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Unit 1 LifeChoices
Writing Workshop&Reading Club
【学习目标】
1.学习能力目标
(1)能够借助关键词,在理解文章大意的基础上,找出段落主题句,完成读前问题;
(2)用所学的词汇和语言的对课文进行复述;
(3)能够借助已知的关键信息,适当补充辅助信息,写出完整的电子邮件。
2.语言能力目标
(1)能够正确运用以下简单句句式结构进行邮件写作:Subject +Verb +Object; Subject +Verb +Predicative; There +Be +Real Subject; Subject +Verb +Indirect Object +Direct Object;
(2)能正确认知并且运用以下词汇和短语:include, occasion, trend, increasingly, inspire, provide, come up with, weary, digestion, opportunity, entertainment, community, stressful, miss doing sth, be busy doing sth, cut off等。
【学习重难点】
1.重点
(1)如何使用地道、恰当的语言进行邮件书写;
(2)正确理解并运用简单句结构以及-ed和-ing形容词的表达;
(3)礼貌进行日常对话。
2.难点
(1)能用得体的英语书写邮件;
(2)能正确识别-ed形容词和-ing形容词的使用语境。
【学习过程】
写作课
1. How would you write an email about your new school life?
2. Read the email on Page 18 and answer the following questions:
(1) Who is Fang Lan? Why is Wang Ying writing to her?
(2) Is the email formal or informal? Why is it written this way?
3. Find and circle examples of
- Contractions (e.g., don’t)
- Informal words and phrases (e.g., well)
Dashes (—) and exclamation marks (!)
4. Use the elements in Activity 3 on Page 19 to label the email on Page 18.
5. Look at the Sentence Builder and make 2–3 sentences about the school life. Pay attention to the sentence structure.
6. Complete the outline of the email based on the writing sample and Activity 3 on Page 19.
7. Use the outline and the Writing Help to write the first draft.
8. Edit your email in pairs.
阅读课
Teatime
1. What do you know about tea culture?
2. Try to predict the passage that will be talked about based on the titles and the first sentence or the first paragraph.
3. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- Why did the Duchess of Bedford invite friends to come for tea in the afternoon?
4. What are the similarities and differences between English and Southern Chinese tea culture?
City or Country?
1. What are the differences between the city and the country? Which do you like better and why?
2. Guess the differences living in London and the Isle of Wight.
3. List the advantages and disadvantages of city life and country life by completing the mind map on Page 23.
4. What does the writer mean by saying “I think it isn’t about where you live – it’s about how you live” in the last paragraph?
5. Do you agree with the writer’s conclusion? Why or why not?
精炼反馈
1.根据要求写出对应英文或中文和词性。
(1) duchess ______________
(2) 提出(词组)______________
(3) weary ______________
(4) laid-back ______________
(5) opportunity _____________
(6) increasingly ___________
(7) trend ___________
(8) occasion__________
(9) community __________
(10) stressful __________
(11) 错过做某事(句型) __________________________
(12) 忙于做某事(句型) _____________________________
2.语篇语法填空。
What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help others you’ll get it.
I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in 1__________ small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son 2__________ (die) in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others 3________ a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first 4________ (clean) the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of 5__________ (laugh) and love.
But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk 6________ (noisy) in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time, 7_________ they will never get true happiness because they 8_________ (lose) their personality already.
Now I know what happiness is. 9_________ means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that 10_________ (bring) happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.
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