语言素材

Dear Tom,

How’s everything getting along with you? I am sorry to know that you have had a tough time in recent days. Here are a couple of suggestions for you.

To begin with, it would be better if you engage in more outdoor exercise. What’s more, reading books can be a good way to help you through the hard time. Finally, you can talk more with your friends.

Hope my suggestions can help you. I am looking forward to your reply!

Yours,

Li Hua

Teaching content: This is a suggestion letter that Li Hua writes to his friend Tom.

Teaching objectives:

(1) knowledge objective:

Students can know how to write a suggestion letter to a friend with the right tense and format.

(2) ability objective:

Students can improve their abilities of writing a suggestion letter, such as mastering the right writing format, using fixed collocation.

(3) emotion objective:

By writing a suggestion letter to a friend, students can raise their awareness of caring about other and get interested in writing.

Teaching key and difficult points:

How to make students master the format of a suggestion letter and be able to write a letter to his/her friends.

教学过程：

Step1: Pre-writing (5mins)

(1) Reading

Students are asked to read the letter and find out the reason why Li Hua writes the letter to Tom.

Students are asked to read the letter again and outline the basic elements of writing a letter with their partners.

(2) Discussion

Students are invited to discuss with their partners about what suggestions they can give to

Tom if Tom says he wants to improve his oral English.

(Justification: Reading and discussion let students know the basic elements of a letter and

prepare for their writing.)

Step2: while-writing (10mins)

(1) Drafting

Show students the correct format of a letter and ask students to write a draft.

(2) Self-editing

Offer the writing standard to students, make them revise their letters on their own, and make

their attention focus on the following tips:

Use the tense correctly.

Use some good words and complex sentence patterns in the letter.

(3) Peer-editing

Ask students to edit their partner’s writings, check the ideas or the logical development, pay

attention to the grammar, spelling and punctuation of their writings.

(Justification: Drafting and editing make students write a letter with correct format and tense,

grammar, spelling and cultivate students’ good writing habit.)

Step3: Post-writing (5mins)

Sample show

Choose one or two students’ writings and show them to the whole class to find the advantages and disadvantages of them and give them some evaluations.

(2) Revising

Ask students to revise their articles according to the evaluations.

(Justification: Sample show and revising help students to know the standard of an excellent writing and improve their own writing ability.)