1、Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language(A letter from Zhang Sha)Introduction In this period reading is stressed. For that serves as a preparation for the writing task to come. Before they are asked to write students may be introduced to the writing of a newspaper story. The Washington Post
2、news story should be shown to the students. Objectives To helped students read for clues used in writing to be done To helped students write a speech To helped students listen and answer about earthquakeProcedures 1. Warming up by discussingHave you ever written a speech? What is a speech? Speech me
3、ans an act of speaking formally to a group of listeners. What do you have to consider when you are writing a speech? Please discuss it in pairsWho is the audience? How can we express ourselves clearly?TIPS ON MAKING SPEECHESKnow your Audience; Prepare Your Remarks; Avoid Technical Language; Prepare
4、Audio/Visual Aids; Practice, Practice, Practice; Review Questions and Answers; Arrive Early; Keep Your Remarks Brief; Briefly Summarize2. Reading and underlining Read the letter and exercises again and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the letter. Copy them in your notebook aft
5、er class as homework.Collocations from the lettercongratulations, win the high school speaking competition, open a new park, honour those who died in the terrible disaster, would like to do, as you know, invite sb. to do sth., on that special day, at the beginning of, thank sb, for doing sth., honou
6、r sb. for sth., be known as, encourage sb. to do sth., be happy to do sth., collect stamps, lose ones life3. Listening Turn your books to page 31. Well listen to a story about a person who experienced the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Ill play the tape three times. First listen and try to get some
7、details that Exercises 1 and 2 requests. Second listen again and try to finish the exercises. Third listen and check your answers. 4. Guided writing Making an introductionHave you ever read a newspaper story? Now turn on your books to page 31 and look at Writing. Read the brief description about how
8、 to write a newspaper story. Compare a newspaper story to a short story and answer the following questions.1) What should you write before writing a newspaper story? (outline)2) What should a newspaper outline have? (a headline; a list of main ideas; a list of important details) 3) Why a headline is
9、 needed? (It can tell the readers what the topic is; it can also attract the readers attention)4) How can you finish a newspaper story? (First, you should write a headline, then organize your main ideas into paragraphs, and then put some details into each paragraph.)5) Have you found out the differe
10、nce between a newspaper story and a short story? (Usually a short story begins with small details and includes big details later. A newspaper story does just the opposite. Both kinds of stories use paragraphs with main ideas. In a good newspaper story, the point-of-view is objective (i.e. it has no
11、point-of-view) while a short story is subjective (i.e. it has a point-of-view). A newspaper story has no conclusion; a short story generally does.)Now Ill show you a newspaper story to find out the headline, main idea and details of each paragraph. THE WASHINGTON POSTSEATTLE-A powerful earthquake wi
12、th a magnitude of 6.8 hit Washington State last week. The quake, the biggest in 50 years, caused billions of dollars in damage. But miraculously, only one person died and more than 100 people were injured in the quake.Authorities said one reason there wasnt greater destruction is that the region spe
13、nt millions of dollars in the last decade designing earthquake-proof facilities and improving existing buildings, schools and homes.Earthquake expert said the event illustrated (说明) the growing gap between rich and poor nations in the ability to mitigate (减轻) natural disasters. Only a handful of peo
14、ple were seriously injured here, a slight number compared with the devastation (破坏) in countries like Turkey, India and El Salvador, where quakes have buried thousands under poorly constructed buildings. Writing for China DailyNow prepare the outline for a short newspaper story for China Daily. You
15、can use the example in exercise 1 to help you organize your outline. Underlining collocationsRead the outline and the newspaper story on page 31 and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in them. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from Ready to go on the r
16、oad for Disaster-Hit Areasa team of cyclists, be known as, have a big meeting, raise money, in disaster-hit areas, collect 1 million yuan5. Closing down by having a summaryWe have learned a lot about earthquakes. Now lets have a summary about what we have learned. Look at the following questions.(1) Have you ever experienced an earthquake?(2) Can you describe an earthquake in English?(3) What do you know about the cause of an earthquake?(4) What new information about earthquakes have you learned now?(5) What words and expressions can you use to describe an earthquake?