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Unit 1
Using language
Do you often go to the cinema?
Is it convenient for people with disability to go to the cinema?
What difficulties might he/she meet?
2
An architect is to build a new cinema and someone is trying to help the disabled in her way.
Ms L Sanders
A Letter to An Architect
* Who wrote the letter?
* To whom?
Beginning
Main body
Ending
2. How did Alice convey her writing purpose?
Part One Beginning
I hope you will not mind me writing to ask.....
I wonder if…
To design a new cinema.
To ask for some advice.
To ask the architect to think about the needs of disabled customers.
To build a cinema for disabled people.
1.What is the purpose of this passage?
Part Two Main body
How many suggestions did she give? Work in groups to fill in the blanks.
suggestions aspects sentence patterns
Adequate access for wheelchair lifts’ location and its buttons;doors
earphone for people with hearing problem
raised seated height
toilets location
car parking location
It would be handy…
Sth should be…
It would help to…
This would allow sb to do sth rather than doing sth
I’d like to suggest that…
It would be convenient to…
If…, … would be very happy
If… , it is easier for…
3.What’s the author’s hope?
She hopes her suggestions will meet with Ms Sanders’ approval.
Part Three Ending
4. How did Alice convey her hope?
① I hope my suggestions will meet with
your approval.
② I would appreciate it if you……
③ I hope you will find my suggestions useful.
A Letter to an Architect
Structure
The purpose.
The suggestions.
The hope.
The detail(s) of the suggestions
The reason(s)
The writing background
The transitional sentence
If you are writing to the school designer-Mr. Smith who will make improvements to our teaching building for the students with disability, what suggestions will you come up with?
Discussion
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