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Period Four Writing—Persuasive writing:letter of advice
本单元的写作任务是建议信,属于应用文。建议信的目的是向有关组织或个人提出建议,所提建议旨在针对某种事物或现象,提出一些改进的措施,这种建议带有劝说性。建议信写成书信或电子邮件的格式,一般由称呼、正文、结尾和署名四个部分组成。
基本框架:
1.开头——提出写建议信的缘由。
2.主体——写出建议的具体内容,并指出你所提出的建议可能会带来的好处。
3.结尾——表明希望自己的建议被采纳的想法。
1.反映现象的常用开头句式:
(1)I’m writing to tell you that...
(2)Recently we have made a survey that...
(3)Many people are worried about...
(4)It worries more and more people that...
2.提出措施的常用句式:
(1)We intend to...to help/save/protect...
(2)We are ready to call on people to...
(3)We feel like doing...to teach the illegal hunters a lesson...
(4)We’d rather not...but do...
(5)We’d like to...to punish those who do harm to wildlife.
3.征求对方支持的常用表达:
(1)We need your support to make more and more people...
(2)Would you please help us to...by...?
(3)We’ll appreciate it if you can...
(4)In order to...we need...
(5)I hope that I can get help from...
(6)I expect that you can...
假如你是李华,上周末去某个岛上游玩,看见很多可爱的动物,听岛上的一位老人说,现在动物的数量日渐减少,如果不采取措施,有些动物可能会灭绝。回来后你给野生动物保护协会写一封信,就保护野生动物提出一些建议。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
参考词汇:提高意识 raise one’s awareness
写作要求是关于保护野生动物的建议信。这类文章多分为三部分:第一部分点出濒危动植物的现状;第二部分说明物种灭绝对整个生态系统、人类的影响,或是分析利弊;最后一部分提出保护的建议或进行呼吁。分析利弊时可采用从句或连词等以使句子显得结构紧凑。写作时应注意下面几点:
1.确定文体:这是一篇建议信。写作时注意建议信的写作特点。
2.主体时态:描述濒危的动植物及实施的政策时多用现在时,若是呼吁大家进行保护也可使用将来时。
联想词汇
1.逐年地year by year
2.采取措施take measures/steps/action
3.在我看来as far as I’m concerned
4.制定法律make laws
5.建立set up
6.而且what’s more/besides/in addition
句式升级
1.那里的动物很可爱,但是人们说它们的数量在逐年减少。
The animals there are lovely,but people say that the number of them is decreasing year by year.(宾语从句)
The animals there are lovely,but it’s said that the number of them is decreasing year by year.(主语从句)
2.如果不采取措施,它们会处于灭绝的危险中。
If we don’t take some measures,they will be in danger of dying out.(主动语态)
If some measures aren’t taken,they will be in danger of dying out.(被动语态)
3.毫无疑问,生活在安全环境中的动物更可能存活下来。
There is no doubt that animals living in safe environments are more likely to survive.(现在分词作后置定语)
There is no doubt that an