Teaching Contents: This is a writing lesson about writing a paragraph to oppose the view that "We can learn all we need on the Internet".
Teaching Objectives:
(1) Knowledge objectives
(① Students can realize the advantages and disadvantages of learning on the Intemet.
(②) Students can master the basic structure of an argumentation.
(2) Ability objectives
(①) Students can develop writing skills such as cohesion, logic and so on,
(②) Students can express their own opinions about the Internet's effects on learning.
(3) Emotional objective
Students can develop their critical thinking when discussing a topic.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
(1) Teaching key point
Students can write an argumentation to oppose the view that "We can learn all we need on the Internet".
(2) Teaching difficult point
Students can express their own opinions about the Internet's effects on learning.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Pre-writing (6 minutes)
(1) Ask students to read the short essay and lead them to find the supporting ideas of "We can learn
all we need
on the Internet" :
(①) There are 45 students while our English lesson lasts for 50 minutes. ② We can learn much more if we work on a computer independently.
@ We can learn the subjects that we are interested in.
(2) Divide students into groups of four, ask them to think about the opposite points, and give detailed
information to support their points.
(3) Lead students to list the opposite ideas of "We can learn all we need on the Internet". (Justification:
Group discussion can arouse students' interest and strengthen their cooperative spirit. Moreover,students
can get more details for the following writing.)
Step 2 While-writing (8 minutes)
(1) Lead students to summarize the basic structure of an argumentation, and ask students to pay attention
to the topic sentence, transitional words and supporting ideas. For example:
① I don't agree with this idea. The reasons are as follows: ... ② In my opinion, we can't learn all we need on the Internet because of the following reasons: ...
(2) Ask students to write an argumentation and pay attention to the cohesion, logic, choices of words, grammar and punctuation. (Justification: Students can master some writing strategies and complete an argumentation to express their own ideas.)
Step 3 Post-writing (6 minutes)
① Organize students to make self-editing and exchange with deskmates to do peer-editing according to the Writing Rubrics ② Then choose a sample and make comments.
(Justification: Editing can provide a better writing for students, meanwhile the comments will help students learn more from others and improve their writing ability.)
