Task: A recommendation letterppt配套教案和课堂实录

7下Unit 7 Abilities

Task

南苑中学

沈陈炎

I. Teaching aims and learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. describe the ability and personality of a person; 2. analyze the structure of a recommendation letter; 3. write a recommendation letter.

II. Teaching contents 1. New words and phrases: sir, part, need, lose, before, most of the computer word, take part in, lose one’s way, hear from

2. New sentences: I would like to recommend Daniel for this year’s Young Star Award.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty How to write a recommendation letter.

IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Revision Go over what Daniel and his classmates did in the Helping Hands Club. T: Hello, boys and girls. Look, who is the boy? S: Simon. T: Yes. He is a member of the Helping Hands Club. What did he do? S: Simon helped an old man cross the street./ He gave a seat to someone on the bus. T: Well done! Simon also takes part in the club activities. Look at the pictures. What did he do in the club activities? S: He visited an old people’s home with classmates./He collected many things for Project Hope with Millie to help children in need./He cleaned up the park on weekends. T: Great! Step 2 Presentation

Show some pictures. 1.

Present the new words and phrases recommend, take part in, award, personality,

There is a Young Star Award every year in Sunshine town. Mr. Wu wrote a recommendation letter for Daniel this year. If you were Mr. Wu, why did you recommend Daniel? Take a guess. 2. Read and analyze Mr Wu’s recommendation letter. 1)Listen to Mr Wu’s

letter and answer. Who wrote the letter? Which award would he like to recommend Daniel for? What happened to a 5-year-old boy last week? 2)Read and fill in the blanks 3.T: How many paragraphs are there in Mr Wu’s letter?

S: There are five paragraphs.

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T: Good. Now let’s match the paragraphs with their main ideas.

Paragraph 1 tells what the letter is about. Paragraph 2 tells abilities of Daniel. Paragraph 3 tells personality of Daniel. Paragraph 4 tells what Daniel did. Paragraph 5 says again who to recommend. T: Mr Wu’s recommendation letter has three parts: introduction, main body and conclusion. Let’s put the five paragraphs into them. Can you help? Paragraph 1 is in the first part. Paragraph 2, paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 are in the second part. Paragraph 5 is in the third part. T: The first part says who to recommend. The second part tells us why to recommend Daniel for this award. It is about Daniel’s abilities, personality and what he did. The third part tells the wish of Mr. Wu and Daniel’s classmates.

T: Now can you tell me why Mr. Wu wants to recommend Daniel? How about Daniel’s abilities? He can learn things quickly. He can use computers well. He does most of the computer work for the Helping Hands Club. T: Now how about Daniel’s personality?

He thinks carefully when he works. He plans everything well and often takes part in activities of the Project Hope group. T: Then what did Daniel do? He helped a five-year-old boy. The boy lost his way. 3. Deal with how to write a recommendation letter Introduction

开头

write who to recommend.

Main body

主体

write why to recommend this person.write about the abilities, personality of the person and what the person did.

Conclusion

结尾

write the wish

Yours faithfully, 结束语

Wu Bing

写信人

write

the signature

Step 3 Practice Write a recommendation letter T: You know how to write a recommendation letter. Now let’s help to complete Sandy’s recommendation letter for Simon. Let’s see. Which part does the letter need?

S: “Why”.

T: Simon’s classmates think Simon is clever, kind and helpful. Now let’s complete the letter. Here are some useful expressions for the writing. You have ten minutes to write. T: I can see your recommendation letters are ready. Now please check your letters carefully. Make sure: (1) it’s a letter not an article!

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(2) it tells who to recommend. (3) it tells why to recommend the person. (4) it includes your wish. (5) there are few mistakes of tense, spelling and punctuation. T: Let’s help each other check the writing to make it better.

Step 4 Production Write the recommendation letter. V. Homework 1. Finish the exercises in the workbook. 2.Write a recommendation letter.(Recommend one of your classmates for this year’s Good Student Award. )

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