Unit 1 Cultural relics

b. 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 option always expresses one’s own ideas. it is always subjunctive. so it has not been proved.
warming up by questioning
turn to page 5. read the passage and tell me:
a. 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?
b. what makes a judge decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe.
keys for reference:
a. searching for facts of course. the more, the better.
b. the evidences offered by the eyewitnesses make the judge decide which one is believable and which is not.
ii. guided reading
1. reading and defining
read the passage and define: what is a fact? what is an opinion? what is an evidence?
2. reading and translating
read the passage and translate it into chinese paragraph by paragraph. tom, you are to do paragraph 1, please…
3. reading and underlining
next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the part. copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
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 lie, a reply to a letter, think highly of, search for, return the treasure to, cost them a lot of time and money
4. 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. 市長, melt vt. 熔化, sub (sub marine) n. 潛水艇，水雷, survivor n. 幸存者, titanic n. 泰坦尼克船
5. 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.
6. 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…