Show a sample holiday a family photo (real or fictional) and say: "This is my family on holiday can you guess who is who?" Invite SS to guess roles (e.g., sister, cousin, parents). Ask SS: "Do you have like this on your phone?" Who is in it?", "Do you have aby family members who live in other countries?' Encourage short pair or small group discussions. Let them compare family sizes, where relatives live, and which languages their family members speak. Ask again SS: "Do you think it's easy or difficult to have family in different countries?' Open class discussion

Ask SS to look at pictures of key vocabulary items from the email: husband, daughter, holiday, teacher, office, American, Russian, speak, photo Have SS to match each word to the correct picture to check understanding. Have SS to fill in the blanks with those words based on the dialogue.

Ask SS to look at the title (e.g., "An Email from Maria") and the photo if provided. Have them predict who Maria might be and why she is writing this email. Ask SS to discuss in pairs what people usually write about in family emails -e.g., family members, jobs, holidays, places they live. Encourage SS to think about cultural differences in families- size, how often they meet, or live close/far.

Ask SS to read Maria's email quickly for general understanding. Provide a multiple-choice task with four possible summaries (A-D) about the email. Instruct SS to choose the best summary. Ask SS to compare answers in pairs and discuss why they chose their answers. Get a whole class feedback.

Ask SS to read the email again carefully, this time focusing on where different people live. Give them the task titled: "Read the email. Match the people and the places". Provide a list of people (e.g., Maria, Greg, Daniel, Jon, Anna, Tom, and Elizabetta, etc) and a list of places (e.g., Washington, Moscow, Mexico city, California, etc). Ask SS to underline the part of the email where they found each answer to help them refer back to the email and reinforce reading for detail. Have SS to compare their matches in pairs, discussing any differences and reasons for their choices. Conduct whole-class feedback, eliciting the correct person-place matches and checking pronunciation by having SS say full sentences like "Daniel lives in Mexico City".

Ask SS to look at the email and count how many paragraphs it has to raise awareness of the text structure. Have SS to read each paragraph again and identify the main idea of each one. Ask SS to write a short heading for each paragraph that summarizes its content. (e.g., "Maria's family photo", "Where the family lives", "Maria's brothers and their lives".

Ask SS to work in pairs and talk about their own families and how they are similar to or different from Maria's family in the email. Provide sentence starters to support speaking and personalization, e.g. In my family, we usually... It's similar to Maria's family because... It's different because... My relatives live in... We often...during holidays. Get a whole-class feedback.

Ask SS to answer these three guiding questions individually (like a writing frame or outline). Have them compare their answers with a partner and get peer ideas. Elicit synonyms or opposites on the board as needed (e.g., teacher/student, city/village, young/old, hardworking/lazy and etc.)

Have SS to write a short paragraph (5-6 sentences) about their family using the notes from the previous task. Encourage them to answer all three questions (like "What are the names and ages of people in your family?", "What do they do?", "Where do they live?") and connect ideas using linking words (e.g., First, Then, Also, Finally)

Ask SS to use a short checklist to assess their writing. As a class identify strong features and highlight them on the board. Invite some SS to reflect on what was easy and what was difficult for them.