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Teaching Plan of Unit1 Cultural Relics Using language Reading and litening

制作人：黄薇

重庆市黔江中学

I. Analysis of the teaching material:

This teaching material is the fourth part of Unit1, Book2 Cultural Relics, the topic of which is cultural relics protection. It is made up of two short reading passages and a listening task. This period is aimed at improving students’ judgment on people’s statements; deciding what to believe or not and listening for specific words. II. 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

Knowledge aims: 1.

Get the students to tell the difference between a fact and an opinion. 2.

Enable the students to understand the listening material and make notes quickly. Ability aims: After the class, the students will be able to 1.

Let students know the definition of fact and opinion , so understand the difference between a fact and an opinion. 2. listen for key words and specific information. 3. Lead the students to make notes quickly while listening, using abbreviation. III. Teaching important points: 1.

Help the students to find out how to make judgment on whether a

story is a fact or an opinion. 2.

Help the students to deal with the difficult words and sentences. 3.

Get the students to focus on some specific information while listening (who, where, what). IV. Teaching difficult points: 1. Help students learn how to tell a fact from an opinion.

2. How to predict the whole story with incomplete sentences, thus lessening their anxiety. V. Teaching aids:

Multi-media, a projector and a blackboard. VI. Teaching methods:

Task-based learning; Pair & group work; Practicing through activities Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式: Step I Reading

T: Yesterday we learned something about Amber Room and we know that the one that we now can see is a rebuilt one. Till today, many people are haunting for the lost one, which is now still a mystery. Where is it now? How did it disappear? Is there anyone know the mystery? Is there any eyewitnesses? Today we will read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber Room, and find if the story is a fact or just an opinion. Before doing this, we should know what a fact is and what an opinion is.

Ask the students to read this passage A FACT OR AN OPINION? to learn what is a fact and what is an opinion. After reading 1．How does the writer explain the two terms of“fact” and “opinion”？

D A．By giving examples. B．By giving definitions(定义)．

C．By giving evidence. D．Both A and B. 2．What is the main idea of the passage?

C A．A fact is anything that can be proved. B．An opinion is not good evidence in a trial. C．It is about definitions of a fact and an opinion，as well as evidence. D．A fact and an opinion have different effects on evidence.

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. Show the following on the slide. 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.

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1.A horse is an animal. 2. Earth runs around the sun. 3. Her house is really well decorated. 4. The population of Canada is about 29 million and the capital is Ottawa. •

5. Bin Bin Fan is the most beautiful actress in China. 6. Nine plus one equals ten. 7. The German football team is the best in the world. 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 rumor.

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 Something exploded

What he saw 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 The Amber Room and some gold are buried in the mine. Step II. Listening 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.

Pre-Listening (4 minutes)

Let the students go through the directions and exercises, guessing what the listening text is about. Explain new words: treasure, attack, melt, sink. (class work)

Lead the students to use abbreviations for help in listening, such as A R for the

Amber Room. Encourage them to form their own style. 【Purpose: to teach the students to form good habits of predicting and using abbreviations, thus enhancing their confidence in listening.】

Listening (12 minutes) Listen for specific information. After they check the answers in groups, report them to the class. Pause and repeat the key sentences if necessary. (group work) 【Purpose: to

improve their listening ability for specific information about what, who, where】

Listen to Part A and write down where the Amber Room was lost. At sea Listen to Part B and write down how the Amber Room was lost.

In a fire Ask the students to finish task on page5 part 3 . Filling the blanks

Step 7

Assessment (4 minutes) 1. Tell each other a piece of news in our school and judge whether it is a fact or an opinion. (pair work) 2. Ask several students to report their sentences in class. Others give comments. (class work)

【Purpose: to check the students’ understanding of the reading passage; to encourage the students to evaluate their own performances and learn from their peers.】