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Speaking: Expressing opinions

Knowledge Objective: to enable students to learn to express their opinions effectively Competence Objective: to practise some sentence patterns of expressing their opinions. Emotional Objective: to improve the students’ skills of communication.

Teaching Procedures: I.

Pre-task: Daily topic: Ask three students to talk on the following topic. When you think about bullying, you might think of a child being bullied by another in the schoolyard. As more young people have access to computers and cell phones, traditional bullying has gone digital, which has not yet gained awareness in Chinese parents.

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While- task:

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How to express opinions effectively

(1). Introduction: The first thing to do is to make the audience trust you and view you as a person who has the same basic beliefs and values they do. Begin by discussing common areas of agreement. (2). Main body: This is where you present the support and evidence you gathered to prove your topic is relevant and important and to convince those who disagree with you to change their minds. (3). Memorable Conclusion: Your final remarks should make people think about the future and remind them to believe in your opinion or take some type of action.

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Familiarize students with the basic pattern of expressing opinions: I believe/ think/ feel that ______________________________________________________, because ____________________________________________________________________. For example, ________________________________________________________________. So ________________________________________________________________________.

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Speech work: choose one of the following possible real-life situations, and make an informal speech. (1). A friend of yours thinks watching TV is a waste of time. Convince him/ her it isn’t. (2). Your parents don’t want you to work while you are going to school. Persuade them to let you get a part-time job. (3). You are running for president of the students union. Convince a group of students to vote for you. (4). Your friend smokes too many cigarettes. Convince him to cut down.

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Panel Discussion A panel is a group of persons selected to work as a team to discuss a topic before an audience. Roles: Panel leader

School principal

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Teacher

Students

Parents

Topic: Should examinations for school children be abolished or not?

Procedures:

(1). Divide the class into groups of 7 to form panels for discussion;

(2). Each group chooses a topic, and studies the topic carefully;

(3). Each student chooses a role;

(4). The panel leader starts the discussion by introducing the panel members and the topic. It is the responsibility of the panel leader to make sure that each member has a say and that the discussion goes on smoothly. The following questions might be used to elicit talks. 1). Would you please say something, Mr./Mrs…. ? 2). What do you have to say about this… ? 3). Perhaps you could tell us how students normally look at this issue?

(5). Group members speak on the topic or answer the questions asked.

(6). Select some groups to conduct panel discussion before the class. The audience are encouraged to raise questions to the panel members.

Here are some ideas for your reference. Examinations are: --- important ways of testing knowledge and ability --- often tests of memory, not of ability --- ignore non-academic abilities in learning --- worry-makers, decide one’s future --- do not train you to think for yourself --- arouse unnecessary competitions between students, teachers and schools

However, examinations are: --- up to this day, the best ways of testing learning result --- also the quickest and easiest to operate in testing students --- becoming more and more objective and reliable --- often not the only ways used to assess the students

--- painful but so are many other things in life

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Post –task: To practice expressing opinions on a piece of news.

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