2019学年度人教版必修四Unit 1 Women of achievement Period3Learning about Language教案设计

(Subject-verb agreement)

Introduction

In this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions, and then to discover and learn to use the following useful structures: Subject-verb agreement. The following steps of teaching may be taken: Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions，Reading and thinking，Doing exercises 1 and 2 on page 5，Ready used materials for Subject-verb agreement and Closing down by doing a quiz.

Objectives

To learn about subject-verb agreement

To discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions

To discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

1. Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Turn to page 4 and do exercises. Check your answers against your classmates'.

2. Reading and thinking

Turn to page 2 and read the text of A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE. As you read on, pay attention to the forms of sentence predicates and the subject-verb agreement shown in the sentences.

For reference: Our group are..., Watching a family of chimps is..., Nobody before has fully understood... 3. Doing exercises on page 5

Turn to page 5. Look at the two sentences: Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest. And our group includes six boys and five girls. Have you noticed any difference between them? Yes. If the word "group" refers to different members, use a plural verb. If the word "group" is considered as a whole, use a singular verb. Now fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given verbs in brackets on page 5. And