1、The Sixth Period Writing一、教学内容：Writing二、Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言重点词汇与短语suggest, persuade, observation, contributions, achieve, devote . to2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable the students to learn the way of persuasive writing and descriptive writing.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Learn how
2、to write a persuasive writing and a descriptive writing.三、Teaching important points 教学重点及难点Teaching important points教学重点Help the students to learn to write a persuasive writing and a report.Teaching difficult points教学难点How to write a report about a scientist and his / her job.四、教学准备Teaching methods
3、教学方法：Communicative approach， AudioVisual approach，Task-based activities.Teaching aids 教具准备：A recorder and a computer.五、教学时间六、学情分析：七、问题聚集:八、Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step Presentation Task 1: Summarize the way of writing a report.T: Now class, if we want to write a report about a scientist, w
4、hat contents should we include?S1: The life of the scientist, such as his birth and death dates, his family, his education, his personality, his achievements and contributions, his key factors to his success.T: Yes. You are right. And how do we make an outline about it?S2: We should put the collecte
5、d information under three headlines: life, achievements and key to success.Task 2: Remind the students of the writing techniques and writing features of a report.Show the following to the students. ReportFormal language with few adjectivesNo speech except quotationsNot emotional Only one main charac
6、terFactual structured according to experimental methodPast tense and passive voiceTask 3: Summarize the way of persuasive writing.T: You know if we want to persuade sb, we always want to reason with him or her. We must develop our own ideas and provide some evidence to support our ideas so there are
7、 always three steps to persuade somebody else to change his or her point of view. Can you point out what the three steps are?S1: I think the first is to give your opinion and idea.S2: The second is to give the reasons and evidence to support your idea.S3: The third is to make a conclusion.Show the f
8、ollowing to the students. A persuasive writingFormal or informal, vivid use of languageSpeech to show feelings, reactions, etcEmotional or not emotional to describe feelings and factsOnly two main charactersFactual or imaginative based on factReason and persuade step by step Present tenseThen ask th
9、e students to write a short letter as required in Exercise 3.A sample version:Dear Nicolaus Copernicus,I am a student studying history and I would very much like to read your new theory about the solar system. I hope you will publish it for several reasons. I understand the problems with the present
10、 theory. The way the planets move is not what you would expect if the earth was the centreof the universe. It is also odd that the brightness of some stars seems to change. So I agree with you that we need new theory.I know your observations have been very carefully carried out over many years. Now
11、you must have the courage to publish them. Science can never advance unless people have the courage of their beliefs. I know you worry about what will happen if you publish your new theory. No matter how people oppose it, time will show if your ideas are right or wrong.So I hope you can publish your
12、 new theory.Step WritingAsk the students to write a report about a scientist. Sample versions (见附件3, 4, 5)Step HomeworkAsk the students to do the Project on page 47.九、课堂板书：电脑WORD文档展示、课件十、课后反思：通过本单元的教学培养学生探究科学、崇尚科学的精神和正确的科学观；帮助学生了解科学的本质和科学家的特质，使学生懂得科学探究的基本步骤和要素；指导学生如何对科学家及其所从事的科研工作进行描述、发表看法，并针对自己的个性特征和兴趣专长，畅谈个人的职业志向和人生规划。
