Teaching design
Writing------Invitation
Teaching design
ⅠAnalysis of teaching material and learners: Writing is a main test point in NECT and one of the four basic abilities for our students as English learners.It is a very inspiring and meaningful topic which will attract students’ attention.
. Learner analysing: Our students have learned English for almost 5 years. They have had some basic knowledge and ability in this language. However, spoken and reading ability are two main shortcomings of them. In this period, students need to do some oral and reading English practice. Maybe there will be difficulties. Meanwhile, they can learn something useful from it.
Ⅱ. Teaching aims:
1.Knowledge aim: Be able to write an English invitation properly and correctly.
2. Ability aim: Know how to write an organized essay.
3.Emotion aim: Arouse students' confidence and interest in language learning and English writing .
Ⅲ. Key points: Enable students to write an English invitation properly and correctly.
Ⅳ. Difficult points:
How to express yourself and convey the given information clearly?
How to organize your writing?
Ⅴ. Teaching aids: Multimedia, blackboard, etc.
Ⅵ. Teaching procedure:
Step 1. Lead - in
Greet the whole class as usual.
Introduce the theme of this period by sharing the topics of writing task in NEMT for past three years.
Introduce our teaching goals for this period:
1.Be able to write an english invitation properly and correctly.
2. Know how to write an organized essay.
3. Arouse students' confidence and interest in language learning and English writing .
Step 2. Teaching content
Ⅰ. Invitation writing
1.In your opinion, how to write an invitation?
Students’ activity:discuss and free talk. Ask 1 -2 students to talk about their opinions.
Possible point: analyse the assignment(tense,types of writing, structure,main points, the required information, appropriate expressions and goog manners, good beginning and ending, clearness, no mistakes, etc.)
2.How to organize your writing?
Possible answers: 3-paragraph
P1:Beginning-- reason & purpose
P2 Body part ---Cover all the given information; add your own idea if necessary; use proper conjunctions and transitional expressions; be logical and clear.
P3 Ending-- your wish,early reply, etc.
(Get students to think about the question, summarize and share their point of view. Students activity: Pair-work & share)
Polish your writing and handwriting
Ⅱ. Students’ works sharing
Share two samples written by students themselves and ask 2 to 3 of them to check and correct the mistakes, give reasonable marks and tell the reasons.
(Show students the marking criterion for students to refer to before doing the exercise)
Step 3. Class assignment
After learning the basic rules of writing an invitation, try to write an email to invite Gary to take part in the Culture and Art Festival held in your school.
(Give 10 minutes for students to draft an invitation email.)
Attention: Cover all the required information
Have clear structure and logic
Properly use the words, phrases and structures. Be able to use some special sentence pattern and different clauses we learned.
Avoid obvious mistakes(words spelling,tense, subject-verb agreement,etc.)
Neat and clear handwriting
Possible model for students to refer to:
Dear …,
…be going to ... I am writing to invite you to …
The event is to take place in … on … ... will … Then … will ... I am sure it will be great fun. You’d better…
I would appreciate it if you could give me an early reply. Looking forward to your participation.
Yours,
Li Hua
Ask students to share their writing and their main idea.
Step 4. Summary
To write a good invitation, you need to remember the rules of writing and keep practicing it from time to time.
Ⅶ Homework
Polish your writing and hand in your formal copy before 9:00 pm.
Blackboard:
Writing-- Invitation
Possible answers: 3-paragraph
P1:Beginning-- reason & purpose
P2 Body part ---Cover all the given information; add you