要了解英语写作的不同体裁与格式。可以先看一本介绍英语写作入门的书，对英语写作有一个初步的概念，如怎么写议论文，如何提出论据，如何展开，如何确定中心句;又如，英语信的格式，如何根据不同身份写不同结束语等，然后根据不同的体裁进行写作练习。
五年级英语优秀作文范文一：
暑假计划
This summer holiday I plan to go to the beach.I will go there with my parents and cousins.We'll stay there for three days at the local hotel.The trip will be the most wonderful one that I have ever had.Because we will do a lot of things there,such as playing volleyball ,windsurfing ,having barbecue at night.I'm really looking foward to it.
五年级英语优秀作文范文二：
Crow drink water
There is some water in a bottle near a big rock.A bird is very thirsty. He comes to the bottle and stands next to the bottle.But he can't drink the water,beacause the bottle's neck is very long. So he thinks and thinks,and then flies away. After some time,he comes back with a small stone in his mouth.He goes up to the bottle and puts the stone into the bottle. He flies away and flies back again and again.He puts many stones into the bottle. The water in the bottle comes up to its neck and the bird can.
五年级英语优秀作文范文三：
I Miss My Father
I am a girl of ten, and I live in a small mountain village far from Taiyuan. The only person that lives with me is my mother, because my father is away for eight years, working in a city.
During the Spring Festival, my father came back home. He looked thin and tired. He gave my mother two thousand yuan, and told her that he would work even harder, earn more money, and then he could take us to the city He stayed at home for only ten days.We are living a poor life now. But what I want most is not money, but my father. I miss him very much!
五年级英语优秀作文范文四：
Development and the Environment
It is undeniable that the worsening environment has become the biggest concern of the present-day world. Land resources are dwindling because of water loss and soil erosion. Waste gases poison the air we breathe. The rivers and lakes are polluted by waste dumped in them from factories. It is probably no exaggeration to say that deterioration of the quality of the environment threatens the existence of mankind itself.
Some people are of the opinion that the environmental problem is the price we have to pay for economic development. But I do not think that this argument is valid. After all, what is the point of economic growth if people's lives are adversely alfected by worsening environmental pollution?
五年级英语优秀作文范文五：
Planting Trees
Yesterday was Tree Planting Day. The teachers asked us to plant trees at the corner of our playground. At 3:00 in the afternoon, we got there. Our teacher showed us how to plant trees,then we started to do it. Some dug the pits, some put trees in them and others watered them. We planted a lot of trees. When we finished our work, it was nearly dark.
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昨天是植树节。老师要求我们在操场拐角处种树。下午3点我们到了那里。老师给我们示范怎样种树，然后我们就开始干起来。一些同学挖树坑，一些同学往树坑里放树，另一些人给树浇水。我们种了很多树。当我们结束工作时，天几乎黑了。