Turning down a promotion: a delicate email to a manager
Jack declines a management role but proposes an alternative. Students analyze tactful professional email, then write a difficult work email.
C2Adults50 minEmail
About this lesson
A C2 writing lesson (email). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Jobs & work
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Matching
- Key words
- talk someone through, be touched, after considerable reflection, put simply, squeeze out, play to your strengths, along the lines of, whenever suits you
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Analyze how a professional email declines an offer while protecting a relationship
- Use tactful, diplomatic phrasing to refuse, explain and propose
- Write a 280–320 word email for a sensitive work situation