Appendix C: Teaching notes

Week 1:
Date: Tuesday , may 25,1999 8:25--9:10 Class: 2
Today's objectives: to practice students' writing ability and self-correction ability
Teaching methods: writing
Order of doing things:
Step 1: tell the students how to do this kind of writing. They should follow four steps:
　　1. Look through the requirement carefully (both the Chinese and English given words)
　　2. Think over the related sentence structures
　　3. Write a short passage. Pay attention to word order and punctuation marks.
　　4. Check (including: the spelling of the words; the using of sentence structure, the tenses, the full using of the given words.)
　　Write the above four instructions on the blackboard.
Step 2: Ask them to write by themselves, follow the four steps.
Step 3: Correct by themselves
Step 4: Summarizing the lesson
Homework: Do some additional exercises.

Date: Thursday, May 27,1999 Class: 2
Today's objectives: To correct students' errors in their writing.
Teaching methods: correcting and practicing

Step 1. Ask the students to look at the writing which has already been corrected by the teacher. At the same time, ask them to find the reasons of their errors. Then the teacher points out the common mistakes.

Step 2. Do some error analysis.
　　1. be good at + n.
　　2. see sb.do/doing sth.
　　3. Swim swam
　　4. help sb. do sth
　　　help sb. with sth.
Step 3. Do some remedial exercises.
　　　The teacher use some typical exercises to practice the above collocations

Step 4 Summarizing the lesson by emphasize the above four collocations.

Homework: rewrite the paper by using the correct form.

Week 2
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 1999 8:25-9:10 a.m. Class: 2
Today's objectives: to practice students' writing ability and peer-correction ability
Teaching methods: correcting and practicing

Step 1. Repeat the four steps of writing
Step 2 Ask them to write by themselves, follow the four steps
Step 3 Correct by themselves
Step 4 Correct in small pairs (using pencil)
Step 5. Summarizing the lesson
Homework: do some additional exercises

Date: Thursday , June 3,1999 9:20--10:05 a.m. Class: 2
Today's objectives: to reduce the students' errors in their writing

Step 1. Ask the students to look at the writing which has already been corrected by the teacher. At the same time, ask them to find the reasons of their errors. (they can discuss.)
Step 2. Read the passage loudly in class
Step 3 Do some remedial exercises
Step 4. Summarizing the lesson
Homework: rewrite the whole paper by using the correct form.

Week 3
Date: Tuesday, June 8,1999 8:25--9:10 a.m. Class: 2
Objectives: To practice writing and correct errors in writing
Teaching methods: Practicing writing and correcting.

Step 1. Ask the students to discuss the topic in groups.
Step 2 Ask the students to check their writing in their model test paper. First individually, then in pairs.
Step 3 Ask several volunteers to come to the blackboard and write down their writing work.
Step 4. Ask volunteers to come to the blackboard to correct the writing work(using color chalk)
Step 5. The teacher and the students analyze the problem together. The teacher ask some good students to give more examples of the right form.
Step 6. Summarizing the lesson
Homework: 1) Rewrite the writing work
　　　　 2) Do some additional exercises

Postwriting activities:
Every day we do a piece of writing and analyze it.