1、Period 3 Extensive ReadingThe General Idea of This Period：This period is about the reading of the passages：the differences between a fact and an opinion.It can help the students make clear how to divide what a fact is and what an opinion is.Teaching Aims：1.Train the students reading ability.2.Learn

2、some useful words and drill.3.Enable the students to know the differences between a fact and an opinion.Teaching Important Point：Help the students to understand the passages and make sure how to divide a fact and an opinion.Teaching Difficulties： 1.How to improve the students reading ability.2.How t

3、o help the students divide a fact and an opinion in our real life.Teaching Methods：Asking and answering activity to check the students understanding of the text；individual，pair or group work to finish each task.Teaching Aids：1.A tape recorder. 2.A multi-media computer and a blackboard.Teaching Proce

4、dures：Step 1 Warming up1.Greetings.2.Check the answers of the exercises about the attributive clauses.Step 2 Reading，Listening and WritingT：Today well learn a passage about facts and opinions，but before we come to the text，please answer the following questions：1.What must a judge do in a trial?2.Wha

5、t is a fact? 3.What is an opinion?Then check the answers.T：Now please listen to the tape and make sure what the three people say about the missing Amber Room，pretending that you are judges.While you are listening you can take notes and fill in the forms.Decide which of the three people you think gav

6、e the best evidence.In other words，find out who is giving the most facts.Listen to the tape for three times，then show some Ss notes on the screen，and check the answers.Step 3 Reading on WorkbookT：As we know cultural relics are important and useful，its necessary for us to protect them.After all，they

7、belong to the whole world.Today，well read a passage that is about a common person who saves the cultural relicsBIG FENG TO THE RESCUE.Read the passage for the first time and answer：Why does Big Feng want to save cultural relics?Suggested answer：Big Feng and his friends offer each other help whoever

8、needs help.So Feng believes that his work to save cultural relics is a way to thank his friends.T：Now listen to tape，and answer the following questions：1.What does “a big heart” mean?In which ways does Feng Jicai show that he has a big heart?2.Why does he think it is more important to do this than t

9、o write his novels?3.It is very time-consuming（耗時的） and expensive for Feng Jicai to take care of cultural relics.Can you think of some other ways to help him with his projects?First，the students discuss in pairs，then check the answers.Suggested answers：1.That he has a big heart means that he is very

10、 kind.You might say he is a gentle giant.His real name is Feng Jicai，and he has written many novels about life in China.Several years ago，he put down his pen and began to protect cultural relics in Tianjin，where he lives.2.He knows the past is not only for us to enjoy but also for the children of th

11、e future，so we should protect some old things such as the old streets and buildings.And more people follow what he does，not what he says.So he thinks it is important to do this than to write his novels. 3.Yes，I think there are some other ways to help him with his projects.For example，he and his frie

12、nds can make a video about the old streets and buildings and broadcast this program on TV so that more people can know the importance of protecting the cultural relics and really take efficient actions to protect them.T：Now read the text again and answer how he saves the cultural relics of his homet

13、own.While the students read the text，the teacher should ask them to underline the key words that are useful for them to answer the question.Later，the teacher gives the answers on the screen.Suggested answer：In order to protect the cultural relics of his hometown，he goes out and does a lot of things

14、as possible as he can.One of his biggest projects was to protect the oldest street in Tianjin.Another project was more successful：he got the government to buy some land in the center of the city so it could not be sold to businesses.Not long ago，he and other writers and artists took photos of the ol

15、d parts of Tianjin.And the photos were put into an expensive book that was very popular.And the money from the book helps his projects.T：Who can list other famous cultural relics in China besides the ones mentioned in the reading?Suggested answers：There are many cultural relics in China besides the

16、ones mentioned in the reading，such as：The Great Wall，The Summer Palace，Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties，the Forbidden City，Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor，the West Lake and so on.Step 4 DiscussionT：After we learn the passage about Big Feng，we know that everyone can do something to p

17、rotect our cultural relics，so now please discuss in groups what we should do to protect our cultural relics.After five minutes，ask some Ss to tell their groups ideas and encourage the Ss to do it in our real life.Step 5 Homework1.Do a research about one of the cultural relics in China.2.Prepare for the next class.Step 6 The Design of the Writing