Project 1

Project: writing an advice letter

Teaching objectives:

To help students improve English through doing a project.

To cooperate by working together on the project.

Important and difficult points:

Writing an advice letter.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1  Lead-in 

What does a good advice columnist do?

get a rough idea about the trouble

analyze the trouble

find out the roots of the trouble

give proper suggestions

keep in regular contact with the sender

feedback information

Step 2  Reading

1  Read the first letter and answer:

A Why does the father write the letter?

B What does the father think about his son?