How to improve your article? I. Analyzing the students The students in high school have known some basic knowledge about English writing ， but they still need writing skills to improve their abilities of writing.. II.Teaching aims Knowledge aim : Enable students to express their ideas according to a clue or some details; Ability aim: Train the students’ writing skills;Emotional aim: Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others. III.Teaching important pointHow to improve the students’ writing skills Teaching difficult point How to have a good knowledge of writing skills and write a good English article. IV.Teaching methods 1. Group work 2. Task-based learning.3. Pair workV.Teaching procedures: Step1. PresentationShow two articles written by students in one exam. One is well written, marked 23 while the other is just so-so, only 12.I will ask the students to compare them and discuss why the first article is better than the other. Summarize the characteristics of a good composition: advanced vocabulary, correct sentence structures, proper connectives ……Aim: By comparing the two articles, the students will know the characteristic of a good article.Step2: Use advanced words and complex structures.Ask the class to work in groups to find some good words and structures in the first composition and decide “which words can be improved?” and “How?” in the other article.Then share with the class.Aim: In this step students will show their different ideas on how to make the writing better. By doing this, students will learn a lot from each other. Step 3: Use connectives.Task1. Discuss in groups and list different types of connectives表示转折关系的词：but, while, however, yet, rather than, not … bu...
