Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language 

(A letter from Zhang Sha)
Aims:

To read and speak about traveling
To write a letter describing feeling about traveling
Procedures:
I. Warming up
Warming up by discussing
Have you ever written a speech? What is a speech? Speech means an act of speaking formally to a group of listeners. What do you have to consider when you are writing a speech? Please discuss it in pairs. (1. Who is the audience? 2. How can we express ourselves clearly?)
Warming up by reading
What should you include in your speech when you try to write one? Read the letter on page 29 and imagine you are the student who was invited to give a speech. Now write a short speech, in which you should follow the points in exercise 3 on page 29.
II. Reading and underlining
Read the letter and exercises again and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the letter. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.
Collocations from the letter
congratulations, be pleased to do sth., win the high school speaking petition, a
group of five judges, all of whom, agree, be proud of, open a new park, honour those who died in the terrible disaster, would like to do, have you do sth., as you know, invite sb.
to do sth., on that special day, at the beginning of, thank sb, for doing sth.,
honour sb. for sth., be known as, encourage sb. to do sth., be happy to do sth.,
collect stamps, lose one’s life