1、Are you still in touch with your junior secondary school classmates?A Personal EmailPeriod 1UNIT 1 WRITING WORKSHOPWarming Up You are going to write an email to one of your junior secondary school classmates about your new school life.Ask and answer the following questions with your partner(Ex.I):1)
2、Who are you going to write to?2)What do you want to tell him/her?3)What do you want to know from him/her?Warming Up Report to the class about your partners answers:1)Who is he/she going to write to?2)What does he/she want to tell him/her?3)What does he/she want to know from him/her?Reading for conte
3、nts Read the email on your handout to answer the following questions(Ex.II):1)Who is Fang Lan?Why is Wang Ying writing to her?2)How does Wang Ying feel about her new school?3)How is her life in senior secondary school different from junior secondary school?4)Why does Wang Ying have to finish the ema
4、il?Reading for contents Read the email to answer:1)Who is Fang Lan?Why is Wang Ying writing to her?An old friend in junior secondary school.To say Hello.To share her new senior secondary school life with Fang Lan.To ask about Fang Lans new school life.Reading for contents Read the email to answer:2)
5、How does Wang Ying feel about her new school?She loves her new senior secondary school.“I like the new me”.Reading for contents Read the email to answer:3)How is her life in senior secondary school different from junior secondary school?They dont have a fixed classroom.They have many different clubs
6、 after class.Reading for contents Read the email to answer:4)Why does Wang Ying have to finish the email?Shes got a presentation tomorrow and she needs to finish her slides.Reading for structure Label the elements on the left of the email.(Ex.3)a.ending and wishes b.greetingc.subject line d.reason t
7、o finish writinge.questions about the other person f.information about ones own lifeg.signatureReading for structureC.Subject lineSubject:Hello from an old friend Hi,Fang Lan,Hows your life in Canada?I hope you have adapted well to the new situation and are enjoying your new school.I love my new sen
8、ior secondary school.Its much bigger than my junior secondary school and theres a huge gym!Do you remember Xie Zijun?Guess what Were in the same school!Its always good to have a friend,right?Life in senior secondary school is very different from junior secondary school!You know,we dont have a fixed
9、classroom!We go to different classes for different subjects and also for different levels.Im in the same class with Zijun for English and physics but in different classes for Chinese and maths.We also have many different clubs after class.You know,I like dancing so Im in the Dancing Club.At the mome
10、nt,we meet twice a week and were preparing to attend a competition.I think my new school gives me a chance to become a different person and I like the“new me”.Well,I must go now.Ive got a presentation tomorrow and I need to finish my slides.I look forward to hearing all about whats happening with yo
11、u soon.All the best!Wang YingB.GreetingE.Questions about the other personF.Information about ones own lifeD.Reason to finish writingA.Ending and wishesG.SignatureReading for Style Read the email again to figure out:Is the email formal or informal?Why is it written this way?We write informal or perso
12、nal emails to someone we know very well(friends,family members,etc.)Reading for StyleContractionsPunctuationsInformal words/phrasesExamples from the sample Find examples of informal expressions from the email and put them in the following table(Ex III).Hows.Im.Shes.Ive.Its.Dont.Whats.Dashes(-)Exclam
13、ation points(!)Hi,Guess what,Right?You know,Well,All the best!Thats.Theres.Id.Lets.Hello,isnt it?Sorry!Great!Come on,Dont you.Suspension points(.)Colon(:)Semicolon(;)Other examples Analyse the sentence structures of the given sentences.1)We dont have a fixed classroom!2)We are in the same class.Focu
14、s on LanguagewhodowhatSubject VerbObjectwhoSubjectbeVerbwhatPredicativeFocus on Language Analyse the sentence structures of the given sentences.3)There is a huge gym.4)My school gave me a chance.bewhatThere Be Real SubjectwhoSubjectdoVerbwho whatIndirect ObjectDirect ObjectFocus on LanguageFind more
15、 example sentences using the following sentence structures in the email.Subject+Verb+ObjectSubject+Verb+PredicativeThere+Be+Real SubjectSubject+Verb+Indirect Object+Direct Object Focus on Language Find more example sentences using the following sentence structures in the email.Subject+Verb+Object I
16、love my new senior secondary school.We have many different clubs.Subject+Verb+Predicative Life in senior secondary school is very different from junior secondary school!I m in the Dancing Club.Focus on Language According to what you have talked about in the dialogue with your partner,write 4 sentences about your new school life by following the sentence structures.(Ex.IV)Homework Add more sentences to your list.Subject+Verb+Object Subject+Verb+Predicative There+Be+Real Subject Subject+Verb+Indirect Object+Direct Object
