Composition of Introducing a Personal
Teaching aims:
Write a composition to introduce a person.
Teaching focus
Skills of writing a personal introduction.
Teaching difficulties
How to make the five sentences grammatically correct and smooth
Teaching steps
Step 1 read and answer
Show the students a picture of Charlie Chaplin and ask: ”Who’s he?”
Then ask and answer the following question after reading the text.
What does Charlie Chaplin do?
When was Charlie Chaplin born?
How was his family?
When did he die?
How was his childhood?
Would you say something about his famous character?
What honors did he get?
What are the comments on him?
Step 2 An introduction of factors of writing a personal introduction
”What is the text about?” --An introduction of Barack Obama
When writing a introduction we may write
1. age(date of birth), sex, birth-place, career, background
2. appearance, character
3. education
4. big events in his or her life (in order of time)
5. evaluation
Step 3
Samples of writing 1. age(date of birth), sex, birth-place, career, background
2. appearance, character 3. education 4. big events in his or her life (in order of time)
5. evaluation
Step 4 group work
Write the composition of introducing Charlie Chaplin on the given big paper in groups
Step 4 Grading and evaluation
Criteria:
five sentences
grammatically correct
fluency
neat handwriting
