Teaching Aims:

Improve the students’ writing & speaking skills.

Difficult and Important Points:

1)Writing & “Peer response”

2)How to write a good composition in the limited time.(Ss are allowed to gather information about their composition beforehand.)

Teaching Methods:

Use the class activity “Peer response” to motivate the Ss writing interest, which can help them learn from each other.

Teaching Procedures:

Step I Warming up (5mins)

Talk about “Great”.

What thing or person do you think is great? Give an example.

Step II. Writing Task (P47) (20mins)

Choose a title beginning with “A Great …” to write a passage (200words or more) Or you can write a passage about A Great Scientist referring to writing tip on P47.

Step III. Peer Response

Group work: Peer Response (3 pluses and 1 wish) (15mins)

Peer Response

Class ________ Name:________ Date:________

Peer 1. Name:_________ Title:_______________________

+ _____________________________________________

+ _____________________________________________

+ _____________________________________________

? _____________________________________________

Peer 2. Name:_________ Title:______________________

+ _____________________________________________

+ _____________________________________________

+ _____________________________________________

? ______________________________________________

Step IV. Homework assignment

(1) Revise the composition and hand it in tomorrow.

(2) Review for tomorrow’s test.