NO. 03 · WRITING

Write an Email

The email task is short enough that improvisation feels possible and tight enough that it usually fails. This workbook replaces improvisation with a seven-minute plan, a skeleton for each type of email, and enough drills to make the shape automatic.

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TIME PLAN
7 MIN
DRILLS
24
SECTIONS
5
EVALUATOR
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What it is

THE SHORT VERSION

Four teaching sections and twenty-four drills, all in one browser page. The teaching half covers the seven-minute method, the email types you are actually asked to write, the skeleton each type follows, and a grammar check for the errors that cost the most in this task specifically.

The drill half is where the work happens: you fill slots, build the sentence, then compare side by side against a model response. An evaluator scores what you wrote and hands the feedback back immediately, so a practice round takes minutes rather than waiting on a teacher.

Who it's for

HONEST FIT
  • Test-takers who write fluent English socially but freeze when the register has to be semi-formal.
  • Anyone who runs long on the email task and leaves the last request unwritten.
  • Writers whose emails are polite but vague — the reader finishes unsure what was being asked.
  • Teachers who want drillable email practice with model responses attached.
Register is the quiet failure in this task. The recipient is usually someone you know but are not close with — a professor, an administrator, a colleague. Too casual and it reads as careless; too stiff and it reads as translated. The skeletons are built around that middle band.

The seven-minute plan

TEST-DAY ORDER

The order is fixed so that no minute is spent deciding what to do next. Reading and planning come first and stay short; the drafting block is protected; a final pass is reserved rather than hoped for.

01
Read the prompt
Identify who is being written to and exactly what they need from you.
02
Pick the skeleton
Match the situation to its email type, and the structure is already decided.
03
Draft into the slots
Fill the frame rather than composing from a blank screen.
04
Check before sending
A short fixed pass for register, verb forms, and whether every request actually made it in.

What's inside

FIVE SECTIONS
  1. Strategy — the seven-minute method and the order to use on test day.
  2. Email types — the situations that recur, and how each changes the ask.
  3. Skeletons — a reusable frame per type, slot by slot.
  4. Grammar check — the errors that cost the most in this task.
  5. Evaluator & 24 drills — write, score, compare against the model.
Open the workbook
Strategy, skeletons, 24 drills, and the evaluator. Free with an account.
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