Teaching Contents: This lesson is from senior high school, and it mainly talks about the adult smoking issues. Paul is making a survey on adult smoking, so he writes emails to all his pen friends in other countries to seek for help.
Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objectives
① Students can master the basic structure of an email.
② Students can get more information about smoking issues in China.
(2) Ability objectives
①Students can improve their writing and speaking abilities.
② Students can express their opinion about the smoking issues in daily life.
(3) Emotional objectives
① Students can foster the interest and desire of learning English, and be fond of taking part in class activities.
② Students can get the awareness of avoiding smoking and keeping a good health.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
(1) Teaching key point
Students can get to know how to write an email to analyze the phenomenon of smoking in China.
(2) Teaching difficult point
Students can organize their survey results to write an email.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Pre-writing (9 minutes)
(1) Teacher shows the email of Paul on the screen, and asks students to read it with two questions:
①What are the questions of Paul
② What' s the basic structure of an email
Students have three minutes to finish the task and share their answers.
(2) Teacher chooses two students to read their answers for the first question, and then helps students tosummarize the structure of an email: the starting address, the main body and the ending wishes.
(3) Four students in a group to help Paul to finish his survey. They need express their ideas for Paul's questionsand then exchange with the whole class.
(4) Teacher invites several groups to write down their findings on the blackboard, and asks students to arrange thewriting contents.
(Justification: Group discussion can strengthen their cooperative spirit and their imaginative ability can bedeveloped. Moreover students will get the ability to write an email to express their ideas.)
Step 2 While-writing (6 minutes)
Students need to write an email to answer Paul' s questions of adult smoking, and they have four minutes to finishtheir first draft. While their writing, teacher will give the instructions for their problems.
(Justification: Students will cultivate their ability of writing an article within certain minutes and their goodwriting habits will be formed as well.)
Step 3 Post-writing (5 minutes)
(1) Students need to check their draft by themselves and then exchange with desk-mates to do peer-editing.
(2) Teacher asks three students to read their email in front of the class and then gives them some comments.
(Justification: Editing can provide a perfect writing for students, meanwhile the comments will help studentslearn more from others and improve their writing ability promptly.)
