Using LanguageⅠ教学设计(第二课时)

Book 2 Unit 1

A lesson plan for using language I.

Teaching aims：

To help students’ distinguish the difference between “opinion” and “fact”

To train and promote students’ listening ability and oral English To enable students’ to learn more information about the Amber Room II.

Teaching procedures

Step 1 Listening

Now, boys and girls, 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. Before we listen to them, I’ll present some related new words to you to help you understand them easily. Please look at the screen and read after me. explode vt. 爆炸, Czch n. 捷克, mayor n. 市长, melt vt. 熔化, sub (sub marine) n. 潜水艇，水雷, survivor n. 幸存者, Titanic n. 泰坦尼克船

Step 2

Sharing and Correcting Well done. Now share your forms with your partner and tell me in the three forms: What are facts? What are opinions? Li Ming, do you want a try? Keys: What they heard, saw, did are facts. And what they believe are opinions. Step 3

Reviewing We often use some expressions to ask for opinions.

What are they? Oh, yes. What do you think of …?

Do you believe …?

How can you be sure of …?

How do you know that?

And we often use some expressions to give opinions.

What are they?

Ok, Tom, Please. Oh, yes. They are:

I think…

/ I don’t think…

I don’t agree that…

/ I suppose that…

Step 4 Discussing Please look at exercise 3, and discuss which person gave the best evidence. Use the expressions above to help you. Before we discuss, let’s deal with the following discussion: A.

What is the best evidence? B.

How can we know which eyewitness is most believable? Keys:

A. The best evidence is factual and is given by a person who is believable. B. The most believable eyewitness is the one who has nothing to gain from telling a lie. Well done. Let’s come to the discussion “Which person gave the best evidence?”

Keys fore reference: 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 he is working for a company trying to find the ship which carried the treasures in the Baltic sea. Of the three eyewitnesses, only Anna Petrov has no selfish reason for saying what she has said. In particular, she is not involved in any current effort to find the treasure. Therefore she is the most believable.