Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.8 New Year’s Day emails
Level
**
Language focus
Email, simple present tense
Skills focus
Reading and writing
Thinking focus
Producing and inventing
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Individual work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Photocopy or make an overhead transparency of the text. See
Box 79.
Procedure
1 Tell the class that a pen pal from Australia has written to them, asking
them about how they celebrate the New Year. Show them the text from
Box 79.
2 Ask them to write a brief reply. Useful sentence stems from the email are
in bold. Encourage the children to use these sentence stems in their reply
email.
Note: If you prefer, you could jointly construct a class email reply. In this
case, you ask the children to make suggestions and you write these on the
board. Then, together, you make corrections and think about ways to
improve the email.
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