Songkran water festival: an email to a friend abroad
Holly tells her friend Ella about Songkran, Thai New Year, and invites her to visit. Students write an email about a festival in their country.
A2Teens40 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
- Teens
- Time
- About 40 minutes
- Topic
- Celebrations & festivals
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Matching, True / False, Gap-fill
- Key words
- celebrate, relatives, pour, stranger, water fight, stall, Why don't you…?, Write back soon
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Describe what people do at a festival with the present simple
- Write an informal email with a clear opening, an invitation and a friendly ending