Jo Benn-Day 13/02/2022 C 1 - Advanced 60 mins
Lesson Type:
Business English - Writing
Lesson Topic:
Constructing A Business Email
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able By the end of the lesson, students will have…
to…
Consider several relevant phrases to construct a - Become familiar with how to use English phrases to
business email to make enquiries and or construct a business email
arrangements. - Have practiced speaking and be able to phonetically
pronounce all phrases used.
- Constructed a basic business email using key
phrases
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Motivation 1. Students may be under pressure to produce English
presentations / articles at work and therefore the students and
2. Fatigue the teacher need to prioritize the topics and areas of learning
in-order-to alleviate the pressure where reasonably possible
3. Sentence structure: Japanese follows an SOV or Subject- helping to improve motivation.
Object-Verb sentence order. Learners tend to make
mistakes in forming basic English sentences. 2. Many of these students will have families and other external
factors which affect both their attendance and attention, trying
to encourage them to attend as often as they can and providing
copies of the lesson / PowerPoints electronically provides
them with an opportunity to catch up when they have time.
3. Present examples where-ever possible and ask students to
peer mark to help identify and correct this learning area
Target Language Analysis
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, Students need to be aware that certain words have contain silent letters such as the ‘k’ In ‘know’ in the above
table. Other email phrases may also contain silent letters within words; however, none are included in the table
above.
Students need to observe the punctuation used in the business email template provided for the first
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