Lesson Plan
Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
1. work in groups and organize their ideas about the person they recommend by
using a mind-map.
2. write paragraphs about their ideas and finish a recommendation letter.
3. check their writing by using the standards given.
4. develop their creative thinking quality by discussing their ideas in groups. Learning focus:
1. organizing ideas about the person they recommend and writing paragraphs
2. checking their writing
3. developing their creative thinking quality
Learning difficulty:
1. working in groups and organizing their ideas by using a mind-map
2. checking their writing
Procedure:
stages Learning activities Purposes
Free talk Talk about what they think of their
monitor and why they think so.To lead in the topic, encourage students to talk and activate their former knowledge.
1. Read a recommendation letter from Simon and Millie quickly and divide it into three parts.To help students get to know the structure of a recommendation letter.
Pre-writing 2. Read the recommendation letter and
find out the answers of the following
questions:
(1) Who do they recommend?
(2) What do they think of David?
1. To help students
understand Simon and
Millie’s ideas by using
a mind-map on the
blackboard.
(3) Why do they think so?  2. To help students get
to know the details they
write should support
the topic sentences
3. Think about whether we can change the
order of the two underline sentences of the following paragraph from the letter.
David is very hard-working. He always does extra work after class. He spends a lot of time helping with our class projects.To help students get to know they can also write examples to support their ideas when they write.
4. Four students a group, recommend one of their classmates to be the new chairperson for the school student Union. Then organize ideas about him or her by using the following mind-map.1. To help students organize their ideas for their writing.
2. To help students develop their creative thinking quality by discussing their ideas in groups.
5. Each group choose a member to share their ideas. While someone is sharing, the other students listen carefully and answer some questions after listening.1. To help students express their ideas and share them with the other students.
2. To arouse students’ interest.
While-writing Write a draft: Four students a group, each group member choose an idea from their mind-map and try to write a paragraph about it. To encourage students
to write down their
ideas about the person
they recommend by
workusing the mind-map.
Post-writing    1.The teacher use one of the students’
writing to show the other students
how to check by using the following
standards :
To help students learn
how to check their
writing by themselves.
2. Check their own writing. If there are any mistakes, correct them with a red pen.To get students learn to
do self-check.
3. Exchange their writing with their partner and check partner’s writing. If there are any mistakes, help him or her correct them. To get students check
other students’ writing
and
improve their writing
skills and critical thinking.
4. Students write their revised paragraphs as clearly as they can on a small piece of paper. After that, f
our students in a group add the body part of a recommendation
letter by sticking their paragraphs on the
letter and finish it.
To get students work in
groups and finish their
recommendation letter.
5. Share: one group of students share their
recommendation in class. After that, all the groups put their letter on the blackboard.
To encourage students to show their letters and share their ideas.Assignment Read the letters on the blackboard and
have a class vote.
Blackboard
design Make a Recommendation

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