Using LanguageⅠ教学实录及点评

A Fact or an Opinion Teaching goals

1.Target language Key words and phrases

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

2. Ability goals

Enable students to ask for opinions and give opinions. 3. Learning ability goals

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

Teaching procedures Step I. Reading

1. Review what the students learned about Amber Room 2. Ask the students to read this passage A FACT OR AN OPINION? to learn what is a fact and what is an opinion. 3. After reading: T: Now who can tell us what is a fact? S1: A fact is anything that can be proved. T: How about an opinion?

S2: An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved. T: Now judge whether the sentences on the slide are facts or opinions. 4. Show some sentences on the slide. Mr. Jones has two sons and one daughter. That picture is by Rembrandt. Her house is really beautiful. My friend has six fingers on one hand. The group will stop in Denver overnight. The Bulls are better than the Knicks. Nine plus one equals ten. T: Now imagine that you are a judge; you have to make a decision whether a story is a

fact or it’s just an opinion. Look at Exercise 2.

5. Let them read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber Room quickly. And according to what they have known about a fact and an opinion to decide what the story is and give their reason, using the structure:

I think it is a______________ because_____________________. Suggested answer: I think it is an opinion because the man didn’t see the Amber Room with his own eyes. He just saw some German soldiers putting wooden boxes in the mine. He heard about the news that the Amber Room and some gold were buried in the mine. But that may be a rumour.

Then let students complete the table in Exercise 3. NAME PLACE Jan Hasek Job A miner April, 1945 A mine in Czech Time Republic What he heard What he saw Something exploded He saw some German soldiers putting boxes in the mine; and a week later he saw the entrance to the mine was closed.

What he believes Step 2. Listening The Amber Room and some gold are buried in the mine. T: In fact, till now many theories have been put forth about the fate of the Amber Room and it has been the subject of short films and books. Even now, several teams of treasure hunters continue to search for it. So the so called eyewitnesses are very important. Now we will hear another two people talk about what happened to the Amber Room. 1. Play the tape, and ask the students to pay attention to the two questions:

For Part A: Where was the Amber Room lost?

For Part B: How was the Amber Room lost?

2. Finish the two blanks in Exercise 4. This is a good time to train the students to listen and catch the key information in the passages.

3. Exercise 5 gets students to listen for specific information. Play the tape again. Stop after each part and fill in the blanks. Step 3. Homework 1. write down five sentences about fact and five about opinion. 2. Practice the expressions in Exercise 1 on page 6.