Learning about Language教学目标

教学设计

刘倩

课题

Strategies for writing a letter 课型

Writing 学情分析

Senor three students have rich knowledge reserve about English expressions and they have a good command of the requirements about the writing of letters. However, they lack systematic strategies to improve their writing.

After this lesson, students will be able to 1. Master the structure of a letter.

2. Apply some elegant expressions to a letter. 3. Keep in mind the five aspects in improving a composition. Key points: the five aspects to improve a composition. Difficult points: presenting some advanced sentence structures and applying them to students’ composition.

PPT, pictures of students’ sample works.

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教学过程

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设计意图

Step 1 lead in Conclude what makes a good Introduce the five Show students the criteria for writing and composition aspects: point, some sample works of students coherence, highlight paper length Step 2 How to write a letter 1. Lead the students to analyze the structure of a letter, the types of letters. 2. Input linking words, some elegant expressions. Write down the structure of a letter and the types of letters. Add more linking words and finish the “sentence transformation”.

Make preparations for the following writing. II．Highlight

Sentence transformation. 1. English is becoming more and more important.

English is becoming

important. (adv) 2. They hold the activity to attract more tourists. They hold the activity

more tourists. (aim to do/ be aimed at)

3. The English Summer Camp which will be held in Hainan at the end of July, 2016 will last four days.

The English Summer Camp

in Hainan at the end of July, 2016 will last four days. (non infinitive ) 4. There are two reasons contributing to my joining the club.

There are two reasons

I join the club. (Attributive clause) Step 3 Summary Review the key points students have learned. Procedures to write a letter.

Structure

Five aspects: Review the key points students Keep the students have learned. remembering the key points of this class. Step 4 Practice Apply what they have learned to Output what the Ask the students to write a composition in finishing a composition in 10-15 students have 10-15 minutes. minutes. learned. 假定你是李华，准备参加明年1月份你市举行的中华武术冬令营(Chinese Kung Fu Winter Camp)活动，请给你的美国笔友Jack写一封邮件，邀请他一起参加。要点包括：

1. 介绍冬令营的相关内容（时间、地点、参加者等）

2. 你参加的原因；

3. 询问对方的意向。

注意：1. 词数100左右,

2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Step 5 Assessment Learn from each other by Ask the students to give scores to the discussing with group members composition with each other. and finding out the advanced expressions and problems

Step 6 Homework 板书设计

Check out whether the students can apply the five aspects Rewrite your composition after class. Writing Strategies for writing a letter Five aspects: point, coherence, highlight, paper, length 教学反思

1. The students may be interested in how many scores they can get in their composition. 2. The time giving to the students to write a composition may be limited.