5. English: Tackle a tricky email
Keystage: KS4
Subject: English
Resource type: Lesson
Skills: Creativity
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Dealing with a Tricky Email: In this activity, students assume the role of an Accounting Apprentice dealing with a difficult email they’ve received from their manager, Hamish. After reading the email, the students must analyse the email in detail and plan how they could respond.
Career Spotlight
Accounting Apprentice
Learning Aim
To select evidence from a text to justify a point of view.
Skills Builder Links
Creativity step 10
I develop ideas by considering different perspectives.
Curriculum Table
| England: The national curriculum (England) | Reading Pupils should be taught to understand and critically evaluate texts through seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence. |
| Scotland: The National 5 Business Management | Critical reading Inferring meaning from what is implied by the writer. |
| Wales: WJEC GCSE in business specification | Reading skills Analyse and respond to texts and their subtexts, using inference and deduction and linking ideas within or across texts. |
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