2. check the homework, giving some explanation if necessary.
step two reading
1. language input：quite often in our daily life we may see or hear or read something that makes us fell happy, sad or even very angry. and we usually want to tell others about our own feelings. we have several ways of showing how we feel, for example, we can have a talk with our close friends or relatives; we can get a pen friend; we can make a phone call to the local radio or tv station; and we can also write to a newspaper, a magazine and so on. now please read a letter and try to find what is going on.
questions：
① where does the writer live?
② what is the writer worried about?
③ how does the air pollution come about?
④ what suggestions does the writer make?
step three pre-writing
1.fill in the form ask the ss to work in pairs, answering the questions by filling in the form.
step four writing
1. questions and answers ask individual ss to answer the questions according the above form.
2. sentence writing ask ss to write down the answers to the questions in the form of sentences.
3. sentence combining ask ss to combine the sentences one after another, using and, but, or, so, unless, although, because, etc.
4. refining ask ss to read what they have done, making some necessary changes by using some more difficult conjunctions like which, that, when, what, when, where, etc.
5. exchanging ask pairs or groups of students to exchange what they have written and discuss each other’s writing. after the ss have done it, ask several students to read out their letters.
step five proof reading
t show the ss a previously-prepared letter, asking them to correct the mistakes in it.
dear editor,
i live in a small village, it is a very beautiful village. recently some 1. ____
people in the village want to destroy the old temple so that they can 2.____
build a new car factory. the old temple has a history of more than 3. ____
five hundred years. inside the temple there are few stone figures and 4. ____
carved paintings. if the temple was destroyed, all these things will be 5. ____
losing, and i don't think it right for people to do that. i think one way 6. ____
to solve the problem is to build the car factory in other place. second 7. ____
if the factory really need to be built, we'd better try our best to remove 8. ____
the whole temple to somewhere else. we shouldn't let our history or 9. ____
culture are destroyed, and we should do all we can to save the temple. 10. ____
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