Teaching Aims£º

1.Get the Ss to learn to discuss which person gives the best evidence.

2.Help the Ss learn how to organize a letter to show their agreement and disagreement.

Teaching Important Points£º

1.Get the Ss to learn to express their agreement and disagreement.

2.Enable the students to organize a letter in the proper and efficient way.

Teaching Difficult Point£º

How to write a letter in a correct way.

Teaching Methods£º

1.Create some situations for the Ss to talk actively in public.

2.Practice to improve the students’ writing ability.

Teaching Aid£º

A multimedia computer.

Teaching Procedures£º

Step 1 Revision

1.Greetings.

2.Ask the students to tell something about their researches.

Step 1 Speaking

T£ºLast class we learnt a passage about how to divide a fact and an opinion£¬and finished the forms about the three people say they know about the missing Amber Room£¬now please look at the forms again£¬and discuss which person gave the best evidence in pairs.You can use the following expressions to help you£º

Are you sure he/she was telling the truth?

How do you know that?

How can you be sure he/she was telling the truth?

Why/Why not?

That can’t be true.

I £¨don’t£©agree with you.

It can be proved.

I think they have said useful things.

I £¨don’t£©believe...£¬because....

It is £¨not£©a fact

I don’t agree that...

The truth is £¨not£©easy to know.

...has no reason to lie.

T£ºNow write down a short list of reasons for your choice.You may begin like this£º

“It can be proved that...because...”

For example£ºIt can be proved that he owns a restaurant because we can go to his hometown and find it.

£¨Each group should have a leader£¬after the discussion£¬the leader will give a report.£©

£¨Several minutes later£©

T£ºWho can give a short report about your list to the class?

£¨Ask some leaders of the groups to give a report.£©

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