Teaching Plan for Writing Course
(How to Beautify Your Composition?)
The General Idea of This Period：
This class we are going to deal with writing part in the college entrance examination, which mainly texts students’ English language using and expression. In this class, students will learn more about English writing and meanwhile they can develop the ability of appreciating and assessing English compositions. Furthermore they will try to adopt various advanced sentence patterns in their own writing and improve their writing ability.
Teaching Objectives:
Knowledge Objects
Students will be able:
1. To learn some advanced sentence patterns and structures.
2. To know better about writing part in the latest college entrance examinations.
3. To conclude some key points about how to write a good essay.
Ability Objects
Students will be able:
1. To use effective sentences to complete a coherent composition.
2. To foster their writing ability with the help of some writing strategies.
3. To assess some works and improve them by using what they obtained in this class.
Moral Objects
1. To cultivate students' interest of English writing.
2. To develop students' sense of cooperation with others to solve problems.
Teaching Important Points：
1. Help the students grasp the ability of assessing and writing English composition.
Teaching Difficult Points：
1. Enable students to write their own compositions using some advanced sentence patterns and structures.
Teaching Methods：
1. Task-based teaching methods.
2. Cooperative learning.
3. Group discussion to make every student take an active part in class.
Teaching Aids:Multi-media facilities; studying handouts
Teaching procedures:
Lead-in
Use a piece of short video to begin this class.
Part 1 自主学习(Autonomous Learning)
真题回顾
命题特点
1. 所选题材及体裁都非常贴近考生生活，紧扣与学生相关的社会热点及学生的生活与学习。
2. 词数要求在100-120之间，既要求表达事实信息，又要陈述个人观点，对考生思维和表达
能力的要求提高了。
3. 开头或/和结尾都已经给出，无文体要求，主要考查考生的表达能力以及语言运用能力。
参考答案特点
1. 词数都符合试题要求。
2. 都覆盖了所有要点，并进行了分段表达，基本上是3段。
3. 所用句型以简单句为主，但是使用了一定量的高级词汇，大量的短语和句型，丰富的句式
结构增强了表达的效果。
4. 都有效地使用了语句间的连接成分，使全文结构紧凑。
高考阅卷特点
1. 阅卷时间短。
2. 阅卷的速度快。
3. 阅卷老师的心理状态：给分中庸平均分15。
4. 高考卷其余部分是标准化计分。
Part 2 合作探究(Cooperative Learning)
HOW TO ADOPT A V ARIETY OF SENTENCE PATTERNS?
一、将两个简单句合并为并列句。
操作难度★★
写作效果★★
You can do it. I can do it. One of us must do it.
you I must do it.
二、主动句与被动句的互换。
操作难度★★★
写作效果★★★
1) The government should take immediate measures to deal with the present financial crisis.
2) People suggest that the conference be put off.
三、将陈述句改为感叹句。
操作难度★★★
写作效果★★★
1) To prevent the pollution is very important．
How ！
2) She is a clever girl．
What ！
四、It作形式主语或形式宾语句型。
操作难度★★★
写作效果★★★
1) You pretend to know what you don’t know. It’s no good.
2) It is easy to get on with Pam. I find.
五、将简单句改为强调句。
操作难度★★★
写作效果★★★★
1) Smoking did great harm to his health.
2) Our money is earned through hard work by our parents.
六、将陈述句改为倒装句。
1) I could hardly understand the importance of English at that time.
2) We did not realize our mistakes until at that time.
七、With引导的复合结构
操作难度★★★★
写作效果★★★★★
【推荐句型】
with+宾语+adj./adv./介词短语/to do/doing/done
1) 没有做完作业，这个小孩不敢去上学。
, the boy dared not go to school.
2) 这两个人早早就睡了，灯亮了一个晚上。
The two men went to bed early, .
八、分词结构代替状语/定语从句。
操作难度★★★★★
写作效果★★★★★
1) If you work harder, you will do better in the exam next time.
, you will do better in the exam next time.
2) Because my friend was frightened of losing his job, he said nothing to the police.
, my friend said nothing to the police.
九、将两个简单句合并为复合句。
操作难度★★★★★
写作效果★★★★★
1. 定语从句
1) The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, and its slogan is One World, One Dream.
2) In my opinion, the Great Wall and the Summer Palace are well worth visiting.
2. 主语从句
1) His wonderful performance on the stage impressed me.
most was his wonderful performance on the stage.
2) It satisfied me. Our school dining hall provides us with a large variety of kinds of dishes.
our school dining hall provides us with a large variety of kinds of dishes.
3. 表语从句
【推荐句型】
…is no longer what it used to be.
我的家乡不再像以前那样了。
4. 状语从句
【推荐句型】
让步状语从句：
no matter how/what/when/where…=whatever, however, whenever, wherever
时间状语从句：
…was doing…when …
1) 不管前面有多少困难，我们都要学会独立克服他们。
, we should learn to overcome them independently.
2) 我正沿着马路走，突然我听到有人叫我。
I along the road suddenly I heard my name
called.
Part 3 能力提升(Enhance Ability)
假设你是晨光中学高二(1)班的班长李津，得知美国学生Chris作为交换生，下学期将到你班学习。请你根据以下提示，给他写封邮件，开头已给出：
1.表示欢迎；
2.介绍与本地生活相关的信息(如天气，饮食等)；
3.介绍本班情况；
4.希望Chris做哪些事情，以增进中美学生之间的了解和友谊。
参考词汇：exchange student
Dear Chris,
I am Li Jin, monitor of Class One, Grade Eleven.
Yours
Li Jin Assess the giving composition with your partners and try to think more suggestions to improve the essay.
Summary of the class
Homework
Practice about changing sentence patterns to various and more advanced ones.