Emailing rotating revision board game

Emailing rotating revision board game

Arrangement

email(s) your

partner says no

to.

Email(s) with

offers that

your partner

says yes to.

Email(s) with

offers that

your partner

says no to.

Negative

email(s) with

acceptable

reasons.

START

Different email

opening greetings

(right at the start).

Arrangement

email(s) your

partner says yes

to.

Write your name in or put a counter on the

first square.

Do the challenge of the square you are on.

Your partner will agree or disagree, reply to

your email, check if it is correct, etc. Continue

doing that challenge until you make a mistake

or do it correctly 6 times. Move clockwise the

number of squares of your correct answers,

e.g. 4 squares if the 5

th

thing you said was

wrong. The winner is the person who has

moved most around the board when your

teacher stops you.

Other rules:

- You must stop the 1

st

time you make a

mistake (so it is possible to stay on the

same square)

- You can’t move more than six squares

- If your square says “email(s)”, you could

include all the requests, enquiries, etc in

one email or spread them over up to six

emails. If it is one, you get one point for

each right answer in that email starting

from the first, until one wrong answer, e.g.

two points if they can’t answer your third

question.

- If you land on a square that someone has

already done, you can copy what was

said before if you like (although some

things may get different reactions).

Useful language for playing the game
“That sounds right.”/ “I think that’s okay.”
“How many points (did I get)?”
“You can move zero/ one/ two/ … square(s).”
“It’s my turn.”/ “It’s your turn.”

Different email

opening lines

(after “Hi John”

etc).

Emailed questions

your partner can’t

answer.

Different opening

lines for replies to

emails.

Emailed questions

your partner can

(really) answer.

Opening lines for

1st emails/ on a

new topic.

Emailed with

requests your

partner says no

to.

Opening lines

when the last

contact was not

by email.

Request email(s)

your partner says

yes to.

Different ways of

starting group

emails.

Email

abbreviations and

meanings.

Informal/ friendly

ways of starting

emails.

Email phrases

with the same

meanings but

different formality.

Formal ways of

starting emails.

Medium-formality

ways of ending

emails.

Medium-formality

ways of starting

emails.

Informal/ friendly

ways of ending

emails.

Ways of

mentioning

attachments.

Formal ways of

ending emails.

Email closing lines

(before “Yours

sincerely” etc).

Ways of writing

your name at the

end of emails.

Email closing

greetings

(before

name).

Closing lines

for negative

emails.

Closing lines

when a reply

isn’t needed.

Closing lines

when the next

contact isn’t email.

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Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2021. Over 300 pages of emailing materials at:

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