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课件网) UNIT 1 LIFE CHOICES Writing Workshop A Personal Email Teaching Objectives Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to: Language Competence: Independently write a well-structured, linguistically appropriate, and substantively rich email. Cultural Awareness & Thinking Quality: Organize email content logically and expressively, demonstrating a preliminary understanding of cross-cultural communication. Learning Capacity: Utilize an evaluation rubric for self- and peer-assessment, and refine their work based on feedback. Teaching Points and Difficulties Constructing Discourse Knowledge of Personal Emails Achieving Linguistic Appropriateness and Cultural Fit Integrating Logic and Emotion Organically Teaching Procedures Situational Introduction Presenting High school life scenarios Promoting reflective questions Introducing the final task Situational Introduction Promoting reflective questions Guiding question:How would you introduce your new life to your friend abroad Situational Introduction Introducing the final task The ultimate goal:write a cross-cultural personal email to a former junior high school friend living overseas,sharing recent life updates. Model text destruction Understanding Coherence through: Time Sequence Topic Development Transitional Phrases What Makes a Letter Easy to Follow Content : Does the writer tell events in order → Time Sequence Do ideas flow from one to another smoothly → Topic Development Are there linking words that guide the reader → Transitional Phrases Today we’ll use these three tools to reorganize a jumbled personal letter! Model text destruction Instructions: Below is a personal letter from Wang Ying to her friend Fang Lan — but the paragraphs are mixed up. Work in pairs to put them back in the correct order. Then explain your reasoning using: Time sequence Topic development Transitional phrases Model text destruction (A) Well, I must go now. I’ve got a presentation tomorrow and I need to finish my slides. I look forward to hearing all about what’s happening with you soon. All the best! Wang Ying (B) Hi, Fang Lan, How’s your life in Canada I hope you have adapted well to the new situation and are enjoying your new school. (C) I love my new senior secondary school. It’s much bigger than my junior secondary school and there’s a huge gym! Do you remember Xie Zijun Guess what – We’re in the same school! (D) It’s always good to have a friend, right Life in senior secondary school is very different from junior secondary school! You know, we don’t have a fixed classroom! We go to different classes for different subjects and also for different levels. I’m in the same class with Zijun for English and physics but in different classes for Chinese and maths. (E) You know, I like dancing so I’m in the Dancing Club. At the moment, we meet twice a week and we’re preparing to attend a competition. I think my new school gives me a chance to b ... ...
