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Millie
millie@sunshine.edu
To: Tommy
tommy@
Subject:
My School Day
The email header itself establishes an authentic middle-school voice. Students observe how date, greeting, and sign-off frame the narrative.
Sunshine Middle at Dawn
A wide shot introduces the setting, anchoring place and time. Key nouns like gate, lawn, bus, and flagpole preview vocabulary that recurs in the text.
This visual support helps struggling readers before they encounter denser sentences, grounding the narrative in a concrete location.
Meet Millie in One Line
"I’m thirteen and crazy about volleyball."
This self-description presents character, age, and hobby in a single breath. It invites learners to compare themselves using the same structure, modeling concise autobiographical writing.
Global to Local
02
One-Minute Skim for Gist
The complete email is shown. What is the main topic
A. A family reunion
B. School life
C. A holiday plan
This quick check confirms the text is a portrait of a day, training students to distinguish the main theme from potential details.
Paragraph Purpose Map
1
Greet
2
Describe
3
Share
4
Ask
Students label each paragraph with a verb for its function. This clarifies Millie's rhetorical order and prepares learners to structure their own replies logically.
Time Markers Hunt
Scan the email for exact phrases that place Millie at each hour.
7:00
I catch the bus at 7:05...
8:15
Then our lessons begin at 8:15.
12:30
We have lunch at 12:30...
4:00
After school, I have volleyball practice...
5:00
We leave school at about 5:00 p.m.
Core Information
03
Morning Routine Revealed
"I catch the bus at 7:05 and do morning exercises on the playground."
Subject: I
Verb 1: catch the bus
Verb 2: do exercises
Prepositions: at 7:05, on the playground
This shows how simple present tense conveys habitual action, a resource for their own diary entry.
Chinese Class Close-Up
"We read short works by famous writers."
Li Bai
Poet
Du Fu
Poet
Lu Xun
Realist Author
This mini reading list shows how Millie justifies liking Chinese, modeling the because-clause for stating preferences with evidence.
Biology Lab Window
The phrase "living things and nature" is unpacked into concrete topics:
Leaf cells under a microscope
A frog's life cycle
A campus tree survey
Listing specific content clarifies academic vocabulary and offers comparative data for students.
Volleyball Team Huddle
"I'm in the school volleyball team. We practise on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:45 to 5:15. Our coach is Mr. Li."
Team
Training
3:45-5:15
Coach
Mr. Li
Field Trip Tradition
"Each term we go on a field trip. Last term we visited the nature reserve."
Frequency: Each term
Example: Nature Reserve
Tense: Past Simple for finished experience
Comprehension Check
04
True or False Challenge
Millie is 13 years old.
Her favorite subject is English.
School starts at 8:00 a.m.
She is on the basketball team.
She studies living things in Biology.
They leave school at 4:30 p.m.
Learners return to the text to verify each claim, practising close reading and sharpening detail discrimination.
Evidence for Each Call
Statement: Favourite subject is English.
Evidence: "I like Chinese best!"
Statement: On the basketball team.
Evidence: "I'm in the school volleyball team."
Correct answers are confirmed only when paired with quoted evidence, modeling how to justify a response with textual proof.
Lexical Reinforcement
catch the bus
board
study living things
learn
practise volleyball
train
visit the reserve
go to
Students match each verb from the email to a synonym, checking vocabulary depth for productive use in their own writing.
Language Focus
05
Present Simple for Habits
She catches the bus at 7:05.
Time: every day
She practises volleyball...
Time: on Tuesdays
They leave school...
Time: at 5 p.m.
The pattern subject + verb(-s) is aligned with time expressions to reinforce why present simple is used for routines.
Linking Time Phrases
First, she catches the bus.
Then, she does morning exercises.
After lunch, she has Biology.
Before practice, she finishes homework.
Connectors like first, then, after lunch, and before practice glue events into a smooth sequence, elevating a list into coherent prose.
Giving Reasons with "Because"
I like Chinese best
because
we read short works.
The clause is broken into opinion + reason. This pattern is essential for justifying preferences, a skill students need for their own writing.
Output Tasks
06
Reconstruct Millie's Day
School starts at . At twelve o'clock, . After school, . Once a term, .
Learners complete the gaps with information from the email. This controlled writing task bridges reading comprehension and free production.
Reply as Tommy
Write a return email to Millie. Use this guide:
Greet Millie and thank her for her email.
Describe one day at your own school.
Ask her one question about her school life.
This scaffold ensures a pragmatic balance of giving and requesting information, sustaining the pen-pal exchange.

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