Task based writing—How to describe a person I.Teaching objectives: Students will be able to:
1.Learn how to write a short paage of a great man.2.Get some useful adjectives for describing a person 3.Develop students’ awarene of waring
4.Get some information about how to write a basic writing.5.Develop students’ writing ability.II.Writing strategies:
1.Learning Book1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela- a modern hero to get some useful adjectives to describe a person 2.Knowing how to write a basic writing 3.Brainstorm about the topic 4.Finish the writing in group
III.Teaching aids: multi-media equipments (computer, slides, PPT，etc.)
IV.Homework: writing another paage V.Teaching procedures Lead in
Step 1: T.let students think about how to describe a person.Such as \"Mary is a nice girl.\" \"Jim is an outgoing boy.\"
Brainstorming how to describe a person and get vocabulary input.Writing strategy: Get some useful adjective to describe a person and get vocabulary input.Pre-writing Step 2 T presents a short paage about a famous singer to students and asks them to gue that who he is.
Showing students a sample about how to describe a person Find out: 1.Who is he?
2.Find out some useful words, expreion and sentence patterns in the paage
3.If you want to write a composition about a person, how will you write it? While-writing
Step 3 1.Give students a writing topic in the form of a chat and this writing topic is about Nelson Mandela.
2.Tell students that the paage must be written with five sentences.3.Give students time to get key information
Step 4: Ss try to translate the information they get into five English sentences
Sentence Main information
1 When was Mandela born and his hobbies. 2 Mandela\'s experience when he was a lawyer 3-4 What did he do for poor black man in South Africa
5 His famous saying and dream. Post-writing
Step 5 Group work: Discuion
1.Ss check the translation for their partners and discu how to correct their mistakes
2.Thinking: Great people are also famous people, but famous people may not be great people.So what should a great people be? 3.What can we learn from a great person.VI.Sample and Summary
Step 6 Show Ss a poible version for the writing and ask them to find out some useful words, expreions and sentence patterns Step 7 Sum up: How can you do a task based writing
1.Examining the writing topic and ensure the person, tense and writing style of it.
2.Make out an outline which can be translated into five English sentences
3.Translate the information you get into five English sentences 4.Check your composition and discu it with you partner 5.Correct your mistakes if available VII.Step 8: Homework (after cla)
Write an article in the form of task based writing which is about an armle pianist-Liu Wei（刘伟）
