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Reading for Writing
Unit 1 Teenage life
A Letter of Advice
----- by Ji Mei
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Teaching Objectives:
read a letter and analyze the organization and language features;
write a letter of advice with proper expressions to help a teenagers;
give evaluation on your partner's draft using the checklist;
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Lead in
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Puppy love
Peer pressure
Generation gap
Cyber addiction
As a teenager, what problem do you have in your daily life?
communicating face to face with the person concerned
Facing these problems, how will you seek for help?
turning to friends for help
asking for advice on social media
writing a letter to a professional adviser
Pre-writing
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2. Read the letter of advice and study the organization and language features.
1. Susan Luo, an adviser for teenagers, has received a letter asking for some advice. Read her reply and discuss the questions.
1 What is Worried Friend's problem?
2 What are Susan Luo's advice?
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Worried Friend is worried that his or her friend, Chen Lei, plays computer games too often and spends too much time online.
Worried Friend can talk to his friend about his behaviour and encourage his friend to try new hobbies.
1 Do you think Ms Luo's advice is useful? Why or why not?
2 What other kinds of advice would you give?
Perhaps the advice is useful, because it is always good to talk to a friend about his or her problems and offer advice.
I would tell Chen Lei that he should spend his time more productively with an eye on his future. For example, instead of playing computer programming. Who knows? He might become a great figure in that field when he's older.
2. Study the organisation and language features.
What are necessary parts of a letter?
Date, greeting, body, close, and signature.
10 September 2018
Dear Worried Friend,
You wrote that you are very worried about your friend, Chen Lei. I understand quite well that you are anxious and feel terrible. You think that your friend plays computer games too often and spends too much t