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.
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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: SQA National 5 English | Critical reading Inferring meaning from what is implied by the writer. |
| Wales: WJEC GCSE in English language 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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