الأسبوع 5 · المحور 1، الباب 2 «الحفاظ على صحة الجسم» (ج): القلب والنبض وكتابة تقرير · 3 دروس
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Writing about my body
Discover P3 Term 1: Axis 1, Chapter 2
GoalCollect facts about the skin, bones and muscles, stomach and heart, and write a short report in four steps.
New words
plan · to think and list ideas before writingdraft · a first version of your writingrevise · to read again and make your writing betterpublish · to write the final neat copy to share
Explanation
We can put what we learned about our body on a tree of health. Each leaf holds one fact. The skin protects us from germs and the Sun’s rays. Bones and muscles work together to move us and protect soft organs. The stomach squeezes and mixes food. The heart pumps blood round the body. To write a short report, follow four steps. First, plan: think of the most important facts and list them. Second, draft: write your ideas in full sentences, with an opening sentence, the facts, and a closing sentence. Third, revise: read your work with a friend and use a checklist. Are the sentences complete? Do they come in a sensible order? Is the spelling correct? Fourth, publish: write the final copy neatly and add a picture.
plan→draft→revise→publish
Worked examples
Leaf
Fact
Skin
keeps germs out
Bones and muscles
move the body
Stomach
squeezes and mixes food
Heart
pumps blood
Nour’s tree of health has four leaves: skin (protects from germs), bones and muscles (move us), stomach (mixes food), heart (pumps blood).
Nour’s draft. Opening: “My heart is an amazing muscle.” Fact: “It pumps blood to every part of my body.” Closing: “I will keep my heart strong by playing outside.”
Checklist
Done?
Complete sentences
✓
Sensible order
✓
Correct spelling
✓
Revising with a friend. Nour’s friend reads the draft and ticks the checklist: complete sentences, sensible order, correct spelling. She finds one spelling mistake and Nour fixes it before she writes the final copy.
Class activity
Write a short report about one body part you learned about. Plan: list three facts. Draft: write an opening sentence, three fact sentences and a closing sentence. Revise: swap with a friend and use the checklist. Publish: copy it neatly and add a drawing. Add a leaf to your class tree of health.
Practice
1
Put the four writing steps in order: revise, plan, publish, draft.
Plan, draft, revise, publish.
2
Which is a complete sentence? A. “The heart pumps blood.” B. “Pumps blood to the”. Say the letter.
A.
3
Write one fact about the stomach for a leaf on the tree of health.
For example: the stomach squeezes and mixes food.
4
Why do we revise with a friend?
A friend can see mistakes we missed and help make the writing better.