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B2U6 Earth First
Writing a persuasive letter
They didn’t have enough food.
They were facing famine(饥荒).
A large amount of food has been wasted.
As students, what can we do?
1. Cherish food.
2. Stop wasting.
4. Call on other peole to save food.
3. ...
Activity 1: View and Answer
Suppose we are to write a letter to call on everyone in our school to take part in the Clear Your Plate campaign(运动), how will you write the letter?
Dear Friends,
We are writing this letter to call on everyone to take part in the Clear Your Plate campaign. It urges people to save food by not wasting anything on the dining table. You may not know over 30% of the world's food is wasted, while many people in poor areas do not have enough to eat. In order to save food, we propose:
1 Do not order more than you need in the school canteen.
2 Order less and take leftover food home when dining in restaurants. 3 Call on family members and friends to take part in the campaign.
Reducing daily food waste by just 5% could save millions of people from starvation. Let's start doing what we can to make the world a greener, cleaner place.
With best wishes,
Class 8
Activity 2: Read and answer
Read the following letter and answer the questions.
1. What is the purpose of the letter?
2. What is the existing problem?
3. What are the proposed actions from Class 8?
4. What’s the genre(体裁) of the letter?
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Genre
—Persuasive Letter
A public and persuasive article is written to initiate an activity.
The general public, or people from schools, companies, units, even a region are often the participants.
倡议书是为倡议、发起某项活动而写的公开的、具有号召性的文章。
它的受众往往是广大群众、或是学校、公司、单位的所有人、或是一个地区的所有人。
What aspects are included in the writing?
1. Proper greeting;
2. Clear purpose of the letter;
3. The existing problem;
4. Proposed actions;
5. Encouraging appeal;
6. Sincere wish+signature
Activity 3: Read and answer
Analyze(分析) & Appreciate(欣赏)
—Language that is used
Clear purpose of the letter:
eg. We are writing this letter to call on everyone to...
eg. We are writing this letter to raise your awareness of...
eg. The purpose of this letter is to...
Analyze(分析) & Appreciate(欣赏)
—Language that is used
The existing problem:
eg. You may not know that...
eg. Do you know that...
eg. As is known to us all, ...
giving facts;
making comparison...
listing numbers;
Writing skills:
eg. We are concerned that ...
eg. The biggest concern is that...
Analyze(分析) & Appreciate(欣赏)
—Language that is used
Proposed actions:
eg. In oder to..., we propose...
eg. We hope that you will consider...
eg. It is our appeal to do...
eg. We would like to suggest...
eg. In oder to improve the situation, we should...
……
Analyze(分析) & Appreciate(欣赏)
—Language that is used
Encouraging appeal:
eg. Let’s start doing...
eg. Let’s join together to...
eg. I believe that if we work together...
eg. I do hope that...
Write your persuasive letter
Finish activity 6. Write down some key points.(5 minutes)
Finish your writing!(20 minutes)
Dear Friends,
We are writing this letter to raise your awareness of the need to protect our planet. You can help simply by participating in the No Bottled Water campaign.
People tend to think bottled water is cleaner and more convenient. However, they may not know that according to scientific research, millions of tons of plastic are used worldwide to make water bottles each year. The plastic can take hundreds of years to break down.
writing purpose
existing problem
If you are worried about the effects of bottled water on the Earth, we would like to suggest you take the following steps.
1. Carry your water in a sustainable, reusable bottle. In this way, you don’t need to buy bottled water.
2. If you have to purchase a plastic bottled beverage, recycle the bottle after use.
3. Ask your family members and friends to take part in this campaign.
proposed actions
Everyone is responsible for making our planet cleaner and better by doing what we can. Let’s start NOW.
With best wishes,
Class 11
make an appeal
你校将于6月8日世界海洋日为主题举办英语征文比赛,请你写一篇短文,投稿内容包括:
1.海洋的重要性;
2.保护海洋的倡议。
注意:词数100左右
Homework
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