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E-Mail Task: Giving Feedback To Your Peers: Teacher: Patrik Frei Writing A Formal Email

This document provides instructions for students to evaluate sample emails and provide feedback to their peers. Students are given a checklist to evaluate whether their partner's emails follow task guidelines, are properly structured as formal emails, and are written in appropriate formal language. For any missing or inadequately completed elements, students note suggestions for improvement. The checklist is then used to give feedback and help improve writing formal emails.

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E-Mail Task: Giving Feedback To Your Peers: Teacher: Patrik Frei Writing A Formal Email

This document provides instructions for students to evaluate sample emails and provide feedback to their peers. Students are given a checklist to evaluate whether their partner's emails follow task guidelines, are properly structured as formal emails, and are written in appropriate formal language. For any missing or inadequately completed elements, students note suggestions for improvement. The checklist is then used to give feedback and help improve writing formal emails.

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Teacher: Patrik Frei Writing a formal email

E-mail task: Giving feedback to your peers


Evaluate your partner’s e-mails by using the checklist below. For elements that are missing or that your
partner did not complete adequately, make a note on how he/she can improve these things. When you have
evaluated the e-mails, sit together with your partner. You now give each other feedback with the help of your
checklist.

E-mail #1
Part A: Has the author followed the task guidelines?
Tick the boxes below if the author of the e-mail has included the elements in question. Write your suggestions
for improvement in the table below.

The author of the e-mail


explains how she got the contact details
states his/her reason for writing
requests general and specific information about the product and asks how it compares to a similar product

My suggestions:

Part B: Is the piece of writing structured according to the rules of a formal e-mail?
Tick the boxes below if the author of the e-mail has included the elements in question.

The author of the e-mail has included


a subject line
a salutation
an opening sentence
a main body
a closing sentence
a signoff

Part C: Is the e-mail written in appropriate formal language?


Go through your partners e-mail and check whether you detect any informal expressions. In case of doubt,
refer to the handout from the previous lesson about appropriate language in formal e-mails. Write your
suggestions for improvement in the table below.

My suggestions:
Teacher: Patrik Frei Writing a formal email

E-mail #2
Part A: Has the author followed the task guidelines?
Tick the boxes below if the author of the e-mail has included the elements in question. Write your suggestions
for improvement in the table below.

The author of the e-mail


thanks the customer for getting in touch
gives information on the product and on alternatives
highlights the benefits of each option
lets the recipient know that he/she can contact the company again for further information

My suggestions:

Part B: Is the piece of writing structured according to the rules of a formal e-mail?
Tick the boxes below if the author of the e-mail has included the elements in question.

The author of the e-mail has included


a subject line
a salutation
an opening sentence
a main body
a closing sentence
a signoff

Part C: Is the e-mail written in appropriate formal language?


Go through your partners e-mail and check whether you detect any informal expressions. In case of doubt,
refer to the handout from the previous lesson about appropriate language in formal e-mails. Write your
suggestions for improvement in the table below.

My suggestions:

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