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Unit 8 - Writing (Formal Letter About Brain Drain - Causes and Effects)
Unit 8 - Writing (Formal Letter About Brain Drain - Causes and Effects)
55 min (1h)
Instructional Aids :
Blackboard / textbook
Lesson Outline
Content
Stage
s
Warm
-up
T greets Ss.
T elicits information from Ss about the layout of the informal letter
which they studied during Unit 6 Humour.
PreWriting
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Dear ,
Warmingup
Eliciting
Timin
g
Mod
e of
Wor
k
T-S
5
min
S-S
Guessing
Questioni
ng
Checking
( Senders Address)
(Date)
(Recipients Address)
(Formal Salutation)
T-S
Matching
Explainin
g
...
..
..
..
. (Body of the Letter)
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...
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.
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Yours Sincerely
Techniques
10
min
S-S
Modeling
Guiding
(Signature)
(Senders Name)
Whilewriting
Reading
T-S
Questioni
ng
B. Topic:
T introduces the topic of the formal letter that Students would write
about as follow:
10
min
S-S
Explainin
g
Modeling
Guiding
C. Ideas:
T elicits information from Ss about the causes, negative effects and
some practical solutions to reduce the negative effects of Brain Drain.
This brainstorming is to help the students get as more ideas as possible
to facilitate the task of writing the formal letter:
Causes
Negative Effects
Low
salaries
and
wages
Lack of support staff
Unsatisfactory
Decrease
of
the
economic growth of
the home country
Declining
in
the
number
of
active
population
Lack
of
certain
branches
and
specializations
People may imitate
the immigrated brains
Economic crisis
Solutions
T-S
15
min
Eliciting
Questioni
ng
Brainstormin
g
T-S
15
min
Postwriting
(Your address)
Modeling
Guiding
............................................. (Date)
Explainin
g
...
Questioni
ng
Dear Editor,
I have recently read a lot about the phenomenon of Brain Drain in
your magazine. Therefore, I am writing to you this letter to talk about
three points:
1) The causes of Brain Drain
2) The negative effects of Brain Drain.
3) Some practical solutions to this problem.
On the one hand, there are several causes of brain drain. First of
all, .....................
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......
Second,
S-S
Guessing
D. An example to follow:
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Drafting
S-S
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The
third
cause
of
this
problem
is
Secondly,
..
Thirdly,
Finally, I think that the following solutions would help reduce the
negative
effects
of
Brain
Drain.
To
begin
with,
.
Another
one
is
..
.
The
last
solution
is
.
.
Yours Sincerely,
(Your Name)
Sol
o
Writing
Practicing