2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

Writing  

9

  Using the model email, students work in pairs to 

identify some useful features common to many 

text types in English: the topic of the email 

(usually at the beginning) and discourse markers 

(words showing the relationship between ideas) 

for adding a similar idea, adding a contrasting 

idea and indicating a summary.  

 

With stronger students, you could ask them to 

think of other words with the same functions as 

those they identify in questions 2 and 3 (possible 

answers: and, in addition and furthermore for 

adding similar ideas; but, in contrast and on the 

other hand for adding contrasting ideas; in 

summary for indicating summaries).