Teaching Contents: Write a personal essay according to the example given. Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objective
Students will have a clear mind about what a personal essay is and know how to write a personal essay.
(2) Ability objective
Students can develop the ability to analyze the structure of the passage and master the skills of writing a personalessay.
(3) Emotional objective
Students can understand life experience better and can be more confident to talk about their personal things withothers.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
(1) Teaching key point
Enable students to write a personal essay.
(2) Teaching difficult point
Let the students know how to write a personal essay.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Warming up and lead-in (3 minutes)
Ask students to tell about something unforgettable about their life experiences, such as a trip, a party, a date, anembarrassing experience.
(Justification: To raise the topic and make them get familiar with what they're going to talk about today.)
Step 2 Brainstorming (3 minutes)
Ask students to list the things that jump into their minds related to their personal experience.
(Justification: It helps students to have many topics to choose in their writing. )
Step 3 Sample reading and discussion (5 minutes)
Give Students the example "My favorite sport" and ask them to read it. Then divide them into groups and makethem have a discussion about the format of the passage. Then make a summary on it.
Para.1 the topic sentence
Para.2 details about the topic
Para.3 feelings about the topic
Para.4 future hopes/conclusion
(Justification: The sample reading can help students have a basic understanding of the contents of a personalessay and enable the Ss to know how to write this kind of essay. Through discussion, students' thoughts can beinspired by each others' sparkling points.)
Step 4 Mapping (5 minutes)
Ask students to select the useful information from the brainstorming and organize these ideas.
(Justification: Mapping is a useful way for students to organize contents in writing, which helps the students towrite their essay more easily.)
Step 5 Outlining (4 minutes)
Ask the students to make an outline of their personal essay and pay attention to the format when writing.
(Justification: The outlining can help students illustrate the main organizing structure and the most importantpoints of the essay and make a preparation for the drafting.)
