the ways of making comparisons in Function.

　　5. Organize your sentences into paragraphs. Each paragraph should discuss one particular feature. You may need to rewrite some of your sentences.

　　6. Write a sentence to start your description about the two places saying what you know about them or what's special about them.

　　7. Write a sentence to finish your description and give your opinion about the two places. Harbin and Guangzhou are very different cities, but I like them both very much.

　　2. Give students 15 minutes and have them finish the composition individually.

　　3. When they have finished, ask them to exchange their writing with a partner for peer-checking of all aspects of the writing: structure, language, content. . .

　　4. If you wish to have some students read their writing out to the class, or put up the writing on the walls and ask students to circulate and read other students' writing.

　　→ Step 4 Summary and Homework

　　In this period we first learned some new words in describing places and then you practiced using the words to describe places. Finally we did some writing. Through the writing section students would surely know how to compare two cities.

　　Homework:

　　Finish Activity 19 on Page 78.

　　板书设计

　　Module 2　Developing and Developed Countries

　　Period 5　Vocabulary and Speaking; Writing

　　Vocabulary and Speaking

　　New York is a modern and wealthy industrial city, and it is busy and crowded although not very dirty.

　　Beijing is the economic and political centre of our country. It is an attractive city with a lot of beautiful buildings.

　　My hometown is on the bank of the Yellow River. It is very poor now, but I make up my mind to work hard to make it wealthy and attractive.

　　Writing

　　1. Think of two regions cities, towns or villages you know well. One of them could be your hometown.

　　2. Write notes about some of these features:

　　population, climate, industry, location, tourism, transport

　　3. Write sentences using your notes.

　　4. Rewrite the sentences and compare the two places. Use the link words in Grammar, and the ways of making comparisons in Function.

　　5. Organize your sentences into paragraphs. Each paragraph should discuss one particular feature. You may need to rewrite some of your sentences.

　　6. Write a sentence to start your description about the two places including what you know about them or what's special about them.

　　7. Write a sentence to finish your description and give your opinion about the two places.

　　活动与探究

1. Practice making comparisons between two places.