Communication Workshop

Teaching Aim:

Learn to attract the attention of the reader, shows the order of events, shares feelings with the reader, use vivid language to make the writing more interesting when writing a composition.

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warm up

Use the following given words to make up a short story:

bus, wait, walk, hot, teacher, remind, competition, prepare, last, tear

Ⅱ. Reading

Task 1: Read the three drafts of a student's composition on the topic A Day When Everything Went Wrong. Decide which one is the most interesting.

Think about how the writer:

● attracts the attention of the reader.

● shows the order of events.

● shares feelings with the reader.

● uses vivid language to make the writing more interesting.

How the writer attracts the attention of the reader

May 24th was a bad day.

The day everything went wrong

was may 24th.

May 24th, 2005 will live in my

mind forever.

How the writer shows the order of events

Because the school bus did not ...

First, I had to wait 30 minutes for the school bus...

The day started to go wrong the instant I left home.

How the writer shares feelings with the reader

This was a big mistake!