Learning about Language教学实录

Book2 Unit１Cultural Relics Period4

Using language

I. Analysis of the teaching material:

This teaching material is the fourth part of Book2 Unit1, Cultural Relics, whose topic is cultural relics protection. It is made up of two short reading passages and a listening task. This period is aimed at improving students’ judgment on people’s statements; deciding what to believe or not and listening for specific words.

II. Teaching aims: Knowledge aims: 1.

Get the students to tell the difference between a fact and an opinion. 2.

Enable the students to understand the listening material and make notes quickly. 3.

Listen and speak about cultural relics. 4.

Learn to write a reply letter. Ability aims: After the class, the students will be able to 1. Understand the difference between a fact and an opinion. 2. Find out clues to identify a fact or an opinion. 3. Listen for key words and specific information. Emotional aims: 1. Arouse the students’ interest in making judgment on a story.

2. Cultivate the students’ good habits of predicting before listening according to what they know in the incomplete sentences.

III. Teaching important points: 1.

Help the students to find out how to make judgment on whether a story is a fact or an opinion.

2.

Get the students to focus on some specific information while listening (who, where, what). 3.

Lead the students to make notes quickly while listening, using abbreviation. IV. Teaching difficult points: 1. Help students learn how to tell a fact from an opinion.

2. How to predict the whole story with incomplete sentences, thus lessening their anxiety.

V. Teaching aids:

Multi-media, a projector and a blackboard.

VI. Teaching methods:

Task-based learning; Pair & group work; Practicing through activities

VII. Teaching procedures: Step 1

Lead-in (2 minutes) Talk freely about the disappearance of the Amber Room.

Many people are curious about the Amber Room. Till today, many people are hunting for the lost one, which is now still a mystery. Where is it now? How did it disappear? Today we will read or listen to 3 stories about what happened to the Amber Room, and find if a story is a fact or just an opinion. Before doing this, we should know what a fact is and what an opinion is. 【Purpose: to review what the students have known about the Amber Room and to lead in new topic.】

Step 2

Skimming (3 minutes)

Read this passage A FACT OR AN OPINION? and answer the following questions:

1. What is a fact? A fact is anything that can be proved

2. What is an opinion? An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved.

3. What is evidence?

An evidence is true information which must be facts rather than opinions.

(Individual work) 【Purpose: to grasp the definitions of a fact and an opinion.】

Step 3

Comprehending (10 minutes) Show some sentences to check whether the students understand the difference between a fact and an opinion.

1)

I like football very much. 2)

Five plus five equals ten. 3)

The earth is circling around the sun. 4)

Tom is a good student who is very hard-working. Ask the students to compare their ideas and discuss the sentences when they disagree. Then help them to conclude. (group work) 【Purpose: to help the students grasp the general guide for deciding if a statement is this: To see is to believe. A fact can be checked; an opinion cannot.】

Step 4

Consolidation (5 minutes)

Fill in the table about Jan Hasek’s story after reading. (individual work)

Decide whether the story Jan Hasek tells is a fact or an opinion and give the reasons, using the following structure:

I think it is

because

【Purpose: to put into practice what they have known about the difference between a fact and an opinion. Help them to express logically.】

Step 5

Pre-Listening (4 minutes)

Let the students go through the directions and exercises, guessing what the listening text is about. Explain new words: treasure, attack, melt, sink.

(class work)

Lead the students to use abbreviations for help in listening, such as A R for the

Amber Room. Encourage them to form their own style. 【Purpose: to teach the students to form good habits of predicting and using abbreviations, thus enhancing their confidence in listening.】

Step 6 Listening (12 minutes) Listen for specific information. After they check the answers in groups, report them to the class. Pause and repeat the key sentences if necessary. (group work) 【Purpose: to

improve their listening ability for specific information about what, who, where】

Step 7 Assessment (4 minutes) 1. Tell each other a piece of news in our school and judge whether it is a fact or an opinion. (pair work) 2. Ask several students to report their sentences in class. Others give comments. (class work)

【Purpose: to check the students’ understanding of the reading passage; to encourage the students to evaluate their own performances and learn from their peers.】