The Sixth Period Writing
Teaching goals
Reading and writing on P48.
1. Target language
a. Words and expressions: be worried about, air pollution, not.., but, solve the problem
b. Sentence patterns：And we should build a website where people can look at the pictures and paintings.
2. Ability goals
To know how to write a letter to a newspaper
3. Learning ability goals
To train students' ability of how to express one's feeling in a letter.
Teaching Important points
Writing.
Teaching Difficult Points
How to write such a letter.
Teaching methods
Elicitation-Inquiry, Communicative.
Teaching aids
A recorder, a projector and a computer.
Teaching procedures & ways
Step I Revision (3 mins)
Found out the sentences with Passive Voice in the two texts.
Step II Lead-in (5 mins)
On the Bb, you can find some sentences, which are also about Voices. Will you change them into Passive Voice or Active Voice?
1. Some of the cave paintings have been destroyed by air pollution.
2. Thousands of tourists visit the caves every year.
3. The carbondioxide from their breath is damaging the painting.
4. The number of visitors should be limited.
5. And we should build a website where people can look at the pictures and paintings.
Step Ⅲ Reading (3 mins)
Read the letter quickly, and get the answers to the following questions. 1. Who is the writer?
2. What is the writer worried about? 3. What suggestions does the writer make?
Step IV Pre-writing (7 mins)
Work in groups of 3, answering the questions by filling in the form. (P49)
Step V Writing (15 mins)
Ask individual Ss to answer the questions according to the form above.
Two students write their compositions down on the blackboard.
Step VI Evaluation ( 3 mins)
Let's evaluate the passages on the blackboard. Point out the good points of the article and also what should be improved.
Step VII Possible Versions (2 mins)
Step Ⅷ Homework
1. Ask the students to go over the whole unit.
2. Write a letter to the editor about any problem you come across.
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