北师大版（2019)高中英语必修第一册Unit 1 Life Choices Writing workshop第1课时课件（19张ppt）

Unit 1 Life Choices
Writing Workshop
A Personal Email
Period 1
Warming-up
This is your new school. You are asked to introduce your new senior secondary school to somebody. Are you ready?
Warming-up
You are going to write an email to one of your (foreign) friends / former classmates about your new school life.
Ask and answer the following questions with your partner.
1 Who are you going to write to?
2 What do you want to tell him / her?
3 What do you want to know from him / her?
Warming-up
1 Who is he / she going to write to?
2 What does he / she want to tell him / her?
3 What does he / she want to know from him / her?
Report to the class about your partner’s answers.
Warming-up
My partner Amy is going to write to her pen pal in the UK. She wants to tell him her feelings about the new school, the differences between the previous school and the new one, etc. She wants to know whether he has made some new friends.
Read for writing
1 Who is Fang Lan?
Why is Wang Ying writing to her?
2 How does Wang Ying feel about her new school?
3 How does her new school life differ from junior
secondary school?
4 Why does Wang Ying have to finish the email?
Read the email and answer the questions.
Read for writing
1 Who is Fang Lan?
Why is Wang Ying writing to her?
An old friend in junior secondary school.
To say Hello.
To share her new senior secondary school life with Fang Lan.
To ask about Fang Lan’s new school life.
She loves her new senior secondary school.
“I like the ‘new me’”.
2 How does Wang Ying feel about her new
school?

Read for writing
3 How does her new school life differ from junior
secondary school?
They don’t have a fixed classroom.
They have many different clubs after class.
4 Why does Wang Ying have to finish the email?
She’s got a presentation tomorrow and she needs to finish her slides.
Focus on Structure
Label the elements (a-g) of the email above.
a ending and wishes b greeting
c subject line d reasons to finish writing
e questions about the other person
f information about one’s own life
g signature
c subject line
Hi Fang Lan,
How’s your life in Canada? I hope you have adapted well to the new situation and are enjoying your new school.
I love my new senior secondary school. It’s much bigger than my junior secondary school and there’s a huge gym! Do you remember Xie Zijun? Guess what –We’re in the same school! It’s always good to have a friend, right? Life in senior secondary school is very different from junior secondary school! You know, we don’t have a fixed classroom! We go to different classes for different subjects and also for different levels. I’m in the same class with Zijun for English and physics but in different classes for Chinese and maths. We also have many different clubs after class. You know, I like dancing so I’m in the Dancing Club. At the moment, we meet twice a week and we’re preparing to attend a competition. I think my new school gives me a chance to become a different person and I like the “new me”.
Well, I must go now. I’ve got a presentation tomorrow and I need to finish my slides. I look forward to hearing all about what’s happening with you soon.
All the best!

Wang Ying
Subject: Hello from an old friend
b greeting
e questions about the other person
f information about one’s own life
d reason to finish writing
a ending and wishes
g signature
Focus on Structure
Focus on Style
Read for style
Is the email formal or informal?
Why is it written this way?
Informal. Because it is an email to someone we know very well (friends, family members, etc.)
Template
Greeting 顶格写，段首缩进4个字母；段与段之间不空行。（纸质版建议格式）
段首不缩进，段与段之间空一行。
Focus on Style
Sum up the specific features of the formal style and informal style.
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Length of
sentences
Manners of speaking
Features of
expressions
Examples of
expressions
Formal

contain some polite words and expressions
Informal

Direct
longer,
complete
shorter
mild and
indirect
contain contractions缩写
and colloquial
or slang expressions
would you mind, please, thank you
yeah, sure, OK, cheers, thanks,
right
Focus on Style
Contractions
缩写
Punctuations
标点符号
Informal words/phrases
Examples
from the
sample
Find examples of informal expressions from the email and put them in the following table .
How’s... I’m...
She’s... I’ve...
It’s... Don’t...
What’s...
Dashes (—)
Exclamation points (!)
Hi, Guess what,
Right? You know,
Well, All the best!
That’s...
There’s...
I’d...
Let’s...
Hello, isn’t it?
Sorry! Great!
Come on,
Don’t you...
Suspension points (...)省略号
Colon (:)
Semicolon (;)
Apostrophe (’)
Other examples
Focus on Language
Analyze the sentence structures of the given sentences.
1 We don’t have a fixed classroom!

2 We are in the same class.
who
do
what
Subject
Verb
Object
who
Subject
be
Verb
place
Predicative
Focus on Language
Sentence Builder
Focus on Language
Focus on Language
Analyze the sentence structures of the given sentences.
3 There is a huge gym.

4 My school gave me a chance.
what
There
Real Subject
who
Subject
did
Verb
whom

what
Indirect Object
Direct Object
be
B
Sentence Builder
Focus on Language
Find more example sentences using the following sentence structures in the email.
Subject + Verb + Object
Subject + Verb + Predicative
There + Be + Real Subject
Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object

Focus on Language
Find more example sentences using the following sentence structures in the email.
Subject + Verb + Object
I love my new senior secondary school.
We have many different clubs.
Subject + Verb + Predicative
Life in senior secondary school is
very different from junior secondary school!
I ’m in the Dancing Club.
Sentence Builder
Assignment
According to what you have talked about in the dialogue with your partners, write 3-4 sentences about your school life that you want to tell your former classmates. Use the Sentence Builder to help you.
Goodbye!