Let’s Save Electricity
Oxford English 8B Unit3 Electricity--More Practice and Writing
Teaching objectives:
By the end of the lesson, the students are expected to be able to:
think about why and how to save electricity with the guide of the teacher based on what they’ve learnt in Unit 3
write a composition about Let’s save electricity with three parts—beginning, body and ending based on ‘Electricity works everywhere’ as structure and what they’ve discussed in class as content
apply the sentence pattern “Without electricity, …would/would not…” and modal verbs like “can/can’t, should/shouldn’t, must/mustn’t do…”
revise the article according to the checklist given by the teacher
Key points:
To stick to the topic and the basic structure of a composition
Learning difficulties:
To write the article covering all the given requirements
Teaching procedure:
Stages Learning activities Purposes
Warm-up Watch a video clip and answer some questions Complete the title for the text Electricity works everywhere 1. to engage students in the class 2. to lead in the topic of the text
Prewriting Understand the functions and features of the basic structure of a composition which contains three parts ‘Beginning+Body+Ending’ referring to the text of U3 More Practice Electricity works everywhere Answer more questions about the video clip and complete the title ‘Let’s save electricity’ of the article to be written Choose a better beginning for the topic and give the reasons Think about what questions can be asked to develop the “body” and choose the relevant topic sentence for each question Think of supporting details for the body part Q1: Why should we save electricity –from both positive and negative sides think of some positive adjectives to describe electricity and give examples discuss what would happen without electricity using the sentence pattern “Without electricity, …would/wouldn’t…” based on the examples in U3 More Practice Electricity works everywhere and personal experiences Q2: How can we save electricity answer ‘In which situations do we waste electricity in our daily life ’ discuss how to save electricity reflecting on the cases where we waste electricity by using modal verbs like “can/can’t, should/shouldn’t, must/mustn’t…” Choose the best example for the ending part and give reasons 1. to make a foundation for the application of the structure in the ‘writing’ stage 2. to lead in the topic of writing 3. to teach students how to write the ‘beginning’ part for this topic 4. to guide students to think about how to develop the topic in the ‘body’ part in two aspects—why and how 5. to lead students to review what they’ve learnt about electricity in U3 as content (supporting details) in the ‘writing’ stage 4. to consolidate students’ learning of the important language points and modal verbs in U3 as language material in the ‘writing’ stage 5.to extend students’ vocabulary related to ‘saving electricity’ 6. to teach students how to write the “ending” part for this topic
Writing Write a composition on the topic ‘Let’s save electricity’ stick to the topic and the basic structure use “Without electricity, …would/would not…” and modal verbs like ‘can/can’t, should/shouldn’t, must/mustn’t do…’ to let students apply what they’ve learnt in this class in aspects of structure, content and language
Post-writing Share some compositions Revise the articles according to the checklist 1. to instruct students to revise articles to raise their awareness of proofreading after writing 2. to help students review the key elements to be considered when writing a composition
Homework Revise the article according to the checklist and improve it. *Leave marks of editing. to let students consolidate and internalize what they’ve learnt in this class by working on their own