Teaching Plan (writing)
Teaching Aims: 1. Get the students to know how to write an essay of argumentation.
2. Give the students a chance to practice their writing ability.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Warm-up
In our life we sometimes try to persuade the listeners or readers to embrace a viewpoint. To achieve our goal, we need to describe our viewpoint, draw a contrast, explain a process, or define a term. So it is very important to know how to write an essay of argumentation. Now let’s read a short passage.
Step 2. Reading a passage
It is not very necessary to spend much time on grammar if we want to learn English well. What is the purpose of mastering a foreign language? To know a lot of grammar rules? Certainly not! Grammar helps us understand well or use the language correctly, but it cannot replace listening, speaking, reading or writing. What do you suppose will happen if you meet foreign friend and are asked the way to the hospital, but you don’t know how to answer him in English? Therefore we should spend more time on practice. Only through practice, that is to say, through listening more, speaking more, reading more and writing more, can we gain the ability to use English for communication.
Step3. Summary
Ask the students some questions to make them know the ways of writing an essay of argumentation.
1. What’s the style of the passage?
2. What is the thesis /topic of the passage?
3. Where can you find the thesis /topic?
4. What viewpoint did the writer hold?
5. What conclusion did the writer make in the end?
6. How did the writer support his viewpoint？
7. What tense did he use?
8. What conjunction or sentences did the writer use to connect the whole passage?
9. Please write the outline of the passage
Thesis: It is not very necessary to spend much time on grammar if we want to learn English well.
Supporting detail 1: Grammar cannot replace listening, speaking, reading or writing.
Supporting detail 2: An example to support detail 1.
Conclusion: We can get the ability of communication in English by practice
10． What should we pay attention to if we write an essay of argumentation?
要点提示：
﹡主题明确：主题句常为文章或段落的开头句，且常用简单句。
﹡论据清晰：注意逻辑性；注意句子之间的连贯，包括正确使用联结词，适当增加过渡句；论据要典型，可靠。
﹡语言正规：多用一般现在时；避免口语语体；用词确切。
Step 4. Writing
We have know how to write an essay of argumentation. Now it is your turn to practice writing a passage.
某校附近拟兴建一座化工厂。 请你以该校学生的名义， 写一篇短文， 称述反对兴建此化工厂的理由。 短文要包括下列几点：
1． 不仅你本人， 大部分同学都反对兴建。
2． 尽管该厂可为本市赚不少钱， 但危害大于好处。
3． 严重污染饮用水， 防范措施不充分。
4． 造成空气污染。
5． 侵占学生们游戏，运动的场所。
注意： 还可以补充若干理由， 不要仅仅翻译各点。
Step 5. Analyse the writing.
1. Which personal pronoun should we use? (the first and the second personal pronoun)
2. What tense should we use? (the present tense; the present perfect tense; the future tense)
3. What’s the thesis of the passage?
4. What points should we mention in the writing?
1. 不仅你本人， 大部分同学都反对兴建。
2. 尽管该厂可为本市赚不少钱， 但危害大于好处。
3. 严重污染饮用水， 防范措施不充分。
4. 造成空气污染。
5. 侵占学生们游戏，运动的场所。
5. What phrases and patterns can we choose to express the points in writing?
1. 不仅你本人， 大部分同学都反对兴建。
be against / a chemical works.
2. 尽管该厂可为本市赚不少钱， 但危害大于好处。
make a lot of money / do sb more harm than good.
3. 严重污染饮用水， 防范措施不充分。
pollute the drinking water/ prevent from .
4. 造成空气污染。
polluted
5. 侵占学生们游戏，运动的场所.
play games and have sports /occup
6. Making sentences using the phrases
1. 不仅你本人， 大部分同学都反对兴建。
Most students of our school, including me, are against the construction of a chemical works.
2. 尽管该厂可为本市赚不少钱， 但危害大于好处。
Although the works will make a lot of money for our city, it will do us more harm than good.
3. 严重污染饮用水， 防范措施不充分。
The drinking water will be badly polluted. They have done little to prevent the water from being polluted.
4. 造成空气污染。
The air over the city will be polluted too.
5. 侵占学生们游戏，运动的场所.
The only place where we students play games and have sports after school will be occupied.
7.合理调整句型，适当增加细节和必要的过渡句，组句谋篇成文。
Step 6 Model
Most students of our school, including me, are against the construction of a chemical works near our school.
Although the works will make a lot of money for our city, we do think it will do us more harm than good. The drinking water will be badly polluted. Of course, they have promised to do something to prevent the water being polluted, however, it is far from enough. On the other hand, the air over the city will be polluted too. We will never be able to breather fresh air. How can we live here any longer? Last but not the least, the site of the works to be built has been the only place where we students play games and have sports after school. Where would we go if it were occupied?
Step 7 Evaluation
Capitalization Punctuation mark
Conjunction Logical
Grammar Spelling