The Ninth Period Writing

Teaching goals 教学目标

1.Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

editor, ahead, harmful, yours, faithfully, unemployment, interrupt, tobacco, anyhow, false, environmental, protection

b. 重点句子 P30

I'm writing to protest about the plan for a new airport.

No matter what the government says, it is clear that the airport will also affect our health.

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to read the sample letter and the writing stages step by step, knowing how to write and what to write about in a letter to the local newspaper giving their opinion about a local problem.

3. Learning ability goals学能目标

Guide the students to learn how to write a formal letter to the local newspaper by reading the sample and the writing stages. Help them learn to use linking words properly to make their writing smoothly in expressions.

Teaching important points教学重点

Get the students to know how to write and what to write about in a letter to the local newspaper by reading the writing stages. Enable them to give their opinion about a local problem. Help them to master the format of a formal letter.

Teaching difficult points教学难点

Enable the Ss to master the format of a formal letter; know how to write and what to write about in a letter to the local newspaper to give the opinion about a local problem; learn to use linking words properly.

Teaching methods教学方法

Read a sample to get the key words of each Para and learn the formal expressions.

Study the writing stages to know what to write about and how to write.