Communication Workshop
李娟
Teaching Aim:
Learn to attracts the attention of the reader, shows the order of events, shares feelings with the reader, use vivid language to make the writing more interesting when writing a composition.
Teaching procedures:
Ⅰ. Warm up
Use the following given words to make up a short story:
bus, wait, walk, hot, teacher, remind, competition, prepare, last, tear

Ⅱ. Reading
Task1: Read the three drafts of a student’s composition on the topic A Day When Everything Went Wrong. Decide which one is the most interesting.
Think about how the writer:
●attracts the attention of the reader.
● shows the order of events.
● shares feelings with the reader.
● uses vivid language to make the writing more interesting.
How the writer attracts the attention of the reader
May 24th was a bad day.
The day everything went wrong
was may 24th.
May 24th, 2005 will live in my
mind forever.
How the writer shows the order of events
Because the school bus did not …
First, I had to wait 30 minutes for the school bus…
The day started to go wrong the instant I left home.
How the writer shares feelings with the reader
This was a big mistake!
…and you can imagine how I felt
by the time.
What a clumsy end to an awful day!
How the writer used vivid language to make the writing more interesting
It was hot and tiresome.
The day was hot and tiring.
The sun was already boiling hot…
Task2: layout
introduction
beginning of the narrative
development of the narrative
conclusion
Ⅲ. Post-reading
Make draft A and B more interesting by replacing some phrases with more colorful language.
Ⅳ. Homework.

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