Handout: May 10th, 2002

Teaching Plan on English Writing

CLASS: Class __, Junior III, No.14 Middle School Hangzhou

DATE: May 10th, 2002

TOPIC: On English Writing

TEACHING PROPERTIES: a set of multi-media system, a recorder

TEACHING GOAL: Deal with different styles of the written work and get to know a little more about the writing skills.

LESSON TYPE: Review

TEACHING PROCEDURES:

Lead-in

1. Greeting

2. Guess: show the tide and ask “Where am I from?”

3. Talk about Hangzhou and Haining.

Hangzhou is a beautiful city. What’s it famous for?

( Ss: the West Lake, Longjing Tea etc.)

A lot of people like to visit Hangzhou. What’s the best time to visit it?

What’s the best time to visit Haining? (Play VCD)

Poem about Haining Tide: 八月十八潮，壯觀天下無(Su was good at writing)

4. On English writing:

Do you like English writing?

Are you good at writing?

Is English writing important or not? Why?

5. A good way to improve English quickly: to take part in an English Summer Camp.

Have you ever taken part in an English Summer Camp?

22 American teachers gave lessons in the camp.

Would you like to take part in a English Summer Camp?

If you know the camp life, maybe you’ll like it.

6. Suppose you are at Hongda School in Haining and having a holiday.

Task l Write a notice

1. The headmaster wants to see how we are getting on with our English, so he asks our class to finish a notice.

Contents: 通知全體外教及學員于7月18日上午8:30分在校門口集合，坐車去鹽官（Yanguan）野餐并觀潮（tide-seeing）。發布人：校長室。通知發布時間：7月17日。

3. Discuss: How to write a notice in English. (Put the random parts in the right order)

4. Write and then report to the class. (Show the headmaster’s affirmation)

Task 2 A telephone message

1. One of the classmates called Claus hurt himself when he was playing basketball with “Jordan”.(Date: July 20th )

2. See a doctor and then ring up the foreign teacher: Tiffany. (7:50 a.m. , July 21)

3. Tiffany isn’t in and Allan leaves a message on her desk. (Claus, Allan, Tiffany)

Telephone Message

From ____________________ To: ___________________

Date:_____________________ Time: __________________

Message: __________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

_____________________

Task 3 A note asking for a sick leave

1. Claus hurt his right hand. After he rang up Miss Tiffany, he wants to write a note to her, so he needs help to write it. Can you help him?

2. Discuss how to arrange a note asking for a sick leave. Show the frame of a note.

3. Ask and answer what happened to Claus.

4. Write it in the name of Claus and report. (Useful language: play basketball, hurt one’s hand, in bed, have lessons, get well soon)

July 21st

Dear Tiffany,

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__________________________________________________________________________

Claus

Task 4 Look, think and write

1. Claus likes playing basketball, what about you?

Do you like playing basketball?

What do know about NBA or CBA?

Who is your favourite basketball player? Why?

Why do you like playing basketball?

2. Ask your friend something about basketball and report to the class.

3. On August 2nd, the Chinese teachers play basketball against the American teachers.

What do the teachers have a basketball match for?

What do you think of the players? (Chinese/ American)

4. Discussion: Which team will win?

5. Report.

6. Open the envelop and find out the result. Why is it a draw?

7. Deal with the key words.

8. Change the key words into sentences and make them better.

9. Join the sentences together, change some words and add an end.

10. Proof reading.

Task 5 A diary

1. Change it into a diary.

2. Consolidation:

Make sure what you have to write. (Learn the information from the picture). Pay special attention to the writing style, person, tense, and what, when, where and how the thing has happened.

Write out key words or phrases of the picture.

Change the words and phrases into sentences.

Join the sentences into an article, making sure the agreement of subject and predicate, tense and logical cohesion.

Proof reading.

Task 6 Views on English Summer Camp(make a survey) Homework

1. Make a survey: Views on English Summer Camp. (Group work: 3-4 Ss a group)

Have you ever taken part in an English Summer Camp?

Would you like to take part in an English Summer Camp? Why or why not?

What can you learn from an English Summer Camp?

2. Report: both in diagram and written work. (Send them to me)

羅敏江 (John)

Zhejiang Hongda School

attached to Shanghai International Studies University

Haining, Zhejiang 314400, China

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E-mail: luominjiang@mail.jxptt.zj.cn

English Writing

1. A notice:

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2. A telephone message:

Telephone Message

From ____________________ To: ___________________

Date:_____________________ Time: __________________

Message: __________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

_____________________

3. A note asking for a sick leave:

________________

____________________

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

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4. Look at the picture and write:

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Homework: (Make a survey about English Summer Camp)

Names Have you ever…? Would you like …? What can you learn…?

Discuss in groups of three to six and report in different ways:

Diagram:

an example

Yours:

Written work: (Write an e-mail to John: luominjiang@mail.jxptt.zj.cn )

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