Using LanguageⅠ教学设计实例

Unit 1

Cultural relics Using Language A Fact or an Opinion ----by潮南区峡晖中学

胡晓敏

Teaching goals 【Knowledge aims】

Get the students to learn some useful new words and expressions in this passage and know more about the differences between a fact and an opinion. 【Ability aims】

Develop students’ reading ability and let them know how to use the new words and expressions. 【Emotional aims】

Strengthen students’ interest in English.

Teaching important points 1. Get the students to know more about the differences between a fact and an opinion. 2. Get the students to sum up the main idea. 3. Get the students know how to use the new words and expressions.

Teaching difficult points 1. Develop the students’ reading ability. 2. Enable the students to learn how to use the new words and expressions.

Teaching methods 1.

Task-based teaching and learning. 2.

Questioning-and-answering activity. 3.

Reading.

Teaching aids

The multi-media and other normal teaching tools

Teaching procedures

Step I Fast reading Go through the reading fast and the answer the questions: 1. What is a fact? A fact is anything that can be proved. 2. What is an opinion? An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved. 3. What is an evidence? An evidence is true information which must be facts rather than opinions.

Step II Sum up the main idea Sum up the main idea with the help of some information.

An example: The text tells us that a fact is anything that has been proved while an opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved.

Step III Detail reading 1.

Choose the best answer. 1) According to the passage, which of the following is a fact?

A．A horse is a good animal. B．A horse is an animal. C．A horse runs faster than a lion. D．A horse is what we need when we’re tired of walking. 2) According to the passage, which of the following is an opinion? A．In the past, people believed that the earth was flat. B．Chinese is spoken by most people in the world. C．Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world. D．The earth goes around the sun. 3) How does the writer explain the two terms of “fact” and “opinion”? A．By giving examples. B．By giving definitions(定义)．

C．By giving evidence. D．Both A and B.

4) What is “evidence” in a trial?

A．True information given by eyewitnesses. B．Facts that everybody knows. C．What a judge believes is the truth. D．What the eyewitnesses believe is true.

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Now read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber

Room and fill in the following form.

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Read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber Room again. Do you think it is a fact or an opinion? Give your reasons. An example: I think it is an opinion that what is in the boxes is gold or the Amber Room because Jan Hasek did not see what was in the boxes. He listened to other people’s ideas of what might have been inside. So his evidence is an opinion.

Step IV Language points Prove 4.

Perhaps this book will prove of use to you in your studies. 5.

She proved a very strict teacher. 6.

She may prove to be the most suitable person for the job.

Agree 

I agree with all of what you said. 

The verb must agree with the subject in person and number.

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The climate here does not agree with me.

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They agree on the date for the meeting. 

He has agreed to our suggestion about the holiday. 

He agreed to lend his bike to me.

Rather than 

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She rather than you is right. She preferred going with us to staying at home. She preferred to go with us rather than stay at home. She would rather go with us than stay at home. She would go with us rather than stay at home. Step V Homework Preview the ex4-5 in P5-6