Finding a workable rehearsal
B1.1 · Explain a scheduling problem to a partner and negotiate a workable next step with reasons.
A2 connected messages; present and past events, near future, simple reasons and polite requests.
Model
Hola, Sara:
Te escribo porque ayer intenté imprimir el cartel de nuestro intercambio de plantas, pero la impresora del centro dejó de funcionar. La encargada cree que mañana estará reparada, aunque todavía no puede asegurarlo. Por eso prefiero que no esperemos hasta el último momento.
Podemos enviar hoy el anuncio al grupo y colocar el cartel mañana, si la impresora funciona. Otra posibilidad es hacer un cartel a mano para la entrada. Yo puedo llevar papel y escribir el horario, pero necesitaría que tú revisaras los nombres de las plantas. Así tendremos información visible aunque la reparación tarde más.
¿Cuál de las dos ideas te parece mejor? Dime también si puedes pasar por el centro antes de las seis. Si no puedes, buscaremos otra forma de revisar el cartel juntos.
Gracias por ayudarme. Un abrazo,
Leo
aunque todavía no puede asegurarlo
· The qualification keeps a prediction separate from a confirmed fact.Así tendremos información visible
· The reason explains what the alternative achieves for its audience.¿Cuál de las dos ideas te parece mejor?
· The message invites a response instead of announcing an agreement.
Task
Write an email to your project partner Dani about preparing a five-minute presentation together. Your class presentation is on Friday. You can meet on Wednesday from 17:00 to 18:00 or Thursday from 18:00 to 19:00. Dani can meet on Wednesday only after 18:30; you do not know Dani's availability on Thursday. The classroom is unavailable on Thursday, but a video call is possible. You each already have your own notes; the slides have not been combined. Dani suggested Wednesday at 17:30. Explain the difficulty, propose a workable plan for combining the slides and rehearsing, give a reason and ask for the information needed before agreeing. Do not invent Dani's answer. This is an invented case. Write in Spanish. The word range is a guide, not an automatic pass/fail rule. Use the criteria for teacher assessment or self-assessment; there is no automatic mark.
120–180 words
Planning
- Which proposed arrangement conflicts with whose availability?
- What can you prepare separately, and what needs both people?
- What question must Dani answer before your plan becomes an agreement?
Criteria
- Address Dani and explain the practical problem with the suggested meeting.
The recipient needs a reason for changing the plan.
- Keep personal availability, room availability and unconfirmed information distinct.
An attractive plan still fails if its conditions contradict the case.
- Propose a feasible plan for combining the slides and rehearsing the presentation, justify it and ask for the information needed before agreeing.
Preparing a shared presentation requires both a way to bring the slides together and a rehearsal plan whose pending conditions are clear.
- Link the problem, proposal and request clearly in a friendly email; make time references and subjects understandable.
The reader must know who can do what and when.
Review
Keep your first draft. For each criterion, quote evidence from your own text and mark evidenced, partial or not yet evidenced. Revise a weak passage and explain how the change helps this reader. If all four are evidenced, justify a specific factual or language check. Compare meaning with the guide; different wording is welcome, and matching the example does not by itself prove success.