(1) Teaching contents

This is an English writing lesson about writing a reply to the given e-mail.

(2) Teaching objectives

① Students can understand the e-mail and get important information.

② Students can get the structure of the material and write a reply based on the given e-mail after discussion.

③ Students can have good character of self-confidence and self-improvement.

④ Students can sort out and summarize the information in the material.

⑤ Students will be willing to take part in the classroom activities and cooperate with other group members.

(3) Key and difficult points

① Key point

Students can understand how to write a reply.

② Difficult point Students can write a reply in a logical order and improve their writing ability.

(4) Major steps

Step 1 Lead-in (3 mins)

At the beginning of the class, the teacher will show the picture of an e-mail and ask some questions- “Have you ever received an e-mail? Can you write a reply?”. Some students will be invited to share their answers.

After that, the teacher will give corresponding comments on students’ answers and show the topic of this lesson.

(Justification: The picture is vivid and interesting, which can arouse students’interest in teaching activities. Meanwhile, it can also introduce the topic today naturally.)

Step 2 Pre-writing (15 mins)

① Learning about the material

The teacher will guide students to read the material to summarize the topic of it. Then students will answer some questions about the material.

Q1: Why did Fran write the e-mail?

Q2: What was Mei’s problem?

② Structure learning

Students will read the material again to summarize the basic structure, and they should pay attention to the topic sentences, transitional words and logical relations.

③ Conceiving the writing material

Students will work in groups to talk about some advice that they can give and write down the ideas. Representatives from each group will be invited to share their discussion results using some useful expressions.

④ Outlining The teacher will guide students to write an outline. Students need to put their ideas in order.

(Justification: Through the above activities, students will be prepared to write their own compositions. They will know what to write and how to write it.)

Step 3 While-writing (10 mins)

Drafting

Students will write their own compositions. The teacher will walk around to offer help and remind students to pay attention to the spelling, grammar, punctuation and so on.

(Justification: Through this activity, students will finish their compositions and their writing ability will be improved.)

Step 4 Post-writing (5 mins)

① Editing

a. Self-editing

The teacher will give students a short time to go through their compositions to correct the mistakes in spelling and grammar

b. Peer-editing

Students will exchange their compositions with each other and correct the mistakes in spelling and grammar. They can also make suggestions about polishing their compositions.

② Displaying and evaluating

The teacher will invite some students to share their compositions with the whole class and guide other students to evaluate these compositions, and then the teacher will make a conclusion.

(Justification: Through these activities, students can express themselves more exactly and work out better ideas or expressions, and their writing skills can be improved. Besides, they will be more willing to share their ideas in public and learn from others.)

Step 5 Summary and homework (7 mins)

① Summary

Students should act as an assistant teacher to conclude what they have learned in this class, and then the teacher will make a summary.

② Homework

a. Modify the composition after class.

b. Search the Internet for more suggestions for people in trouble and share them in the next class.

(Justification: Students can improve their summarizing ability in this step and cultivate their cultural awareness and further consolidate their writing ability.)