Using LanguageⅠ第一课时教学设计

Unit 1

Cultural relics

Using language教学设计

I. Teaching aims: 1. Enable students to learn the differences between the fact and the opinion. 2. Train the students’ reading ability: scanning.

3. To master the following expressions:

Take apart; prove; trial; agree with; rather than; to one’s surprise/ amazement / joy/ delight /sorrow/ excitement / disappointment; the entrance to… ; by oneself; think highly of;

debate;

take

turns to do sth; 4.

Develope students’ sense of group cooperation and

teamwork

II. Teaching methods: Reading，speaking and writing III. Teaching important and difficult points: Important points : Learn the expressions in this part:

take apart; prove; trial; agree with; rather than; to one’s surprise/ amazement / joy/ delight /sorrow/ excitement / disappointment; the entrance to… ; by oneself; think highly of;

debate;

take turns to do sth;

Difficult points: How to understand the passage and express their opinions IV. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision

Check the answers to the homework Step 2 Lead-in We always say :We must respect facts and can’t wholly depend on one’s opinion. 1.

What does it mean when you say “It is a fact.”

2.

What does it mean when you say “It is an opinion.”

Then, stimulate the students to read the first passage carefully to get the definition of the fact, the opinion, and the evidence.

Step3.Reading

Task 1 Read the passage and think about the differences between a fact and an opinion.

What is a fact?

What is an opinion?

What is evidence?

Task 2

Read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber Room quickly. Do you think it is a fact or an opinion? Give your reasons. (Students may say like this :I think it is an opinion that what is in boxes is gold or the Amber Room. Because Jan Hasek did not see what was in the boxes. He listened to other people’s ideas of what might have been inside. So his evidence is an opinion.) Task 3 Read the story again and fill in the table. (On Page 5) Step 4

Deal with the language points in this part.

1. take apart: 拆开

take sth apart

tell sth apart:

区分, 分别…

apart from =except / besides

除了…之外(还) 2. prove: vt 证明, 证实

(1) prove +n. / pron

(2) prove+n.+(to be) + n. /adj. 证明......是....

(3) prove +宾语从句

3. trial

n.

审判/审讯/试验

trial and error

反复试验, 不断摸索

make a trial

试一下, 进行试验

4. agree with

5. rather than 而不是, 连接两个并列成分

6. to one’s surprise/ amazement / joy/ delight /sorrow/ excitement

/ disappointment

7. the entrance to…

...的入口

8.by oneself

独自地

/ 独自一人

9. think highly of = think well / much of

s对某人评价好

/ 看重…

think lowly /badly/ ill / little/poorly of

对某人评价不好

/轻视…

10. debate

n / v 争论, 辩论

11. take turns to do sth =

take turns (at) doing sth=

do sth by turns

轮流做某事

in turn

依次, 一个一个地

by turns

轮流, 交替

Step 5 Speaking & Writing 1.

2.

3.

Discussion: let the students have a discussion in pairs about which person gave the best evidence. Try to write their reasons. Read the letter from a German newspaper. The writer gives his opinion about what should be done with a cultural relic that has been found. Read it carefully and see if you agree with him. 4.

5.

Try to write a reply letter. Debating: have a debate about doing with the found amber room. Step 6

Homework

1.

Finish writing the letter 2.

Review the whole unit