Writing特级教师教学实录

Teaching plan of how to describe a city 高希

Teaching aims: 1、

Enable students to know the key aspects of a city. 2、

Enable students to know how to describe a city and can translate these sentences after the lesson. 3、

Guide students to love their hometown. Teaching key points 1、

Enable students to know the key aspects of describing a city. 2、

Enable students to know how to describe a city and can translate these sentences after the lesson. Teaching difficult points 1、

guide students to translate some key sentences quickly and correctly. 2、

Students can finish the essay in a limited time and make less mistakes. Teaching methods: Task-based teaching method and communicational method. Teaching procedures: Step one:

lead in the City Chengdu by playing a guessing game Give students some information of Chengdu and let them guess what the name of the city is. Step two: show students a video of Chengdu and ask them to think about the following question: Q:What do you think of Chengdu, can you use some adjectives to describe it? A:As I know/In my opinion, Chengdu is…

Next, Let students read these words twice. Step three：Presentation of a mind map Guide students to think how to describe a city, ask them what aspects might be included in the passage.

Step four: translation practice Show students some Chinese sentences about Chengdu and let them try to translate them into English with different versions.

1 成都，四川省的省会，位于中国的西南方向。(capital city , province , be located/situated in)

2成都气候宜人，冬天不会太冷，夏天不会太热。(pleasant, neither…nor)

3成都是四川人口最大的城市，拥有1633万

的人口。（with a population of, 16.33million）

4成都因为火锅而闻名。在成都你可以品尝到各种各样的美食。Be famous for, different kinds of

Step five: writing time Give students 10 to 15 minutes to write an essay about Chengdu

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假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack准备到成都来旅游，请你回信介绍成都的情况，要点如下：

1.成都有2300多年建城历史，人口超过一千万，气候适宜。

2.

成都是四川省省会，是西南地区的政治、经济和文化中心

3.成都很美，有武侯祠、青城山等名胜古迹，有闻名中外的美味火锅及小吃，是一个来了就不想离开的城市。

词数100左右，

武侯祠

Wuhou Temple 火锅

Hotpot 小吃

snack 青城山

Qingcheng Mountain 政治

politices 经济

economy 文化

culture 风景名胜

places of interest

Step seven: invite five students to share their compositions. Step eight: homework polish your essay after class and try to retell it.