
○ At your convenience, would
you please send me…?
○ Would it be possible (for
you) to arrange an
appointment (for me)
sometime?
Closing
Kahoot
PowerPoint
During-Stage (7 min)
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- T1 gives task instructions with 3
task settings (PPT).
- requesting for sick leave
- asking for an extension
- making an appointment for
office hour.
- T2 divides Ss into 3 groups.
- Each group will write an
email with the assigned situation.
- Each group member will
formulate at least one sentence in the
email. Ss will send their email to
ziningh@upenn.edu for presentation.
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Group1 will comment on Group 2.
Group2 will comment on Group 3.
Group3 will comment on Group 1.
-T1 asks ICQ to check if S has
questions.
-T1 distributes the handout with
task instructions and a list of
phrases or expressions
-Ss can start writing emails for 6
mins.
-Ts walks around the classroom to
supervise students’ activities.
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Thanks for your time and
-Handout (with instructions and key
help.
phrases):
Thank you in advance for
Class Demo Handout
your understanding.
Thanks again! I look
-Apps for writing emails
forward to meeting with you
during office hours.
Best regards.
Sincerely, XXX.
All the best.
-T2 reminds Ss when there is 1-2
min left and asks Ss if they need more
time.
Post-Stage (4 min)
-T1 shows students’ emails onscreen
Group 1 will comment on Group 2.
Group 2 will comment on Group 3.
Group 3 will comment on Group 1.
-T1 invites students to give peer
feedback
-Ts will also give feedback for
three groups
-T2 summarizes students’
feedback on the blackboard.
-T1 leads the whole class to
review the phrases and expressions for
politeness.
Introduction:
- Teaching context: first-year students in college
- Class size: 10-15
- Age: 18-30
- Proficiency level: high-intermediate
- Focused, a real-world task (sending emails with politeness to college professors) to solve problems (making the request)
- Requires some knowledge of technology (scaffolded/modeled)