Appendix IV
LESSON 2: WRITING AN INFORMAL LETTER
LESSON PLAN
Class
Primary 6
Initial information
Time
45 min
Date
15/09/2003
Title/Topic
Writing an informal letter
AIMS
To help students realize the use of written language as a communicative activity
used for transactional purposes.
To make them become aware of the conventions of informal letter-writing.
To initiate them to the process approach in writing.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students are expected to:
be able to communicate a message in written language
be able to write an informal letter following the conventions of organization
and layout
integrate reading with writing and be able to elicit useful information from a
written text in order to transfer this information to some other kind of
writing.
Students’ background:
Anticipated problems: Students have not yet mastered writing techniques even in
their mother tongue and this deprives them of transferring relevant knowledge to the
foreign language. Their limited exposure to the layout of letters in the foreign
language which is different to the layout of letters in their mother tongue makes them
unable to express themselves appropriately. In addition, their vocabulary is also
limited.
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