Task based writing—How to describe a person I. Teaching objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Learn how to write a short passage of a great man. 2. Get some useful adjectives for describing a person 3. Develop students’ awareness of waring 4. Get some information about how to write a basic writing. 5. Develop students’ writing ability. II. Writing strategies: 1. Learning Book1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela- a modern hero to get some useful adjectives to describe a person 2. Knowing how to write a basic writing 3. Brainstorm about the topic 4. Finish the writing in group III. Teaching aids: multi-media equipments (computer, slides, PPT，etc.) IV. Homework: writing another passage V. Teaching procedures Lead in Step 1: T. let students think about how to describe a person. Such as "Mary is a nice girl." "Jim is an outgoing boy." Brainstorming how to describe a person and get vocabulary input. Writing strategy: Get some useful adjective to describe a person and get vocabulary input. Pre-writing Step 2 T presents a short passage about a famous singer to students and asks them to guess that who he is. Showing students a sample about how to describe a person Find out: 1.Who is he? 2.Find out some useful words, expression and sentence patterns in the passage 3.If you want to write a composition about a person, how will you write it? While-writing Step 3 1. Give students a writing topic in the form of a chat and this writing topic is about Nelson Mandela. 2. Tell students that the passage must be written with five sentences. 3. Give students time to get key information Step 4: Ss try to translate the information they get into five English sentences Sentence Main information 1 When was Mandela born and his hobbies. 2 Mandela's experience when he was a lawyer 3-4 What did he do for poor black man in South Africa 5 His famous saying and dream. Post-writing Step 5 Group work: Discussion 1. Ss check the translation for their partners and discuss how to correct their mistakes 2. Thinking: Great people are also famous people, but famous people may not be great people. So what should a great people be? 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/96f1f70bde80d4d8d15a4faf.html