Unit 1 Cultural relics

7. 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.
8. reading and writing
sometimes we may fall into or face a moral choice. that is a moral dilemma. let’s read the letter on page 7 and see what’s johann’s choice and opinion. ok, finished? now answer the following questions:
a. what’s johann’s opinion about the amber room?
b. what’s his father’s opinion about the things found by him?
c. what happened to johann when she was a pupil?
keys:
a. johann thinks the people who find the amber room should keep it for them own.
b. his father thinks as johann does.
c. she found a little money and kept it to himself.
9. completing the letters a & b and then giving your own letters
  •when you write your letter, you may choose to agree or not agree with the writer.
  •you must give a reason why you agree or don’t agree with the writer.
  •be sure to give an example from your own life so that the reader can better understand your opinion.
ⅲ closing down
closing down by a debating
there is a long ancient wall around a less developed town.
it is reported it has a long history, dating back to over 5 century bc. the local government is collecting money to repair and rebuild the wall. it has cost a lot of money. some of your classmates think it is not worth. some think it’s a good way to develop the local economy. now group 1 and 2 against group 3 and 4. let’s have the debating.
closing down by dictation
  •the design for the room was of the fancy style popular in those days.