20分钟微型课教学设计M1-U1 writing

Unit 1 Friendship

Period 4 Reading and Writing

I. Teaching aims

A. To enable students to write a letter to ask for advice;

B. To develop students’ writing skills;

C. To make students realize the importance of friendship, and stimulate their team-work spirit.

II. Important and difficult problems

A. To enable students to know how to write a letter to ask for advice;

B. To help students adopt proper expressions to express what they want better.

III. Learning methods

A. Cooperative learning

B. Group discussion

IV. Teaching methods

A. Teaching Based on Language Tasks

B. Situational language teaching approach

V. Teaching process

A. Lead-in

a. Do you have any friends?

b. If your friend is in trouble, what will you do?

c. Actually, I have a friend named Xiao Dong. He is in trouble now, let’s help him together, ok?

B. Reading

a. Read the letter and find out his trouble.

C. Discussion

Work in groups to discuss the following questions:

a. What can he do to deal with the trouble?

b. Why should he do like this?

D. Writing

a. Based on what you have discussed, you can write a letter to give Xiao Dong some advice.

b. First, you can choose three of the ideas and put them into an order; then, write down your advice and give your reasons; finally, each advice makes one paragraph.

E. Conclusion

a. “A life without a friend is a life without the sun.”

b. You should realize the importance of friendship and write a letter like this to give them advice when they are in trouble.

F. Homework

a. Refine your letter and rewrite it on your notebook.

VI. Blackboard design

Unit 1 Friendship

Reading and Writing

1. Choose some advice

2. What to do

Reasons

3. Each advice-one paragraph