Session 9

SESSION 9: ELECTRONIC MAIL Objectives 1. Learn the vocabulary of electronic mail in English 2. Set up an email account 3. Send emails with attachments, to multiple recipients etc.. Estimated time: Two 50’ minute periods

Previous questions: 1. Have you got an email account? 2. How often do you send emails? 3. If you don’t have an email account, you must set one. There are free email accounts on the Web. Some of the most popular are : www.hotmail.com / www.gmail.com/ www.edu365.cat

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ACTIVITY 1 Put the E-mail term next to the correct definition To:

Send

Subject

Cancel

Cc:

Attachments

Message

Save

Spell Check

Bcc:

draft

1.the main part of an email where you write the information you want to communicate 2.click here to send your message 3.the line where you write the title of your message 4.the cc line;the line where you write the email addresses of other people who want to receive your message 5.the blind copy line; an address here gets a copy of the message, but other recipients don’t know 6.click here to specify the file you want to attach and send with the message 7.the line where you write the email address of the person you are sending your message to 8.click here to save your unfinished message without sending 2

it 9.click here to cancel your message 10.click here to check the spelling of your message

ACTIVITY 2 EMAIL READING Emails have a symbol, “@”. In English it is read “at” EMAIL DICTATION  Listen to your teacher dictate some email addresses and write them down

 Dictate your email address to your partner

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Go around the class and ask five or six students to tell you their names and email addresses. Ask the teacher too. Write the information on the email list below.

Email List Names

Email addresses

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ACTIVITY 3: SEND AN EMAIL Write a short profile of yourself on a document. Save the document. Then write an email and send it to the recipients of your list above (and to the teacher too) so that they don’t know who you are sending your email to. Attach the document to it.

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