Using LanguageⅠ课堂实录【3】

Lesson Plan Book2 Unit1 Cultural Relics (Using Language) 郑晓彤

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Teaching Goals:

1. To learn to tell facts from opinions. 2. To have the listening task. 3. To learn to talk about cultural relics. 

Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming-up (Listening) Purpose: To know more about Forbidden City and Chinese cultural relics

Step 2 Reading Purpose: To get Ss to know the difference between a fact and an opinion.

1. Definition

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The weather was hot when Beijing Olympic Games were held. •

The Beijing Olympic Games was the best ever. A fact must be real, objective and without a personal judgment. So it can be proved. An opinion always expresses one’s own ideas. It is always subjunctive. So it has not been proved.

2. Read the passage (P5) and answer the following questions: (1) 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? (2) What makes a judge decide which eyewitness he can believe and which not? Suggested Answers:

(1) Searching for facts. The more, the better. (2) The evidences offered by the eyewitnesses.

Step 3 Guided reading 1. Read the passage and define what evidence is. 2. Read the passage and translate each paragraph into Chinese. 3. Read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the part. Suggested Answers:

Collocation from Using Language on page 5 in a trial, rather than, more than, to tell the truth, agree with, It can be proved that ..., no reason to, a reply to, think highly of, search for, return…to…

Step 4 Speaking

Purpose:

To learn how to ask for or give opinions. 1. Group discussion (1) We often use some expressions to ask for opinions. What are they? What do you think of ...? Do you believe ... ? How can you be sure of ...? How do you know that?

(2) We often use some expressions to give opinions. What are they?

I think ... I don't think ...

I don't agree that ... I suppose that ... 2. Use the definition to decide whether it’s a fact or a opinion

A VW Passat can go faster than 100 kms an hour.

I think it’s the best car for a family.

I think driving a car is wrong because it causes damage to the environment.

I don’t like public transport because it’s so crowded.

I know that driving a car spoils the air in Beijing.

The Beijing Olympic Games will be the best ever.

More countries than ever before will be coming to take part in the Olympic Games.

It will be very hot when the Olympic Games are being held.

Step 5 Note taking 1.Listen to the tape and fill in the forms (P5).

As we know, people have never stopped searching for the Amber Room. This time we'll listen to what three people say they know about the missing Amber Room. Get Ss to share their forms and tell what are facts and what are opinions in the three forms.

Suggested Answers:

Of the three eyewitnesses, only Anna Petrov has no selfish reason. In particular, she is not involved in any current effort to find the treasure. Therefore she is the most believable.

Jan Hasek is less believable because he owns a little restaurant near the mine. If the search stopped, his business would suffer.

Hans Braun is also less believable, because somebody has asked him for help.

2. Individual work (1) Sometimes we may fall into or face a moral choice. That is a moral dilemma. Let’s read the letter (P7) and see what's Johann’s choice and opinion. Answer the following questions.

① What's Johann’s opinion about the Amber Room?

② Do you agree with Johann?

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Homework: Finish the exercises in the workbook so as to consolidate what has been learned.