Pearson ESOL |Level 1|Email Task 2

Oct 20, 2026

A model-ready writing task focused on responding to a friend’s email. The sender plans to move to Spain and wants to organise a party to invite old college friends, asking for recommendations on an appropriate venue plus ideas for food and entertainment. The document also includes clear marking criteria for content coverage of both requirements, informal email opening and closing, logical sequencing, grammar accuracy, punctuation and capitalization control, and spelling quality.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages3

Reading Time8 min

AccessFree to download

Task Requirements

Suggest a place to hold the party

Give ideas about the food and entertainment

Mark Scheme

Content and expansion

Informal opening and closing

Audience-appropriate language

Logical sequencing

Grammatical accuracy

Capitalisation, punctuation, spelling

# Pearson ESOL |Level 1|Email Task 2 You receive this email from a friend. | 口口☒ | | | | --- | --- | --- | | From
To
Subjeet | katerina@webmail.biz | | | | you@yourmail.biz | | | | Party | | | Hi
Hope you're well.
Next month I'′m going to move to Spain,and so lwant to have a party and invite
all of my old friends from college.It's been a long time since we've all been
together.
Can you help to organise the party?Where would be a good place to hold it,and
what food and entertainment should we have?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Katerina
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At | TRK EXT OVR Englsh(U.K | (8 marks) Mark Scheme | 2.1 | Offers appropriate level of detail for purpose;must
cover the two bullet points with expansion on the
topic. | 1 | | --- | --- | --- | | 2.2 | Opens and closes email with appropriate informal
phrase.
e.g.Hi(Katerina). | 1 | | 2.2 | In body of email uses language appropriate to
audience and purpose,i.e.words and phrases suitable
for an email to a friend. | 1 | | 2.3 | Email is sequenced in a logical fashion in order to
make sense to the intended audience,e.g.follows the
bullet points in the task. | 1 | | 2.3 | Appropriate expansion of ideas in middle section. | 1 | | 2.4 | Email makes grammatical sense appropriate to
audience,e.g.correct tense,subject-verb agreement,
contracted verb form such as 'We'll have a great
time...….
No more than two grammatical errors. | 1 | | 2.5 | Capitalisation and punctuation used correctly.
No more than two capitalisation and punctuation
errors in total. | 1 | | 2.6 | Accurate spelling.
No more than two spelling errors. | 1 |

FAQs

What must the email reply include?

It must suggest a place to hold the party and give ideas about the food and entertainment.

How is the email supposed to start and end?

Use an appropriate informal phrase, such as an informal opening like “Hi (Katerina)” and a suitable closing.

What are the main criteria in the mark scheme?

Marks consider covering both bullet points with enough detail, using appropriate informal language, logical sequencing, grammatical accuracy with no more than two errors, correct capitalisation and punctuation with no more than two errors, and accurate spelling with no more than two errors.

Oct 20, 2026

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