Follow-up Emails
ESL Lesson PlansFollow-up Emails

Follow-up Emails

This ESL lesson plan targets adults at the B2 level, focusing on follow-up emails in a 60-minute individual session. The lesson emphasizes both reading and writing skills through structured tasks, including discussion questions for job interviews, reading comprehension activities, and constructing follow-up emails. Students will learn to articulate their thoughts effectively in their correspondence, ultimately improving their professional communication skills.

Skills

  • Can compose letters conveying degrees of emotion and highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences and commenting on the correspondent’s news and views.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Brainstorm.

1
Think of 3 questions you would like to ask a potential employer after a job interview.
2

Look at these points and decide if they relate to what you should do before or after the interview.

3

Read the article.

4

Mark the statements as true or false.

5

Unscramble the words to make sentences you can use in your follow-up email.

6

Look at the sample email and fill in the gaps.

7

Writing.

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