How’severythinggettingalongwithyou?Iamsorrytoknowthatyouhavehadatoughtimeinrecentdays.Hereareacoupleofsuggestionsforyou.
Tobeginwith,itwouldbebetterifyouengageinmoreoutdoorexercise.What’smore,readingbookscanbeagoodwaytohelpyouthroughthehardtime.Finally,youcantalkmorewithyourfriends.
Hopemysuggestionscanhelpyou.Iamlookingforwardtoyourreply!
Teachingcontent:ThisisasuggestionletterthatLiHuawritestohisfriendTom.
Studentscanknowhowtowriteasuggestionlettertoafriendwiththerighttenseandformat.
Studentscanimprovetheirabilitiesofwritingasuggestionletter,suchasmasteringtherightwritingformat,usingfixedcollocation.
Bywritingasuggestionlettertoafriend,studentscanraisetheirawarenessofcaringaboutotherandgetinterestedinwriting.
Teachingkeyanddifficultpoints:
Howtomakestudentsmastertheformatofasuggestionletterandbeabletowritealettertohis/herfriends.
教学过程：
StudentsareaskedtoreadtheletterandfindoutthereasonwhyLiHuawritesthelettertoTom.
Studentsareaskedtoreadtheletteragainandoutlinethebasicelementsofwritingaletterwiththeirpartners.
Studentsareinvitedtodiscusswiththeirpartnersaboutwhatsuggestionstheycangiveto
TomifTomsayshewantstoimprovehisoralEnglish.
(Justification:Readinganddiscussionletstudentsknowthebasicelementsofaletterand
preparefortheirwriting.)
Step2:while-writing(10mins)
Showstudentsthecorrectformatofaletterandaskstudentstowriteadraft.
Offerthewritingstandardtostudents,makethemrevisetheirlettersontheirown,andmake
theirattentionfocusonthefollowingtips:
Usesomegoodwordsandcomplexsentencepatternsintheletter.
Askstudentstoedittheirpartner’swritings,checktheideasorthelogicaldevelopment,pay
attentiontothegrammar,spellingandpunctuationoftheirwritings.
(Justification:Draftingandeditingmakestudentswritealetterwithcorrectformatandtense,
grammar,spellingandcultivatestudents’goodwritinghabit.)
Step3:Post-writing(5mins)
Chooseoneortwostudents’writingsandshowthemtothewholeclasstofindtheadvantagesanddisadvantagesofthemandgivethemsomeevaluations.
Askstudentstorevisetheirarticlesaccordingtotheevaluations.
(Justification:Sampleshowandrevisinghelpstudentstoknowthestandardofanexcellentwritingandimprovetheirownwritingability.)
