Refer to the additional materials “Lesson 6 Cover letter model to cut up and be reordered”. Distribute one copy per person/pair.
Depending on the level of the students, this may take 10-20 minutes. Encourage them to apply the structure introduced and to employ the phrases in the guidance. Students who finish early could assist other students, or swap letters and give advice on improvements, and praise examples of good language usage.
Speak in pairs.
Refer to handout “Lesson 6 Horrible jobs”. Photocopy the sheet and make sure there are enough copies of each job for each pair to have one job, either A or B. Divide the class into pairs. Give half the pairs (.e. half the class) a copy of one job to apply for, and the other half the other job. They work in pairs to write a cover letter that’s ‘better’ than the other students’ letter(s). Set a time limit of e.g. 10-15 minutes and then the pairs who have job A swap with the pairs who have job B. Then, all the students in one group confer and decide who should be awarded the job on the basis of the cover letter alone. This could also be done as homework. Alternative homework is for students to write a cover letter for a job they could actually apply for.
Regarding these materials, each pair of students (or individual, depending on what Alla prefers) will need the Word file labelled 'to cut up' and the text cut up and paperclipped together. Thanks. In addition, each student will need either job A or job B of the 'horrible jobs' Word file please. That activity can be done at home if there's insufficient time in class, or done in class and the students write their own 'serious' one as homework.