Teaching design for basic writing on how to introduce a person

                     

I.  Teaching aims:

  1. Arouse the students’ interests about the topic by a guessing game.

  2. Improve the student’s skill in cooperation.

  3. Help the students learn how to do a basic writing of introducing a person.

II. Teaching important points:

  1. Enable the students to use the expressions or sentence structures to describe a person.

    About his/her name, age, birth time and place, family background, appearance, character, hobby, education, specialty, career, big events in life, and evaluation by others.

  2. Grasp some basic writing skills.

Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points:

    Enable the students to master the steps of writing a passage with 5 sentences.

Ⅳ. Teaching methods:

    Guessing, Group competition, Cooperative work, Learning individually 

V.  Teaching procedures:

Pre-homework: Write a passage to introduce yourself in 5 sentences, which should include:

1)      概况(brief introduction): age, birth time and place, family background

2)      相貌/性格/爱好(appearance, character, hobby)

3)      教育/专长/事业(education, specialty, career)

4)      生平(big events in your life)

5)      评估: (evaluation by classmates or teachers)

Step 1 Leading in:  Guessing game

Read 3 or 5 students’ work and get students to guess who he or she is.

The winner can gain one star for his/her group.

Step 2 Practice sentence writing skills

Present good sample sentences of describing a person and get students to practice writing sentences with better expressions or sentence structures.

      The student who makes a correct sentence can win one star for his/her group.

Step 3 Practice a basic writing

1)      Review the steps for a basic writing.

2)      Require them to finish it in 10 minutes.

3)      Ask students to check their partner’s work and correct the mistakes in red ink. （remind them to pay attention to tense, person, agreement）

4)      Present one in each group and evaluate them.

The better one can win two stars for his/her group.

5)  Add up all the stars and see which group is the winner today.

假如你叫李明，你的美国朋友布鲁斯开始学习中国文学，来信询问鲁迅其人及作品。你回信介绍鲁迅，内容如下

（1）鲁迅，出生于1881年9月25日浙江绍兴，1936年10月19日在上海逝世。

（2）爱国青年，弃医从文。

（3）著名的作家，思想家，而且还是中国现代文学的开创者。

（4）小说被译成多种文字，有一些被制成电影，如《阿Q正传》、《祝福》这两部影片。

（5）很多作品还被选入了中学和大学课本。

参考词汇：  patriotic 爱国的  《阿Q正传》：The True Story of AH Q    

　　　　　                  《祝福》：The New Year’s Sacrifice

[写作要求]    只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。文章首尾已给出，不算字数。

[评分标准]　　句子结构的准确性，信息内容的完整性。

Dear Bruce,

I was glad to know you began to study Chinese literature. Now let me tell you something about Luxun  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Since you are learning Chinese literatures, I think reading Lu Xun’s novels will help you to know more about it.

                                                                                                       Yours,           　　

                                                                                                          Li Ming

Step 4 Summary

   1) Steps for basic writing: 1 审题（人称、时态）

                        2 整合信息成5句

                        3 逐句翻译，连句成篇

   2) Introduce a person in a right order: 概、貌、育、评、估

     Think about it after class: 用哪些连词使句子之间的衔接更好，文章更连贯

Step 5 Homework

假如你叫白云，从广告上得知广州某公司需要工程师。写信应聘。要求内容包含如下要点。

    (1) 姓名：白云，出生于广州市越秀区，年龄27岁。

    (2) 2001年毕业于中山大学，后来留学英国伦敦大学。

    (3) 2005年数学方面成果显著，获博士学位。

    (4) 英国一家公司想用高薪聘用他，但拒绝了。

  (5) 为了报效祖国，于2006年毅然回国。

 （6）有数学天赋。

Dear Sir,

How do you do? Through the ad .I know your company needs an engineer. I would like to have this job. Now let me introduce myself to you.

____________________________________________________________________

I will appreciate it very much if you would give me the opportunity. Thank you for your consideration.

I am looking forward to your early reply.

                                                        Sincerely yours,

                                                             Baiyun