Are you happy?

Let’s sing together!

• If you're happy and you know it, • clap your hands; • if you're happy and you know it, • clap your hands; • if you're happy and you know it, • and you really want to show it;• if you're happy and you know it,• clap your hands!

2011年福建省南平市初中毕业、升学考试作文题

• 不同的人对幸福生活有着不同的理解：有人认为身心健康是幸福的生活，有人认为生活条件好是幸福的生活，有人认为关系和谐是幸福的生活……请以“ How To Make Our Life Happier?”为题写一篇 80词左右的英语短文。

• 要求：• 1 ．条理清晰，语言流畅，用词准确 , 字迹工整；• 2 ．文中不得使用你的真实姓名、校名。

Kelly’s Reminder 1Theme 围绕主题

Q:How to make our life happier?A:Keeping healthy will

make our life happier.

Prepare the materials.准备素材

• How to keep healthy? • (What’ve we learnt from the

textbook?)• It is necessary for us to have healthy

eating habits.• We should have the right kind of food to

keep healthy.• We should do more exercise to build us up.• Keep happy to keep healthy.

What have we known from life?

• Staying up late is bad for our body.• We should not smoke.• Early to bed, early to rise.• Smile all the time.• Good living habits are

important.

Write down the key points:写下要点

• 1. Good living habits• 2. Healthy eating habits • 3. Do more exercise • 4. Keep happy

Kelly’s Reminder 2

Q:How to design a composition?

Structure 谋篇布局

A: Three-step structure. (Beginning-body-end)

1. Good living habits are necessary. 2. We should have healthy eating habits. 3. We should do more exercise. 4. Keep happy.

Keeping healthy will make our life happier.

We can make our life happier.

a nice head

a nice tail

a nice body

Three steps• Present your opinion: • Keeping healthy will make our life

happier. • Write down the key points:• 1. Good living habits• 2. Healthy eating habits • 3. Do more exercise • 4. Keep happy • Make a summary:• We can make our life happier.

Kelly’s Reminder 3Words and

Sentences 遣词造句Q: How to beautify

the words and sentences?A: By using connectives,

new sentence patterns and sayings.（连词，句式和

谚语）

• E.g.: Keep happy.• Keep happy every day.• It’s important to keep happy

every day.

如何美化句子 :1 It is + adj + to do sth.2 doing is ……3 so … that 4 从句 ( 宾语 , 状语和定语从句 )

• In my opinion, keeping healthy will make our life happier.

• First ， good living habits are necessary. Second, we should have healthy eating habits. Third, we should do more exercise to build up our bodies. Finally, it’s important to keep happy every day.

• I hope we can make our life happier.

• the theme

• Discuss the structure• (in groups)• words and sentences

Model Display 范文展示

• Different people have different ideas about happy life. In my opinion, keeping healthy will make our life happier.

• First ， good living habits are necessary. We should get enough sleep and try not to stay up late. Second, we should have healthy eating habits. We’d better have right food and stay away from smoking and drinking too much. Third, we should do more exercise to build up our bodies. Finally, it’s important to keep happy every day.

• I hope we can make our life happier.

Theme

Structure:3 steps

Homework

Write: How to make our life happier?

To fill the hour—that is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson,

American thinker让时间过得充实些，那才是幸福。

——爱默生