1、Writing a biographical article,Task,1. How old are you? 2. Which floor are you on at school? 3. What is the date today? 4. How old is your father?,Work in pairs and discuss some simple questions:,Skills building 1: Listening for numbers,Revision,Cardinal numbers,Ordinal numbers,Kinds of figures,Fill
2、 in following forms,first (1st)second (2nd)third (3rd)fifth (5th)eighth (8th)seventeenth (17th) fortieth (40th) ninety second(92nd),in the 20s (20s)in the 30s (30s)in the 40s (40s)in the 50s (50s)in his 60s (60s)in her 70s (70s),Modifier of numbers,We can use certain words and phrases to express an
3、approximate number or to modify a number.about, or so, around, more than, over, less than, under, below, at most, at least, more or less,Figures can refer to,age My dog will be two next week. date David was born on 5th October 1946. percentage Mary scored 86 percent in her maths test. price Tom boug
4、ht a shirt for $ 150.,street number Her friend lives at 337 Hunan Road. time Jane plays basketball at six oclock. telephone number Please call at 0515- 6883376. fax number My fax is 0517 69620035. QQ number His QQ number is 567894123.,Listen to an introduce with Steve Fossett and fill in the numbers
5、.,In 2002,Steve became the_ person to fly around the world alone in a balloon without stopping. He had to try _times before he finaly succeeded. Steve was in his late _ when he circled the world in a balloon. He set _world records in his life.,first,six,fifties,116,In 2004, he and his team set a wor
6、ld record by sailing around the world in _days. Sadly, in _, he was flying a plane alone when the plane disappeared. The plane and his body were not discovered until one year later.,2007,58,Step 1: finding a speaker for your school Your headmaster has asked you to help find a person to speak to your
7、 schoolmates. Listen to his requirements and fill in the notes below.,1. Must be older than 18 but younger than _. 2. Experience as speaker would be _. 3. Must be able to speak _and Chinese. 4. Must live in or near _.,Requirements for speaker:,35,helpful,English,Nanjing,5. Available between _May and
8、 10 June. 6. Able to speak from two oclock until _. 7. Prepare a _ -hour speech, with an extra half hour for questions and answers.,20,four,two,8. Must be _happy to spend time talking to students .,friendly,Wanted Exciting Speaker,Part B:,(your school name) June 18 Nanjing English Chinese friendly,I
9、dentification: name, address and phone number Objective: what kind of job you is wanted Education: The names of the most recent school comes first, graduation date should be included.,A CV may include:,Skills building 2: reading a CV,Experience: Only experience that is in connection with the job bei
10、ng applied for listed. The most recent experience comes first. company name(s) and position(s) held are listed for past jobs. Different kinds of work experience can be included(professional, internship, volunteer,etc),References: Personal or professional references may be included. Phone numbers and
11、e-mail addresses are usually incldued for references. Many people offer their references upon request, rather than listing them in their CVs. Referees should never be family members.,Other: Hobbies and interests/activities are often included at the end of a CV.,Answer,1.2004-2008 Peking university20
12、01-2004 No.1 High School,2.Wang Bing 123 Nanjing Road5555 8920 ,3.Referees: English teacherMs Lu Xia 5555 5339Football coachMr Zhang Xi 5555 5433,Step 2: introducing a speaker,1. Name: _ 2. Home: _ 3. Male/Female: _ 4. Age:_ 5. Languages spoken: _,Gao Qian,Female,29,Flat D,9407 Zhongshan South Road,
13、 Nanjing,China,Chinese (native); English (fluent),6. Experience: _ _ _ _ _ _,2009-2010 Travelled around the world giving speeches,and introducing Chinese culture,2008 started a school to help students get accepted to study abroad programmes,2004-2008 Worked as an English teacher in a college,1995-19
14、96 lived in Australia,_,7. Achievement (s): _ _ _ _ 8. Interests: _,start a school; a good teacher for many years,travel and adventure,A biographical article,Introduction2. Body3. Conclusion,Skills building 3: organizing information,Tell the reader what the text is going to be about. This paragraph
15、should be designed to catch the readers attention. It is, therefore,important that we find out who the reader is and what the purpose of the writing is.,Introduction,Present only main idea in each paragraph . Use examples, facts,opinons and statistics to support your idea. Write about events in the
16、order they happened. However, if we use the past perfect tense , we do not have to mention the events one by one we can refer back to an earlier time.,2. Body,Write a surprising or interesting concussion if possible.,3. Conclusion,Part A,Introduction: _ Body: _ Conclusion: _,a b d e h j,c,f i,2 _ 3
17、_ 4 _ 5 _ 6_ 7_ 8_ 9 _ 10_,e,c,h,b,a,j,d,i,f,Gao Jian will speak at your school. Write a biographical article about her for your school newspaper. Use the information you have collected in Steps 1 and 2, and follow the model above. Tell why Gao Qian is interesting and what can be learnt from her.,St
18、ep 3 Writing a biographical article,A sample,We are going to invite Ms Gao Qian to our school to give a speech on the 30th of May. She once lived in Australia and has travelled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows China and Chinese culture quite well, and she also knows about th
19、e world.,introduction,She was born in Yangzhou in 1982. In 1995 she went to Australia and lived there for one year. Then she came back to China and studied in Nanjing No.5 High school. She is good at both Chinese and English. She graduated from Peking University in 2004.,body,After graduation, She w
20、orked as an English teacher in a college for 4 years. In 2008, she started a school to help poor students get accepted to study-abroad progammes. She likes travel and adventure and has been to different places around the world,She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming.,conclusion,
