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Lesson plan
How to Better Your Sentences
Period:Period1
Duration: 40minutes
Teaching material and learning condition
The analysis of teaching material
According to the outlines of College entrance examination in 2018, the life in campus is one of the writing topics. Certainly, all the teaching materials are closely related to this topic with every sentence for example and practice carefully collected from the composition part during the College entrance examination.
The analysis of learning condition
Although the students are senior3, they are very poor in English, especially writing. They have mastered some basic words and most of them can write a sentence with some errors in it. However, they do not know how to write a better sentence with certain skills.
Learning objectives
1. Language skills
Ss can find out the specific word or part which is able to be replaced by a better word or rewritten in a new sentence pattern.
2. Language knowledge
Ss can master the 20 alternative words and phrases and clearly know the sentence patterns to be used to improve the sentences.
3. Affects
Ss will realize that writing a better sentence is possible for them and relieve the fear of writing a composition.
Language focuses and anticipated difficulties
Language focuses
The focus is to develop students’ awareness of using better vocabulary and sentence patterns to make better sentences in writing. Many activities are designed to help Ss to find the reason why the second one is better and use the improving techniques to write their own better sentences.
Anticipated difficulties
As the Ss have a limited awareness of applying special sentence pattern or grammar knowledge into their writing, the teacher will directly present them 20 better words or phrases and 3 kinds of sentence patterns to be used in their writing so that they can first have the awareness of using what they have learned in high school to improve the quality of their composition and know in which way they can better their sentences.
Teaching aids
Multimedia devices and PPT documents
Teaching procedures
Step1.Warming up
Present two pictures of the teacher and let the students know how to better a person’s appearance.
[Aims] In this step, T use two pictures which indicate the way of bettering one’s appearance to get the students’ attention focused as well as to ease their intensity. Besides, this also can pave a way to the topic how to make our writing better.
Step2. Lead in
Show the students two pieces of writing with different grades. And then lead the students to find in which way the second one is better than the first one.
[Aims] In this step, the Ss will have a basic understanding two ways to improve a sentence and make it clear that we are going to learn two ways of bettering the composition.
Step3. Two principles of bettering the vocabulary
Activity1. Students will be given 3 couples of sentences with vocabulary learned later in the second one. By observing, the students are expected to conclude that a word acquired latter is usually better than one acquired earlier.
Activity2. Students will be given 3 couples of sentences with the second one in each couple applying phrase to replace the word used in the first sentence. By observing the students are expected to conclude that a phrase is generally better than a word with the same meaning.
Activity3.Students need to try to remember about twenty better words or phrase which can be used later.
as long as: on condition that related: relevant
impress: leave a deep impression on plan to do: intend to do
try to do: spare no efforts to do prepare: make preparations for
however: nevertheless very: extremely
consider: take …into consideration support: approve of/be in favor of
tired: exhausted/worn-out solve: cope with/deal with
for example: for instance many: many a/a majority of
be good at: have a good command of/have strength in because of: due to
Activity4.Students will complete two exercises to consolidate what they have learned in this part.
[Aims] By doing the former two activities, the Ss will harvest two relatively simple ways to better their writing. Since the vocabulary bettering is deeply based on the process of accumulating, students can get more than 20 better words and deepen the impression in activity4.
Step4. Improving the sentence pattern
Activity1. Students will be given 9 couples of sentences respectively with emphatic pattern, partial inversion, non-restrictive attributive clause led by which and then they are supposed to feel which one is better.
Activity2. After they appreciate the change of the sentence brought by emphatic pattern, inversion, non-restrictive attributive clause led by which, they will be asked to finish some exercise to practice these three skills.
[Aims] By doing activity1, the students can understand the sentences used emphatic pattern, inversion, non-restrictive attributive clause led by which is definitely better than the original ones. So they will further be aware of using these there skills. Activity 2 is designed to make the students apply these three skills into practice.
Step5. Practice and presentation
In this part, the teacher use a piece of writing picked out from the composition that the students wrote 2 days ago as the practice material. The students are supposed to use the skills learned to better the original ones.
[Aims] The part serves to be an output of the class and an evaluation of their learning.
Step5. Homework (1min)
Write a composition by using the skills of bettering sentences learned today
Blackboard design
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