Free A2 (Elementary) ESL lesson plan — 45 minutes of speaking activities, conversation questions and Formal Greetings and Closings grammar practice for online English classes. Student can write formal business emails with proper greetings and closings.

A2⏱ 45 min

Writing Professional Business Emails

🎯 Goal: Student can write formal business emails with proper greetings and closings

📐 Formal Greetings and Closings

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#email#formal#greetings

📋 Prep view— read through and plan below. Teaching happens in

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🎯 Click hotspots to explore vocabulary in context

Let's talk about emails! Most of us write them every week.

“How many emails do you write each day?”

“Do you like writing a formal message or a friendly one?”

“Imagine you get an urgent email at night. What do you do?”

“What is the hardest part of writing an email in English?”

“Do you always add a signature to your emails?”

Fresh topic questions — none repeat until you have seen them all

🎲 Speaking Activity 1

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Picture Discussion

Look at the picture and answer my questions. Say what you see and think.

6 minutes

🗣️ “In the picture I can see...”

QUESTION 1 / 5

Who is the person in the picture?

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Sell It!

Sell this idea to me in about one minute. Be friendly and use good reasons.

6 minutes

🗣️ “You should try this because...”

🏷️ YOUR PITCH

A new app that writes a perfect signature for you.

Convince your teacher to buy it. Big claims welcome!

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Writing Professional Business Emails

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