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Unit 2 Natural disasters
Integrated skills
Continuing a story about a flood(II)
Leading in
A painting
A photo
What do we know was happening from the pictures?
How could you feel if you were trapped in the house?
Pre-writing
Words & Phases
Go through some words and phrases to make sure that all the students can fully understand the whole story.
Listening
Listen for character and setting.
Character who
Setting when
where
Mary 、Mum and Dad
On a rainy day
In the living room
Reading
Read for the storyline and emotion line and predict the story.
beginning
development
climax
development
ending
story
mountain
Mary and her parets were trapped at home in a storm .
Mary wanted to but her parents thought it was too .
Mary and her parents didn't know .
?
?
nervous
scared
worried
leave
dangerous
what to do
happy
grateful
positive
be saved
Design the plot
Ask questions based on the first sentences given.
Para.1: After a brief discussion, Mum and Dad made a decision.
Q1:What's their decision? Stay or leave? Why?
Q2:How could they save themseves?
Q3:Then what were they doing? How did they feel?
Design the plot
Ask questions based on the first sentences given.
Para.2: Finally, the rain stopped, but Mary and her family could not leave.
Q1:How did they feel when the rain finally stopped?
Q2:Will any new characters appear to rescue them? Yes or no?
How were they saved?
Predicting
1.What kind of ending should we give?
The whole family were rescued successfully.
2.What’s the theme of this story?
Selfless love.
In picture 1: It was a storming day. The wind and the rain .
A house with the door and all the windows . The trees beside it and a car .
Describe what you see in the
2 pictures.
In picture 2: The rain stopped but the whole town . Two armed soldiers were running a boat .
Writing Direction
roared
beat on the roof
and windows
was surrounded by water
shut tightly
were bent by the strong wind
was caught in the moving
water, like a boat
was flooded
to move people to safe places
While-writing
Divide the whole class into 8 groups.
All the group members discuss the plot and each member had their task.
(15 minutes is given)
Group work
After-writing
Writing Criteria(评价标准)
*Your story should be positive.
*Your story should be well connected to the given passage and the beginnings of the two paragraphs.
*Your story should be coherent(连贯),logical and reasonable.
*Your writing should be rich in vocabulary, grammar items and sentence patterns.
What makes a good continuation writing?
Summary
Steps to continue a story
Step1:Reading
basic information/plots/feelings/theme/tense
Step2:Predicting
the two given sentences, reasonable and positive plots
Step3:Writing
details, sentence structures, language styles and
transitional words
Step4:Polishing
refer to the Writing Criteria
Homework
Polish your writing after class.
Thank you!
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