河北省新乐市第一中学高中英语 Unit1 Cultural relics-Speaking and writing课件 新人教版必修2.pptVIP

Writing on P7 Read the letter from a German newspaper. The writer thinks that those who find the Amber Room should decide what to do with it. Work in pairs. Discuss with your partner the following questions: 1. What do you think the Amber Room belongs to? 2. What should you do with things you have found even if the search cost you time and money? 3. Do you agree with the writer? Further Activity Have a class debate about “what should we do with the cultural relics?”. Some students may think that they can keep them. Others may disagree with them. Tell your reasons. Write a report about your debate, using the following guidance. Para. 1: State the question. Para. 2: Give the ideas that agree with the question and the reasons. Para. 3: Give the ideas that disagree with the question and the reasons. Para. 4: Give you opinion and the result of the class vote. The class had a debate and discussed whether it is right for whoever finds valuable cultural relics to keep them. Sample writing for Exercise 4 The question of the debate Those who agreed that if you find cultural relics you can keep them had three reasons. First, they said that time and money had been spent looking for them so the finders deserved them. Second, they said nobody would look for lost relics if they could not keep them. Third, they said that there are so many old relics that it does not matter if one or two belong to those who find them. The ideas that support the question with reasons Those who disagreed also had three reasons. First, they said all cultural relics are valuable for finding out about the past. Second, they said that it is dishonest to take things that do not belong to you. Third, they said that every cultural relic belongs to the country and not any one person. The ideas that disagree with the question with reasons We had a class vote. Those who disagreed with the question won. The debate changed the minds of some people who had originally s