Using LanguageⅠ教学设计实例

Unit 4

Cultural Relics （Using Language）

Yang Yi, Zaoyang NO.7 middle school

Student level: Senior 1

Teaching content:

Reading, listening and speaking, Unit 1, Book 2

Teaching time:

40 minutes

Teaching Aims:

1.

Knowledge aims

(1)

The students will know the meanings of new words: prove, honey, wooden, judge, treasure, castle, sink(sank, sunk), explode, entrance, melt and evidence

(2)

The students will be able to tell facts from opinions.

2.

Technique aims

(1)

The students will work with group members and solve the problems cooperatively.

(2)

Express their own opinion based on facts. 3.

Emotion and attitude

The students will be able to tell opinions from facts and judge whether the information is reliable or not.

Important points:

1. Understand the differences between facts and opinions.

2. Use knowledge to solve problem.

Difficult points:

1. Understand the differences between facts and opinions, and judge whether the information is reliable or not.

2. Express their own opinion based on facts. Teaching methods: Individual and group work, Task-based Teaching. Teaching aids: Multi-media facilities Teaching procedures:

StepⅠ

Lead-in Introduce the key word: fact, opinion Let students watch a video about rain. Ask students to express their opinions about the weather. And show them some rain pictures in different situations, then ask their opinions. According to it,

we know it is raining is a fact, but it is difficult to judge raining is good or bad. Introduce the key word: fact, opinion. Step Ⅱ

Reading 1.

Fast reading Read and answer. What is a fact? What is an opinion? How to tell a fact from an opinion? 2.

Practice

Judge whether the following sentences are facts or opinions 1)

Our school is located in Hubei province.

2)

There are many trees and flowers in our school. 3)

Everyone loves our school. 4)

Our school has three teaching buildings and a playground. 5)

I think our school is the best vocational school in our city because most of the students in our school have entered the ideal university. Step Ⅲ

Problem solving 1.

Story review Review the story of the Amber Room. What happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. There are three eyewitnesses about the Amber Room. Imagine we are all the best judge and we should decide which person give the best evidence. 2.

Word guessing

honey, explode, entrance, wooden, bury, treasure, sink(sank, sunk),

melt, castle 3.

Reading

Eyewitness 1 1)

Read an old miner’s story in part 2 on page 5. Find out what happened to the Amber Room in his story. 2)

As a young judge, it is very useful to take down the important information. Find out the facts and the opinions in the story.

4.

Listening

Eyewitness 2 Listen to Hans Braun’s story and find out what happened to the Amber Room. Listen again and fill in the blanks.

Eyewitness 3 Listen to the tape twice and put the right sentences into the passage.

Discuss: Which is a fact and which is an opinion? Step Ⅳ

Debating Who Are the Best Detectives Using the following expressions We are group 1 or 2. We think/don’t think

gave the best evidence.

Firstly, he/she

This is can/can’t be proved, so this is a fact/an opinion…

Secondly,

At last,

As a result, we think …

Step Ⅴ

Summary.

Learn to tell opinions to facts and how to solve the problem in daily life. How to express one’s opinions based on facts. Step Ⅵ

Homework

Write an article on Which Eyewitness Gave/Didn't Give the Best Evidence. Use some expressions that we have learned in this lesson to express the facts and opinions.