This document provides a lesson plan for teaching letter writing. The objectives are for students to be able to compose a letter based on a familiar topic. The lesson plan introduces letter writing and its purposes such as thanking, inviting, or exchanging ideas. It includes showing students a letter model and discussing the address, greeting, body, closing, and signature. Students are then guided to write their own letter using the introduced format and components of a good letter.

1. How to teach letter-writing
:Prepared by
Mohamed Ramadan

2. " Letter-writing Time " lesson plan
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson Ss should be able to:
* compose a written text (a letter) based on a familiar topic.
Letter-writing aims ultimately at:
•improving social skills – saying "thank you", sending an
invitation, offering help or support, ………etc.
•asking for information – formally or informally.
•exchanging ideas and opinions.
•writing about some personal experience.
Warm up:
1.discuss letter-writing focusing on personal experience,
reasons, advantages, feelings, form, expressions, ……...
2.show the class a real model of a letter (on a wall sheet,
overhead projector or data show) and encourage Ss to talk
about what they see.

3. " Letter-writing Time " lesson plan
Presentation ( Introduce letter-writing )
( Using the model of the letter )
•show Ss the address and how and where to write it.
•refer to the date of the current day to be written under the address.
•point to the word "Dear" referring to its position and telling its meaning.
•read the greeting sentence, tell Ss how the letter begins, give and elicit
more similar sentences to be written at the beginning of a letter.
•ask Ss to read the body of the letter and tell what the topic is,
•give and elicit more topics and suggested sentences to be written
instead.
•read the final sentence, tell Ss how the letter ends, give and elicit more
similar sentences to be written at the end of a letter.
•point to the word "Yours" referring to its position, telling its meaning
and what to be written under it "the name of the sender"

4. " Letter-writing Time " lesson plan
Finish the lesson:
by
reminding
Ss
with
the
components of a good letter.
by reminding Ss with how to write
each component.
by asking Ss to write another letter
at home after specifying the
information needed for doing that.