Lecture 6
Teaching task: Personal Letter writing
Teaching target and object:
(1) Enable the students to know the differences between notes and letters
(3) Enable the students to write different kinds of personal letters mainly letters of invitation and reply; letters of thanks; letters of congratulations; letters of apologies and explanations; letters of condolence and sympathy.
(4) Enable students to know the correct format , content and the language used in personal letters
Teaching focus:
The differences between notes and personal letters
How to write a letter of invitation and reply
How to write a letter of thanks
How to write a letter of apologies and explanation
How to write a letter of condolence and sympathy
Teaching method: free writing--–commentary --–discussion---guided writing---commentary –-comparison with the samples---summery
Teaching procedures:
Greeting
Let students know the teaching tasks, target and teaching focus..白头到老歌词
(4) The idioms of the day: look forward; getting to know; make it; at your disposal; drop by; in the neighborhood
窝窝头怎么做Explain the idioms of the day and ask the students to use them in their own sentences.
Look forward: expect : . I am looking forward to your reply.
Getting to know: starting to know: . We are getting to know each other.
Make it: to come : . I am sorry but Joe and I won’t be able to make it to your barbeque this weekend. Thank you for the invitation and I hope we’ll be able to make it for the next gathering.
At your disposal: be available (formal but a good idiom): . If there is anything at all that I can do to help, please don’t hesitate to give me a call. I am at your disposal.
Drop by : visit but not according to an appointment: . Yesterday I dropped by to see a friend .
In the neighborhood: . Sometimes we can meet our acquaintances in our neighborhood.
(4) The quotat刘涛结婚照ion of the day: “ The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”陈浩民穆婷婷. ( Napoleon Bonaparte)
(5) Discuss with the class the personal letters
Do you often write letters
For what purposes do you often write letters
Do you often write letters to promote friendship (say, to invite someone; to thank someone; to congra
tulate someone; to make apologies and explanation; to express condolence and sympathy)
Ask the students to write a personal letter of about 70-80 words to anyone they want to in any way think appropriate. within 10 minutes.
(7) Broadcast two or three students’ personal letters to the class so that we can make detailed comments.
( 8) Show the students a sample letter of thanks:
The Metallurgy Dept.
University of Liverpool
Liverpool LR5 6 KI
England
15 November, 2004
Dear Mr. Rallinen,
I must write and thank you for your kindness to you on my visit to the Tampella factory earlier this month. I am very grateful for the time you spent answering my questions, and the trouble you went to, to make my stay in Tampella as interesting as possible. I can assure you those two days were the highlight of my trip to Finland.
Yours very sincerely,
George R. Finlay
牛杂(9) Discuss the format, the semantic elements, the language used in a personal letters:
The format of a personal letter is a bit similar with notes.
Every well-constructed personal letter is made up of five essential parts:
The heading: your address and the date ( where and when)
The salutation: your complimentary greetings (to whom)
The complimentary close: your complimentary good bye
The signature (who)
So the semantic structure of personal letter should be as follows:
Heading ^salutation ^body (purpose and information)^ complimentary close ^ signature
Heading: The heading is the sender’s address and the date of writing the letter. It always goes in the top right-hand corner. Start writing about in the center so that the longest line reaches your right margin.
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