LESSON
4 Creating and Using an E-mail Account
Materials
Needed:
- Flip
chart paper or board and markers/chalk
-
Computers with Internet access
- Text:
Internet English: WWW-based communication activities, by
Christina Gitsaki and Richard Taylor, Oxford University Press (2000).
- Web
Sites: http://www.hotmail.com
(Other sites that offer free e-mail accounts.)
You may want to preview the Internet sites that offer
free
e-mail accounts and anticipate any questions that students may
have
when they register online for a free account.
You should make
it clear to the learners that opening an e-mail account is optional. No
one is obligated to open an account. Also, when opening an account,
they can input fictitious personal data if they choose for the purpose
of protecting privacy.
Word Bank:
Internet, e-mail, message, online, register, account,
user, user name, login name, password
Introductory Activity
- In the
previous activities, you looked at finding the information you need on
the Internet. Today you're going to use the Internet to send and
receive e-mail messages.
- What is
e-mail? What does the “e” stand for? Has anyone used e-mail? If so,
what for?
- Now
let's look at an e-mail message. At the top of page 10 in the
Internet English textbook, you'll see an e-mail message.
- Read
the e-mail message. Who is it from? Who is it to? Why is the person
sending the e-mail message?
Draw
learners' attention to the smile symbol (p. 10, next to "See you") and
have students guess or explain what it means and why it is used.
Activity 1: Setting Up an E-mail Account
- In this
activity, you can set up a free e-mail account for yourself so that
you can send and receive messages.
- Turn to
p. 11 in the Internet English textbook. Read through the
instructions on this page.
-
Complete the exercises on p. 11 (A, B, C, D, and E). When you finish
them, you will have signed up for a free e-mail account with a Web
site you have chosen.
If learners are
using Hotmail, you can suggest that they click on the boxes marked
"Hotmail Member Directory" and "Internet White Pages" to remove the
checkmark in them, so that students will
not
be added to the mailing lists associated with these directories.
Activity 2: Sending E-mail Messages
- Now
that you have set up an e-mail account, you can send messages to your
classmates.
- Turn to
p. 12 in Internet English. Look at the message format at the
top of the page. What button do you click on to send a message? How
can you save a copy of your message?
- Look at
p. 13 in Internet English. If you are working in a group,
complete Exercise A by asking five or six other learners for their
names and e-mail addresses.
- Choose
one person from your list and send a short e-mail message to that
person.
- When
you have received an e-mail message, click "Reply" and send a response
to the message.
Writing Expansion: