Knowledge aims:

(1) Students can know how to describe their hometowns and other places.

(2) Students can describe size, location, population, weather, history, places to visit and things to eat.

Ability aims:

(1) Students can collect writing materials and organize them.

(2) Students will improve their writing skills of drafting, outlining and revising.

Emotional aims:

Students’ interest of learning English can be evoked and also can form a good consciousness of loving the hometown.

Teaching Key and Difficult Points:

Teaching key points:

Students can use the useful expressions to describe a place.

Teaching difficult points:

How to make students use the writing skills in their future writing?

Teaching Methods:

Communicative Approach; Task-based Teaching Method

Teaching procedure

Step 1 Warming up and lead-in

Present some places of interest in China on the screen. Then ask them if they have been to these places.

Step 2: Pre-writing

1. Free talk something about hometown or a place.

2. Group work.

Four students in a group. Then time for discussion. Make a list of facts about their hometown or a place they have been to, according to the following aspects: size and location, population, weather, history, places to visit, things to eat. Then ask the representatives to display their notes.

T: Which place do you want to introduce to us?

S: I want to introduce my hometown, Huainan.