Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Letter Writing

　

Dimension targets for KS2:
To develop an ever-improving capability to use English
  • to exchange messages such as writing simple letters (ISc)
  • to interpret and use given information through processes or activities such as matching, sequencing, describing, classifying and to follow instructions (KSb)
  • to give expression to one's experience through activities (ESd)
    　

Learning objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills
- letters

N.A.
- use formulaic expressions to begin and end a letter

- Reading
- Writing

　

　

　

　
- develop sensitivity towards language use in the process of communication

- communication skills

Related Basic Competencies:
L3-R-5-P6BC: Using a range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts with the help of cues (IS, KS, ES)
L3-W-3-P6BC: Writing and/or responding to simple texts with relevant information and ideas with the help of cues (IS, KS, ES)
　

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1

An interactive activity: A Letter to a Friend

Learners get familiar with formulaic expressions and their positions in a personal letter.  

15

Part 2

An interactive activity: What is Different?

Learners distinguish the difference between an informal letter and a formal letter.
　

 15

Part 3

An interactive activity: A Letter to the Principal

Learners recognize the layout and formulaic expressions of a formal letter.

15

 

Part 4

A classroom activity: A Letter from a Pen-friend
Learners read a letter and write a reply.
　		 30