Thank you for a wonderful Thanksgiving: an email to a host family
Jiwoo, a student from Korea, thanks her host family for her first Thanksgiving; students study how a thank-you email is built, practice Thank you for + -ing and useful phrases, then plan and write their own email to people who welcomed them.
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
- Thanksgiving
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Matching, Gap-fill, Table to fill in
- Key words
- host family, guest room, stuffing, pecan pie, right away, I really meant it., make someone feel at home, shipping, especially, I'll never forget...
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Write a thank-you email with details of what you enjoyed
- Use Thank you for + -ing and the past simple to describe a visit
- Organize an email into clear paragraphs: thanks, details, a request, an invitation, an ending