Unit1 Living with technology

Grammar and usage

Teaching aims:

1. students will be able to review the usage of transitive and intransitive verbs;

2. 中华资源库students will be able to read brief explanations of the grammar items and draw conclusions;

3. students will be able to learn how to use them in different situations and by fulfilling some written tasks;

4. students will be able to know how to accumulate their knowledge of the language every day and try to use what has been learnt as often as possible.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead in

What's the biggest difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?

• An American, Philo Farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the TV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

• Times sure have changed!

• Transitive verbs are verbs that take an object. Intransitive verbs do not take an object.

Step 2 Discovering more

Read through P8 and try to find out more differences between them.

• 1. An American, Philo Farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the TV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

• 2. It was not until the early 1950s that most tape recorders began using plastic tape as they do today.

• 3. Who can foresee what the future will bring?

• The object can be a noun, a pronoun, an infinitive, a verb-ing or an object clause.

• On my birthday uncle gave me a mobile phone as a gift.

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• This will soon make DVDs things of the past.

• They also make TV accessible to people who live far away from cities.

• The complement can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, a prepositional phrase or a non-finite verb which refers back to the object.

By the late 1970s, video recorders small and cheap enough for home use were