Learning about Language优质课教案内容

Learning about language 教学设计

Teaching goals 教学目标

1.Target language语言目标

a. Key words and phrases 重点词汇和短语

trial, eyewitness, consider, prove, tell the truth, pretend, think highly of, besides

b. Key sentences 重点句型

Asking for opinions Do/don’t you think that….?

Would you consider….?

Why/Why not….? Do you have any idea about….? How do you know that?

Are you sure that he /she was telling the truth? What do you think?

What do you think of….? What’s your idea/opinion of….? What would you say….?

How do you feel about….? Who do you think was….?

What are your reasons for saying that? Giving opinions

I think/don’t think that….

Sorry, I don’t agree with you. In my opinion，…

It can be proved.

That can’t be true. I don’t believe…, because….

I think… is telling the truth because…. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable students to ask for opinions and give opinions. Enable students to write a report on a debate.

3. Learning ability goals学能目标

Help students learn how to tell a fact from an opinion.

Teaching methods教学方法

Learning and practicing Teaching aids教具准备

Some slides and a projector Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step1 New words and structures

1) The German title for king was Kaiser, but king is used to introduce a target word.

Likewise, the Russian title for queen is Czarina. In the Europe an royal tradition, the ruler to use a certain given name like William was called William I，which is said as “William the First”. Thus FrederickⅡis better known in history as Frederick the great. So Peter I is also Peter the Great and CatherineⅡ was Catherine the Great. To avoid translation problems from English to Chinese, Roman numbers have been used in this passage.

2)

The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.

This is a reference to the Baroque style (巴洛克艺术风格) of the 17th and 18th century in much of Europe. 3) The Amber Room is “a

wonder of the world”

but not one of the Seven Great Wonders of the World, such as Egypt’s pyramids of China’s Great Wall. Have students compare the meaning of wonder as a noun (as it is used here) and as a verb. 4) There is no doubt is a phrase that means “it is clear” or “beyond argument” that something happened. If something is “beyond doubt” in a court of law, it means that enough evidence exists to say that it is true. 5) In 2003, it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrate the 300th

birthday of their city. The 300th anniversary of an event is also called its tri-centennial. Interestingly, the small art objects and furniture rescued by Russian soldiers before the Nazis arrived are now once again on display in the reproduced Amber Room. St Petersburg is both the current and original name of one of Russia’s oldest, largest and most beautiful cities. During the period of the Soviet Union, the city was named Leningrad. It is sometimes nicknamed the “Venice of the East” because of its many canals. Step2 Discovering useful words and expressions

Ask students to read the instructions of each part of the Discovering useful words and expressions, and then finish these three exercises quickly. A few minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Later, the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector. Discovering useful structures

T: From Reading, pick out the sentences that use the attributive clause with

that/which/who/where/when.

1 The gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. 2 The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. 3 It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artist about ten years to make. 4 However, the next King of Prussia, Fredrick William I, to whom the Amber Room belonged, decided not to keep it. 5 Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers.

6 In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. 7 This was a time when the two countries were at war. 8 there is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea.

9 In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th

birthday of their city.

First let students read the sentences they underlined. Then show the correct sentences using a slide projector and let students analyze them.

T: Observe these sentences carefully. Some contain commas before the relative pronouns, for example 3, 4 and 8. These sentences are different from the others. How are they different? Can you tell me?

Students try to tell the differences in their own words. T: We call these three sentences non-restrictive clauses. The relative clause carries extra information that is not necessary to identify the person or thing being discussed. Now finish Exercise 3. Judge whether restrictive or non-restrictive clauses are required.

Later, the teacher gives the answers, using a slide projector. Exercise 4 also provides semi-open practice with the grammar. After they complete the sentences, first let them check with each other. Then let some read their sentences and check them with the whole class.

Step 3 Homework Review the key sentences in this part.