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Make a polite request, include all five practical details, and finish with thanks and your name. The model uses “Could you” and “please”.
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A note for a neighbour
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A note for a neighbour · A1. Make a polite request, include all five practical details, and finish with thanks and your name. The model uses “Could you” and “please”.
Plan your message, write it, then try a follow-up situation. Compare with the model and checklist; your wording can be different.
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A note for a neighbour
Plan your message, write it, then try a follow-up situation. Compare with the model and checklist; your wording can be different.
You are going away from Friday to Monday. Your neighbour Sam can help with your plant. Write clear, friendly messages. You may invent your name and the key location.
A little clarity first
Organise the message
Are the ideas in a clear order, with an opening and ending suitable for this task?
Check clarity and language
Can the intended reader understand your meaning? Recheck verb forms, reference words, spelling and punctuation.
Learning material
WritingA1
A note for a neighbour
Plan your message, write it, then try a follow-up situation. Compare with the model and checklist; your wording can be different.
You are going away from Friday to Monday. Your neighbour Sam can help with your plant. Write clear, friendly messages. You may invent your name and the key location.
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Plan your note to Sam.
Write 20–35 words of planning notes. Include Sam, Friday to Monday, your plant, watering on Saturday, and a key location.
Your learning route
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Step 1 · Build the skill
0/1Fulfil the task
Make a polite request, include all five practical details, and finish with thanks and your name. The model uses “Could you” and “please”.
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Step 2 · Build the skill
0/1Organise the message
Are the ideas in a clear order, with an opening and ending suitable for this task?
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Step 3 · Build the skill
0/1Check clarity and language
Can the intended reader understand your meaning? Recheck verb forms, reference words, spelling and punctuation.
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A1A note for a neighbour
Lesson points
Fulfil the task
Make a polite request, include all five practical details, and finish with thanks and your name. The model uses “Could you” and “please”.
Organise the message
Are the ideas in a clear order, with an opening and ending suitable for this task?
Check clarity and language
Can the intended reader understand your meaning? Recheck verb forms, reference words, spelling and punctuation.
Questions & answers
Opening an answer records help for that question.
Plan your note to Sam.
Write 20–35 words of planning notes. Include Sam, Friday to Monday, your plant, watering on Saturday, and a key location.
Answer & explanation
Sam; away Friday to Monday; one plant by the kitchen window; water it on Saturday; key in an envelope by your door. Thank Sam for helping.
This is one possible response, not the only correct answer. Include the neighbour’s name, when you are away, the plant, the watering day and where the key is. Short notes are acceptable here.
Now write the note to Sam. You are away from Friday to Monday.
Write 45–65 words. Ask Sam to water your plant on Saturday. Say where the plant and key are. Include a greeting, thanks and your name.
Answer & explanation
Hi Sam, I am away from Friday to Monday. Could you water my plant on Saturday, please? It is by the kitchen window. The key is in an envelope by your door. Thank you for your help. Please call me if you cannot find it. See you on Monday! Alex
This is one possible response, not the only correct answer. Make a polite request, include all five practical details, and finish with thanks and your name. The model uses “Could you” and “please”.
Your plans change: you will return on Tuesday, not Monday.
Write 35–55 words to Sam. Explain the new return day, ask Sam to water the plant once more on Sunday, and thank Sam.
Answer & explanation
Hi Sam, my plans are different now. I am coming home on Tuesday, not Monday. Could you water the plant once more on Sunday, please? Thank you for looking after it. I am sorry about the extra work. Alex
This is one possible response, not the only correct answer. State the changed return day, ask for one extra watering on Sunday, and thank the neighbour. Do not repeat the old Monday return as the current plan.