Unit 6 - Writing (An Argumentative Informal Letter about the Importance of Humour).docx

2nd Baccalaureate

Teacher: Abdel-illah Alioui

Level:

Lesson Type:

Topic: An Argumentative Informal

Writing

Letter about the Importance of Humour.

Objectives: 

Unit 6: Humour School Year: 2013/2014 Timing: 55 min (1h)

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

Write an argumentative informal letter about the importance of humour

Instructional Aids :

Blackboard / textbook (Gateway to English 2) Lesson Outline Content

Techniques

Timin g

Stage s

War m-up

Prewriti ng

 T greets Ss.  T brainstorms ideas from Ss about the importance of humour in our life.  T presents and check understanding of the topic that students should write as follow:

Topic: your friend has just sent you a letter saying that there is no use in watching comedy films. Write a reply trying to convince him/her of the importance of watching such films.

Mod e of Wor k

Warmingup T-S Brainstorm ing

15 min

Eliciting

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S-S

Questioni ng Predictio n

 T explains and elicits information from Ss about the outline of an argumentative informal letter. T-S

While writi ng

Address Date Dear (name of your friend),

+ Brainstorm ing

Explainin g

S-S 30 min

pair s

Eliciting

Thank you for your last letter. It was nice to hear from you. I am writing to you this letter to tell you my personal opinion about your last point, and try to convince you of the importance of watching Comedy films. I think that watching comedy films is important because of the following reasons. First of all, …………………………………………........ …………………………………………………….………. The second one is that ………………………………………………………………………. The third argument why watching comedy films is important is that ………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………….. To conclude, I think that ………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………. Postwriti ng

Questioni ng Modeling Guiding

20 min

Waiting to hear from you soon Best Regards, (Your Name)

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Writing

Sol o

 Ss start writing their letter in class and finish it at home so as to bring it the next session.