UNIT 10 – LESSON 4: D. WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: - Students can write a letter of invitation.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: - A letter of invitation.
b. Language: - Language used to write an informal letter.
- Structures: "Let's ...... "," Shall we.....?", etc .
3. Skills:
- Reading: read the sentences in task 1 and the incomplete letters in task 2.
- Speaking: fill each blank in these invitation letters.
- Writing: write an invitation letter basing on the cues.
II. Anticipated problems: - Students may not be able to distinguish some
structures such as " Let's......", " Would you like....?", "How about.........?", etc.
III. Teaching Aids: - board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking : (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about how a forest fire may start and
what every camper ought to remember.
- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims:to get sts to write out the sentences by matching
the first half in A with the most suitable half in B and
then to use these sentences to fill the blanks in the
invitation letters.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to read the requirement of task 1 carefully and
then work in pairs to do the task.
- Ask sts to pay attention to the meaning as well as the
structure of the two halves.
- Recall some structures so that sts can do the task more
easily.
Shall we/ Can you/ Why don't you + V- inf...?
Let's + V-inf.
Would you like/ Are you free + to-V.......?
Do you feel like/ How about + V-ing.......?
- Ask sts to do in 4 minutes and move around to help if
necessary.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to work in pairs to read the letters in pairs and
to use the above expression to fill each blank.
- Introduce some new words/phrases:
+ for a while: for a period of time
+ 'disco (n): a club or party where people dance with pop
music
+ 'afterwards (adv): at a later time
- Ask sts to listen to the teacher and repeat , then write
these words into their notebooks.
- Get sts to do the task in 5 minutes and then get
- Listen to their friend and give
remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Copy the structures into theit
notebooks.
- Do the task in pairs.
- Share their answer with their friends.
- Present their ideas.
1.c 2. f/h 3. a 4. g/d
5. h/f 6. d/g 7. e 8.b
- Listen to the teacher.
- Work in pairs to read the letters and
try to understand the content of the
letters.
- Listen and repeat.
- Copy the words/ phrases
- Report their answer:
1.3/8 2.3/8 - 4/6 3. 2/5-
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- Listen to the teacher.
- Do the writing task.
- Read their writing: (a sample
paragraph)