Stage

Teaching Activity

Learning Activity

Purpose

Warming-up

Have the students listen to some beautiful sounds of water.

Listen and tell what they’ve heard.

To arouse the students’ interest and elicit the topic ‘Water’.

Pre-task Preparation

1.      Have a small quiz about water.

2.      Have a brief introduction of the common water program with our sister school.

Think and guess the meanings of these numbers and keep them in mind.

Have a further  understanding of the aim of this class.

To get students to know some more facts about water.

To inspire them to engage in this writing class.

While-task Procedure

1.      Ask students to brainstorm some more questions about water.

2.      Elicit the first question “What do we use water to do?” and help them to consolidate this part by having them play an “Act &Guess” game and do more practice in pairs.

3.      Elicit the second question “What will happen if there is no water?” and help them to consolidate this part by playing a Bingo game —“Finding the missing picture”.

4.      Elicit the third question “How can we save water?” and help them to consolidate this part by doing “Ask & Answer” according to the given pictures.

Think actively and try to raise the questions, the more the better.

Take part in the game actively and practice the sentence pattern in groups.

Keep all the pictures in mind and try to express the missing picture.

Practise in pairs according to the given pictures.

To provoke their thoughts and make a preparation for the next stage.

To have a revision of  the uses of water and consolidate the sentence pattern : “…use water to do…”

To have a revision of the importance of water and consolidate the sentence pattern : “If there is no water, …”

To have a revision of the ways of saving water and consolidate the sentence pattern : “We can save water by (not) doing …”

Post-task activity

1. Ask the students to write an article about water by providing them with some good expressions for reference.

2. Ask students to correct the articles with each other and choose the best one in their group to share in class.

Think carefully and try to write the article in terms of the questions which have been just discussed in class.

Correct the partner’s article carefully with the correction codes.

To develop the students’ writing skills and enhance the students’ cooperative spirit by peer correction.

Assignment

1.  Revise(修改) your compositions.

2.      Email your compositions to me and some of yours can be chosen to put in our Wiki Space to share with our sister school.