Off sick: an email to your manager about a doctor's visit
Oliver emails his manager because he is ill; students analyze the email's parts, learn polite set phrases and write their own sick-day email.
A2Adults35 minEmail
About this lesson
An A2 writing lesson (email). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- A2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 35 minutes
- Topic
- Health & medicine
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Matching, Multiple choice, Gap-fill
- Key words
- a temperature, a sore throat, an appointment, health centre, medicine, pharmacy, urgent
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Understand a semi-formal email about illness
- Use set phrases for polite work emails (I'm afraid, Could you ...?)
- Write an email explaining that you are ill