Online Shopping: How to Spot a Scam
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Online Shopping: How to Spot a Scam

This ESL lesson plan focuses on helping teens enhance writing skills through composing confirmation emails for online purchases. Designed for B1-B2 level learners, this 60-minute individual session guides students in structuring formal emails, verifying order details, and identifying potential scam emails. With interactive discussions, reading comprehension exercises, and a writing task, students will build confidence in email composition and formal communication for real-world scenarios.

Skills

  • Can compose basic e-mails/letters of a factual nature (e.g. to request information or to ask for and give confirmation).
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Discuss the following questions.

1
How often do you shop online and place orders through websites?
2
Have you ever had to email a store to ask for more information about a product before making a purchase?
3
Do you prefer communicating with stores through email, phone calls or in-person visits?
2

Read the text about Mike's experience placing an online order.

3

Glossary

4

Read the following emails and help Mike decide which email is a scam. Explain your choice.

5

After confirming that it was not a scam, Mike sent the following confirmation email to the online shop.

6

Answer the following questions.

7

Match the words from the text with their definitions.

8

Write a formal confirmation email.

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