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ENGLISH WRITINGActivity sheetTeaching Aims:Knowledgegoals:1. Throughthiscourse,trytoenablesustograspthebasicwritingsteps.2. Trytomasterthebasicwritinginformationaboutthemaincharacter.Affectivegoals:1. Trytoestablishgreataspirationsthroughtheintroductionofthemaincharacter.2. GetthestudentstoImprovetheirmoralqualityanddevelopgoodthinkinghabitsStrategygoals:1.Trytopresentthetask-basedteachingmethodthroughgroupdiscussion,cooperation,exploration.2.Trytogetthestudentstoenhanceconfidenceinwriting,inordertoimprovetheirwritingabilities.Teaching procedures:Activity 1 Checking and leading-in Task 1. Check the homework(Five sentences)1. 如果你想在IT行业获得一席之地，就得加倍努力了。If you want to have a place in the IT world, youll have to double your effort.2. 他们很高兴自己的努力没有白费。They were very happy that their efforts had not been in vain.3. 越来越多的年轻人正面临失业，这让许多人感到不安。An increasing number of young people are facing unemployment, which is disturbing to many.4. 他努力抓住一切可能的机会练习英语口语。He tried to seize every possible chance to practise his spoken English.5. 中国政府一直在致力于改善教育体制。The Chinese government is always committing itself to improving the education system.Task 2 Introduce writing methods. Do you know how to write a person and how to organize the article? As we all know, if we want to introduce a famous person., we must collect his information first, for example: birthday and birthplace, that is the basic information. Family background and education background should be included as well. Besides these, some big events in his or her life are the most important. From the events we can judge a person, we can learn a lot from the person. Perhaps we can add some evaluation at the end of the introduction.Activity 2. Learning how to write a famous person.Task 1. Lead-in Today we are going to learn how to introduce a famous person in English.假设你是李华，最近你的英国好友Henry 向询问关于我国伟大的思想家、政治家、教育家孔子的情况。请根据下表提供的信息，给他写一封电子邮件，简要介绍孔子的生平和他的历史影响。孔子生于公元前551年；他20岁起就关注天下大事，思考如何治理国家；他一生大部分时间从事教育，弟子三千多人；他知识渊博，被称为无所不知的圣人；他55岁带领弟子周游列国，宣扬仁政；卒于公元前479年个人观点注意：1 对所给要点逐一陈述，可适当发挥，不要简单翻译； 2 开头已写好，不计入总词数。参考词汇: saint 圣人 benevolence 仁 Confucianism 儒学 almighty 无所不知的Dear Henry, I am very glad to tell you something about Confucius. He was a great thinker, politician and educator in ancient China.Task 2. Analyse main points1. 孔子生于公元前551年，卒于公元前479年。Key phrases: be born in, pass away Expressions: Confucius was born in 551BC and passed away in 479BC. 2. 他20岁起就关注天下大事，思考如何治理国家。Key phrases: focus/fix his attention on, be concerned about Expressions: When he was in his twenties, he fixed his attention on state affairs and was concerned about how to manage a country. 3. 他一生大部分时间从事教育，弟子三千多人。Key phrases: take up, devote/dedicate oneself to , Expressions: He devoted most of his life to teaching and had more than three thousand students. 4. 他知识渊博，被称为无所不知的圣人。Key phrases: have a good knowledge, learned, recognize/refer to/consideras Expressions: He was so knowledgeable and learned that he was referred to as almighty saint. 5. 他55岁带领弟子周游列国，宣扬仁政。Key phrases: lead sb. around the world, promote/spread Expressions: At the age of 55, he started a journey with his students to visit other countries and promoted benevolence in governing the country. Task 3. Present some transition words递进型： also, besides, whats more, moreover, furthermore, in addition, even, whats worse, worse still, to make matters/things worse, not only but also等；解释型：that is (to say), in other words, or, in fact, in reality, as a matter of fact等；转折型：however, but, yet, nevertheless, instead, on the contrary ,on the other hand 等；列举型：firstlysecondlyfinally, on the one hand, on the other hand, for one thing, for another (thing)等举例型：for example, for instance, such as, that is, like, take for example等；因果型：because (of), since, now that, thanks to, due to; thus, therefore, as a result (consequence),so that, so that等；总结型：in a/one word, to sum up, in short, on the whole, in c