课件30张PPT。Where there is a will, there is a wayUnit 4Writing开县陈家中学 邓文英 Suppose you are a reporter from the Zhejiang University school newspaper and your partner is Stephen Hawking. Ask himher the following questions to learn more about Stephen Hawking……. Group work Task OneMy children was like sunshine, very happy1) What was your childhood like?
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2) How did you decide what to study when you were young?
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3) How were your studies at that time?
_____________________________……. Group work I decided to study mathsMy studies were very easy. 4) Why did you choose cosmology as the focus of your research?
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5) Why are you bound to a wheelchair ?
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6) How did you deal with your problem?
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7) What are the main factors that help you to succeed these years?
……. Group work Because no one worked in that area in Oxford at that time. Because I has suffered from a serious diseaseI faced it and overcame it.They are strong-minded, hard working, perseverant and so on. Debate how to describe people
from Steven Hawking’s story…….Task Two Group work Use past tense
Mostly Verb used
Proper conjunction
Structure----beginning (when where who ) developing (what how why) climate (conflict) ending
Point of view
…….Task Two Group work What are you
doing?Task ThreeTalking about the pictureI'm making the iron into a needle.
how long will it take you to finish making the needle?I don’t know. But if
I die before I finish,
I will leave this
work to my son. And if my son dies before it is finished, he will leave this work to my grandchildren. Someday, this piece of iron will be a needle.
We have learned this dialogue. Have you retold a dialogue in indirect speech? Task fourFrom this story, what can we learn from ?Where there is a will, there is a way.
The following is an unfinished story about the picture and dialogue. Try to provide a title for the story and complete it with your own sentences.
You may write down your first draft on a piece of paper.
Task five ________________
A long time ago, there lived an old woman who was very patient. Every day, she sat in front of her house doing the same job, patiently sharpening a piece of iron.
Can a piece of iron be made into a needleOne day, a little girl was passing, she was so curious that she came up to ask the old woman
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The old woman told her thatWhat she was doingShe was making the piece of iron into a needle.The girl was surprised because The piece of iron was so big and a needle was so tiny.So she asked the old woman How long it would take her to finish making the needle.The old woman saidShe didn’t know. But she would leave this work to her son if she died before she finished, her son would leave this work to his grandchildren. if her son died before it was finished, Someday, the piece of iron would be a needle.
The story tells us where there is a will, there is a way 3. Exchange your story with your partner’s and check the following
aspects so as to make the story better.
□ grammar □ spelling
□ vocabulary □ tenses
□ sentence structures
□ punctuation
Task sixWriting某中学生英语报社举办2005感动中国观后感征文。你被2005感动中国人物洪战辉深深感动。根据下面提示写一篇征文,投给这家报社。
1.1982年出生于河南农村。
2.1994年发,父亲得了精神病,并在当年捡来一个刚出生的女弃婴。
3.1995年,母亲不堪重负离家出走。
4.他边学习边照顾捡来的妹妹和生病的父亲,担负着常人难以想象的重担考上大学,并一直带着妹妹上大学,照看她。
写作要求:尝试用5个句子(不包括已给出的部分)表达全部的内容。
参考词汇:2005感动中国 Touch China 2005 Writing Steps
为了化难为易,突破重点,可将文章分解成15个简单句。用3个短句合成一个复合句或者并列句,这样形成5个长句,构成了基础写作的基本框架。 Group1
1.Recently,I watched Touch China 2005 on TV.
2.I was moved by the story of Hong Zhanhui.
3.He was born in Henan Province in 1982 Sentence1: Recently,I watched Touch China 2005 on TV and was moved by the story of Hong Zhanhui,who was born in Henan Province in 1982Group2
1.He was 12.
2.His father got mental disease.
3.One day he brought home an abandoned new-born girl.Sentence2 When he was 12,His father got mental disease and brought home an abandoned new-born girl.
Group3
1.His mother suffered from the heavy burden.
2.Ayear later,his mother deserted the family.
3.Hong began to shoulder the responsibility for taking care of his little sister and sick father. Sentence3 A year later, his mother, suffering from the heavy burden, deserted the family and Hong began to shoulder the responsibility for taking care of his little sister and sick father.
Group4
1.Hong loved school and studied hard.
2.He was finally admitted to college.
3.He took his sister with him and continued to care for her. Sentence4 Hong, loved school and studied hard, was finally admitted to college,but he took his sister with him and continued to care for her.Group5
1.Personally, I hold the view.
2.There are many good qualities in Hong worth our learning.
3.The qualities are his sense of responsibility,courage and above all a loving heart. Sentence5
Personally, I hold the view that there are many good qualities in Hong worth our learning--- his sense of responsibility, courage and above all a loving heart. 4. Revise your first draft and then write down your final copy in your exercise book. Here is a checklist for you.
1) Did you give a title to your story?
2) Did you write the title with a capital letter?
3) Did you put the title in the center of the top the page?
4) Did you indent the first line of each paragraph?
5) Did you capitalize the first word in each sentence and end each sentence with a period?
Surf the Internet to find more stories about the importance of persistence and then make up a story of your own.
Homework See you later