Using LanguageⅠ优秀课堂实录

Book Two

Unit 1 Cultural relics Using

Language Period One

Reading: A Fact or an Opinion? Teaching Aims and Demands: Knowledge Objects: 1.

Get students to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part:trail, explode, entrance,evidence,to one’s surprise. 2.

Let students know what a fact is, what an opinion is and the difference between them. Ability Objects: 1.

Develop students’ reading skills by extensive reading and enable them to learn how to use different reading skills to read different reading materials. 2.

Train students’ speaking ability and enable them to tell the difference between facts and opinions and talk about something which interests them and about something which they are familiar with. Emotional Objects 1.

Enable students to learn to protect cultural relics in their hometown or city. 2.

Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork. Teaching Key Points: 1.

Develop students’ reading skills by extensive reading.

2.

Train students’ speaking ability by telling the difference between facts and opinions. Teaching Difficult Points: 1.

Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming and scanning. 2.

Get students to learn how to tell facts from opinions. Teaching Methods: 1.

Task-based teaching method 2.

Cooperative learning 3.

Discussion Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Greet the class as usual. Stept 2 Warming up by checking Facts or Opinions. ( ) 1. A VW Passat can go faster than 100kms an hour. ( ) 2. I think it’s the best car for a family. ( ) 3. I think driving a car is wrong because it causes damage to the environment. ( ) 4. I don’t like public transport because it’s so crowded. ( ) 5. I know that driving a car spoils the air in Beijing. ( ) 6.The Beijing Olympic games is the best ever. ( ) 7. It will be very hot when the Olympic games are being held. ( ) 8. More countries than ever before will be coming to take part in the

Olympic games. Step 3 Reading this passage A FACT OR AN OPINION ? 1.

Reading and defining What is a fact? What is an opinion? What is evidence? 2.

Reading and translating Ask students to read the passage carefully and translate it into Chinese paragraph by paragraph. 3.

Listening and reading aloud Play the tape for students to listen and follow. Ask them to tead the passage aloud. 4.

The teacher hoes through the passage with students and lets them underline all the useful expressions or collections. Then ask students to copy them to their notebooks after class as homework. Useful Words and expressions: trail, explode, entrance,evidence,to one’s surprise Collections: in a trail, rather than, agree with, It can be proved that... Step 4 Reading a man’s story 1.

Ask students to read the story about what happened to the Amber Room and then decide whether it is a fact or an opinion. Let them give their reasons.

2.

Read the story again and fill in the table.

Name

Place

Job

Time

What he heard

What he saw

What he believes

Step 5 Homework 1. Finish off the Workbook exercises. 2. Learn all the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.