Using LanguageⅠ教学实录及点评

Teaching Plan for Using Language Teaching Aims: To learn to tell facts from opinions To write a reply letter To listen and speak about cultural relics Teaching Design Step One: Homework Checking Check the homework of the Attributive Clause Step Two: Talking (facts and opinions) ⑴ Morning, class, we always say, “We must respect facts and can’t wholly depend on one’s opinions.” But can you tell me:

What does it mean when say, “It is a fact”?

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

Keys for reference: A: A fact must be real, objective and without any personal judgment. So it can be proved. B: An opinion always expresses one’s own ideas. It is always subjunctive. So it has not been proved yet. ⑵ Warming up by questioning

Turn to Page 5. Read the passage and tell us: If you want to go in for law against somebody, and if you want to win, what’s the most important thing you should do first?

What makes a judge decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe? Keys for reference: Searching for facts of course. The more, the better.

The evidences offered by the eyewitnesses make the judge decide which one is believable and which is not. ⑶ Guided reading

Reading and defining Read the passage and define: What is a fact? What is an opinion? What is evidence? Reading and translating Read the passage and translate in into Chinese paragraph by paragraph. (Ask someone to do it.) Reading and understanding Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the part. Copy them into your homework after class as homework. Collocation from Using Language on Page 5 in a trial, rather than, …more than…, to tell the truth, agree with(to), It can be proved that…, no reason to lie, a reply to a letter, think highly of, search for, return the treasure to, cost them a lot of time and money Step Three: Listening 1 Now, this unit we learn that the Amber Room is missing, and as we know, people never stopped searching for the Amber Room. This time we’ll listen to what three people say they know about the missing Amber Room. Before we listen to them, I’ll present some related new words to you to help you understand them easily. Please look at them and read them. Explode爆炸, Czch捷克, mayor市长, melt熔化, sub(sub marine)潜水艇, survivor幸存者, Titanic泰坦尼克号 Look at the forms, and discuss the forms, What are facts? (What they heard, saw and did are facts)

What are opinions? (What they believed are opinions) Then play the tape, get them listen twice to catch the useful information and fill in the blanks with the information. Step four Sppeaking 1) Discuss in pairs which person gave the best evidence, using the information in the former section.

2) Write down the reasons for your choice.

Step Five Pair Work Share your ideas with another group and choose the one with the best reasons. Present your discussion to the class.

Step Six Homework 1. Review what we have learned in this lesson. 2. Preview Writing