Sure. Hello, everyone. Welcome to my class. Today we will learn the Writing Workshop section of Unit 1. In this class, you will read a personal email written by a student, gather its specific information, identify the structure and style of a personal email, and learn how to use simple sentence structures properly.
This class is divided into three parts: read for writing, focus on structure and style, and sentence building. Are you ready? Let's get started.
Okay, what's in this picture? Yes, it's a brand - new school campus this semester. As senior one students, you have a new campus, new classmates, new everything, right? Listen, if you are asked to write an email about your new school life here to an old friend, what do you plan to say? Let's brainstorm. Yes, you may mention your new classmates, your favorite teacher, your new campus, and your feelings. You may also want to say something about the differences between the new school and your previous one, right? Good. What are you going to write in your email? Can you give a report about your thoughts to the class? Here is an example. You may go like this.
生：I am going to write to my pen pal in the UK. I want to tell him my feelings about the new school and the differences between the previous school and the new one. I want to know whether she has made some new friends.
师：Yes. You've got a lot to write in your email. Good job. But how to turn your thoughts into an email? This class will get you prepared for your email writing. In our textbook, there's an email written by Wang Ying. Who is Wang Ying? She is a new senior secondary school student like you. She wrote an email to share her new school life with Fanglang. Okay, please open your textbook to page 18. Read the email carefully and gather information about it. I'll ask you some questions after reading.
Who is Fanglang? Why is Wang Ying writing to her?
How does Wang Ying feel about her new school?
How does her new school life differ from junior secondary school?
Why does Wang Ying have to finish the email now? Find the answers, please. Finished. Okay. Who is Fanglang? Fanglang is an old friend of Wang Ying from junior secondary school. Why is Wang Ying writing to her? She's writing to say hello, share her new school life with Fanglang, and ask about Fanglang's new school life. How does Wang Ying feel about her new school? She really loves her new senior secondary school. She even wrote in her email, “I like the new me.” How does her new school life differ from junior secondary school? They don't have a fixed classroom. What's more, they have many different clubs, which didn't exist in her junior secondary school.
Why does Wang Ying have to finish the email in a hurry? Because she's got a presentation tomorrow and she needs to finish her slides. Yes. Well done. You've got all the answers correctly. Now that we've read the email thoroughly and gathered the specific information we need, let's move on to the structure. Generally, a personal email may include these elements. Let's study the structure of the personal email by labeling each section with the correct element. See, we have 7 elements here. Let's figure out what they are. Please read them together. Good. I need your attention here.
What is the subject line? It's the place where you write down your topic or title. What's the meaning of signature? It means you need to sign your name. Any problem? Okay, you have 2 minutes to match all the labels with different parts of the email. Go. Already finished. Okay, answer check. A - ending and wishes. Yes, “all the best” is her wish. Good. B - greeting. Yes, “hi” is the word we use for greeting. Usually C - subject line, “hello from an old friend” is the subject of this email. D - reasons to finish writing? Yes, well done. Her presentation tomorrow is the reason. E - questions about the other person. “How's your life in Canada?” is a question she asked at the beginning of her email. F - information about one's own life. Yes, correct. It is the biggest part of this email. And G - signature. Wang Ying. Excellent. You are good at labeling. Now we can clearly see the elements of this personal email from the chart here. Can we summarize it into a structure diagram? Let's do this. As shown in the diagram, a personal email mainly contains three parts: beginning, body, and ending. In the beginning part, the writer gives greetings, right? And in the body part, the writer mainly talks about questions about the other person and information about her own life. The last part, ending. This part includes the reason to finish writing, wishes, and signature.