Teacher: Abdel-illah Alioui Level: Unit 

8: Brain Drain
nd
2 Year Baccalaureate

Textbook: Gateway to English 2

Lesson Type: Writing Topic: Formal Letter about Brain Drain Timing: 55 min (1h)

(Causes and Effects)

Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Identify the different parts (layout) of a formal letter.

 Use cause effect in their writing

 Write a formal letter about brain drain.

Instructional Aids : Blackboard / textbook

Lesson Outline

Mode

Techniques Timing of
Stages Content
Work

Warm  T greets Ss.

Warming- T-S
-up  T elicits information from Ss about the layout of the informal letter which they studied up
5 +
during Unit 6 “Humour”. min
Eliciting
S-S
 Ss check their knowledge of the format of formal letter by matching the different parts of
Guessing
Pre- the letter suggested on p, 112 with their appropriate parts:
Writing Questioning
A. The Layout/Format of Formal Letter:
Checking

………………………………………..
………………………………………. ( Sender’s Address)
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…………………………………….... (Date)

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………………………………………. (Recipient’s Address) Matching
T-S
……………………………………….
Explaining +
10
Dear ……………………, (Formal Salutation) min
Modeling S-S
…………………………………………………...
Guiding
……………………………………………………………..
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……………………………………………………………. (Body of the Letter)
…………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………...
……………………………………………………………..
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…………………………………………………………….
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Yours Sincerely (Signature)

(Sender’s Name)
 B. Topic:
Reading

 T introduces the topic of the formal letter that Students would write about as follow: Questioning

You have recently read a lot about the phenomenon of Brain Drain in a Explaining T-S

magazine. Write a letter to the editor suggesting some measures that may solve the 10 +
Modeling min
problem or at least reduce its negative effects.
Guiding S-S

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
While-
students get as more ideas as possible to facilitate the task of writing the formal letter:
writing

Causes Negative Effects Solutions

Eliciting
 Low salaries and wages  Decrease of the economic  Higher salaries and wages
 Lack of support staff growth of the home country  Better working and living T-S
Guessing
 Unsatisfactory working and  Declining in the number of conditions
15 +
living conditions active population  Support and help staff Questioning min
 Social unrest, political  Lack of certain branches  Substantial funds for
S-S
conflicts, and wars. and specializations research and advanced Brainstorming
 People may imitate the technology.
immigrated brains  Intellectual freedom
 Economic crisis

D. An example to follow:

………………………………..
……………………………….. (Your address)
……………………………….

............................................. (Date)
Modeling
………………………………
……………………………... (the editor’s address) Guiding
……………………………… T-S
Explaining
Dear Editor, 15
+
Questioning min

I have recently read a lot about the phenomenon of Brain Drain in your magazine. S-S
Drafting
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, .....................
………………………………………………………………….............................................
Second, …………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………….. The third cause of this problem is ………………………………
……………………………………………………………………….

On the other hand, there are a number of different negative effects of the present
phenomenon. Firstly, ………………………………………………………………………...
……………………………………………… 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)

 As homework, Ss use the above example to write a formal letter about the problem of
Brain Drain, stating some causes, negative effects, and suggesting some practical
Writing
solutions which help reduce its negative effects.
Post-
Practicing
writing

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