Writing设计意图

Module 6 Old and New

Teaching plan : Writing—Writing an email ■Goals

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To read a sample email ●To write an email about a visit to a place

■Procedures Step 1: Reading the sample email

First you are going to read the email. While reading underline all the expressions, paying attention to the organization of the email. live with…, be born in…, go there once, a beautiful valley, last weekend, visit…again, be part of…, move to…, come back, be full of…, not…at all

Step 2: Writing an email about a visit to a place

I had longed to visit Zhujiajiao for many years. So, under the hot noon sun on a weekend in early summer, I and several friends got on a bus. After more than an hour's drive our bus stopped at Zhujiajiao. As soon as we got off the bus, we bought a tourist map of Zhujiajiao. This was to be our 3-yuan tour guide for the trip. We spent an hour on a leisurely walk through the ancient town. Walking the streets, we were given an insight into the ancient houses and their residents, who live behind newly painted doors and windows. Their lives were peaceful. Through half-closed wooden doors, we saw housewives busy working around kitchen ranges, preparing meals. The most-loved scenic spot of Zhujiajiao is Fangsheng Bridge. A stone arch bridge built during the

mid-Qing Dynasty, the imposing bridge is viewed as the landmark structure of Zhujiajiao. Standing on the bridge, one has panoramic view of the entire town.

Located on the Sino-Russian border, the city of Manzhouli is so beautiful.

Strolling on the square in the center of the city, I met a traveler who paid a visit here 10 years ago. “It has changed a lot,” said Mr. Chen, a traveler. “I can barely find the sights I saw ten years ago, except for those Russian-style buildings.”

At present, Manzhouli has some 160,000 people of more than 20 ethnic groups, including Mongolian, Han, Hui, Korean, Ewenki, Oroqen, and Russian. They live a peaceful, happy life. A city of great historic and cultural significance, Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province

has long been known as the Town on the Water. Here, its many bridges add to the beauty of a city that is also reputed（号称）

as the Home of Bridges.

There are 604 ancient bridges in various forms kept in Shaoxing. One may cross very different stone bridges within the distance of only several steps. There is no market, no road and no village without a bridge.

Local residents explain to visitors that there are nine gates, ten temples, a hundred nunneries and eight bridge pavilions inside the city of Shaoxing, displaying the architectural features of old Shaoxing. They will further tell of three hills, ten dams and a 20-opening bridge nearby the vast Jianhu Lake. Almost all forms of China’s ancient bridges can be found in Shaoxing.

At about 3:00 pm the taxi dropped me and a few steps later I was standing at the center of Beijing and at the precise center of political power in China—Tiananmen Square.

In the distance, fronting The Square, are the Great Hall of the People, the China National Museum and the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall. I was looked down upon by these great buildings of government, culture, history and Him. At this place choices were made, destinies cast and power on Earth was changed. And still from here a nation is driven to advance in the world.