factoropinion从阅读到写作.ppt

Facts and opinions --What is a Fact? --What is an Opinion? --Use facts to support opinions. Read the following sentences and Write F if it is a fact or O if it is an opinion. A Fact or An Opinion? 1. It’s snowing outside. ( ) 2. It’s a nice day. ( ) F O For sentence 1, you could look outside and actually see for yourself whether it is snowing or not. Sentence 2 is based, not on fact, but on one person’s belief or feeling about what makes a day “nice”, you might think it is not a nice day outside because it is either warmer or colder than you think. Read and Summarize what is fact a and what an opinion is. A fact is anything that can be proved. Reading An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved. Read a man’s story about what happened to the Amber Room quickly. Reading Where was the Amber Room? It was buried in the mine. What people hear is a fact. What people see is a fact. What people believe is an opinion. Is this a fact or an opinion? Which are facts and which are opinions? My father’s picture was in the newspaper yesterday. 2) Lily seems nervous about the game with Westwood. 3) MS. Johnson is in charge of the school science exhibition. 4) That cake was much too sweet. 5) This picnic will be the best one we’ve had. 6) In 1985, Christmas will fall on a Thursday. 7) The Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall. 8) The Empire State Building is a beautiful building. F F o F O O F O 中国人往往注意理性分析、逻辑思维,往往注重结果,总要得出结论。西方人写作则较多利用实证分析、实例分析方法。他们注重对过程和事实的描述,往往不得出结果,让读者自己分析、并得出结论。“English writing is more direct. Things are clearly explained. Details or facts are required to support the topic.” （Susan Krantz 2001） 《外籍教师点评英语作文》 Read what an American official said after he visited Quzhou, Zhejiang and find out opinions and facts: “One Foot in the Future and One Foot in the Past”. This is my foremost impression as I visit Quzhou. One cannot miss the old and the new existin