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Writing about development,Unit,1,Task,Unit 1,课件描述：,Help students learn to use emotive language to express how they feel about something. Teach students to write an essay. Help students develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.,Our task is to write an essay using objective language, providing facts and figures, giving examples and discussing future probability.,Aim,Analysis,Skills Building 1: Recognizing language that expresses feelings,Skills Building 2: discussing the future,Skills Building 3: writing an essay,How do you feel when you see the pictures?,People use emotive language to express how they feel about something.,Skills building 1: recognizing language that express feelings,wonderful, glorious, exceptional,terrible, horrifying, awful,It weighed a ton!,Skills building 1,2. Exaggerations Exaggerations are often used to stress how one feels, e.g.,“I could sleep for a thousand years!” and “It weighed a ton!”,1. Thank you very much. 2. She is very pretty. 3. He laughed heartily 4. She is feeling much better today. 5. She cried really bitterly. 6. He was making a loud noise in the house.,She is prettiest girl in the world. He almost died laughing C. Thanks a million. D. She cried her eyes out. E. Shes feeling miles better today. F. He raised the roof.,句子匹配 （匹配原句和右列运用夸张法的句子),C,A,B,E,D,F,People use emotive language to express how they feel about something.,wonderful, glorious, exceptional,terrible, horrifying, awful,It weighed a ton!,angry, sad, pleased, amused,Step 1: asking about life in the past During the past twenty years, great changes have taken place in our country, especially in education, transport, buildings, jobs and environment. 1. Listen to an interview and take notes in the table.,walked or rode,bus,taxi,small houses,school,new department,a bike,store,fish,tourism,rubbish,polluted,2. Listen to the conversation again and fill in the missing words. Exaggeration as cold as _ sleep for _ as _ as a mountain as _ as a whale,ice,a hundred years,big,big,3. Listen to your grandfathers talk and take notes, then fill in the blanks in the old newspaper article using the information from your notes.,type of restaurant: _ location: _ jobs: _,catering industry,seafood,top floor,waiters,Publishing industry,Clothing industry,Tourism industry,clothes being sold: made by _. Author made appearances at the Readers Bookstore: authors from _. types of business: travel agencies and tourist _.,local people,around the area,information office,answers to the article: (1) shopping centre (2) food service (3) Seafood (4) chef (5) authors (6) tourist (7) tourism,Skills building 2: discussing the future,What will happen in the future? If you are certain that something is or is not going to happen in the future, you can use the following phrases: It will (not) It will certainly (not) It is (not) going to ,If you expect something to happen or not to happen in the future but are not very certain, you can use the following phrases: It will probably (not) It is (not) likely to It should (not) ,When something in the future is not a certainty but only a possibility, you can use the following phrases: It may (not) It could (not) It might (not) ,If you think that something has no chance at all of happening in the future and want to express this in strong terms, you can use the following expressions. However, you should be careful in doing so as this is usually considered very rude: no way out of question not in a million years,Step 2: interviewing the City Development Council Practice how to interview with your partner using predictions. e.g. (not) (very) certain possible no chance at all,Skills building 3: writing an essay When writing an essay, it is very important that you structure it in an ordered way. Otherwise, it will not make sense to readers. To do this, you should divide the information into sectionsthe introduction, the main body and the conclusion. Besides following the structure, you should also:,In my opinion, I think,The United Nations reported that one out of every five children in the world live in poverty.,In one village in Africa, there is a family of ten. All of the family members are ,In the future, it will probably develop into the biggest industry in the area.,Homework: 1. Write an essay on the development of your town for the writing competition. 2. Preview the Project part.,Homework,Write a letter to tell your friend about the development of your city.,Period two,Ask students to exchange their essays and correct the possible mistakes and then the teacher just give some examples.,
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