How to Write an Email Bundle: Vocabulary Handout and 5 Sample Scenarios

How to Write an Email Bundle: Vocabulary Handout and 5 Sample Scenarios is a great resource as it contains 5 different guides to write polite emails.

We spend so much time in the classroom teaching our students creative writing and essay writing, but when they have careers in the future, what kind of writing will occupy most of their day? Emails of course! In this assignment five specific kinds of email that high school students may need to write are high-lighted and explicitly explained.

This product contains a useful one-page handout with all the necessary vocabulary to get started with emails.

Then, 5 realistic scenarios that high school students might encounter now or in the coming years are included. For each scenario, rules of thumb are suggested, and a specific email task is assigned.

- Emailing a teacher/coach

- Emailing a job application

- Emailing a potential reference

- Emailing an apartment listing

- Emailing a postsecondary institution

How to use:

Use the handout to teach your students the key vocabulary components of every email: to, carbon copy, blind carbon copy, subject, salutation, body, signature, attachments, compose, forward, reply, and reply all. Students need to know the function of each of these printables/parts-of-and-anatomy-of">parts of the email (especially to avoid the dreaded "Reply All" mistake that we have all made once or twice).

Then, you can focus on one specific email example. Talk to your students about how in most of these cases they are requesting some kind of favour or help and therefore need to be conscientious and polite. Discuss how to choose an appropriate subject line and salutation with this in mind. You may want to write an entire sample email together as a class (perhaps typed on an interactive whiteboard). Finally, students are assigned a specific task to practice this type of email. They could write by hand on the provided sheet or type it up on their computer.

7 page PDF: One vocabulary sheet and five worksheets