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Reading for Writing & Building Up Your Vocabulary
Welcome Unit
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Have a good understanding of how to write a person's profile properly.
Figure out and summarize the structure and language features of the profile.
Learn some language points.
Brithday
Name
Brithplace
School
Personality
Dream
Age
Hobbies
How to introduce yourself to others?
Step 1 Lead-in
Can you tell me something about yourself?
1. Do you know all of your classmates’ names?
2. Do you want to know more about their hobbies, personalities, learning styles and future dreams?
A student profile may help you know others more.
Lead-in
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What is “a student profile”?
Student Profile
A student profile provides information about a student, and the information can be presented and used in different ways.
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Read the student profiles and discuss the questions.
Ann, 15
Lakeside
High School
the USA
Thando, 16
South Hill High School
South Africa
Pre-writing
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Step 2 Reading
What is Ann like? How do you know?
What does “You will never see me without a book or a pen” mean?
Which profile do you like better? Why?
She is active and curious. We know this from the second, third and fourth sentences.
It means he nearly always has a book or pen with him, because he likes to study.
Thando Gowon’s profile. Because I can know him better though this profile.
The first profile. Because it is short but detailed.
Ann
A. Name, age, grade, school
E. Hobbies
C. Favourite subject
B. Personality
A. Name, age, grade,school
F. Future plans and dreams
D. Learning style
Ann, 15, Lakeside High School, Grade 10
active, curious
physics
ask questions, but learn best by doing
dancing, skating,
reading short stories.
to become an engineer in the future
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Thando
A. Name, age, grade, school
E. Hobbies
C. Favourite subject
B. Personality
A. Name, age, grade,school
F. Future plans and dreams
D. Learning style
Thando, 16, South Hill High School, Grade 10
fast-thinking, hard-working
computer science
spend every minute in studying;
take no