Periods 4-5 Grammar and usage

　　整体设计

　　教材分析

　　This period will focus on grammar and usage: the attributive clause. At the beginning of this period, the teacher should give the students some time to go over what they learned in the last period.

　　The grammar item in this unit deals with attributive clauses. Students are first expected to learn about what an attributive clause is and the functions of relative pronouns and relative adverbs used to introduce attributive clauses. The teacher should first introduce what the attributive is, what can be used as an attributive, the teacher had better present some sentences containing the attributive clauses by asking the students to do some exercises. Get the students to find all the sentences containing the attributive clauses in the two passages. After finding them, the teacher can ask the students to analyze them and understand the functions of the relative pronouns in those sentences. After that the teacher should give the students clear explanations about the usage of the grammar.

　　After mastering the rules of the attributive clause, the students should be given more exercises to consolidate what they have learnt. The teacher should arrange some activities carefully and creatively. First let them do some simple exercises. For example, combine the two sentences using the attributive clause. Then ask them to make some sentences using the attributive clause.

　　三维目标

　　1. To give a brief introduction to attributive clauses.

　　2. To make the students get familiar with attributive clauses and get them to know some more usages of relative pronouns.

　　重点难点

　　The basic usage of the relative pronouns and learn to use them in different situations.

　　教学方法

　　1. Discussion in pairs or in groups.

　　2. Task-based in-class activities.

　　3. Explanations of some rules of the attributive clause.

　　教具准备

　　A multimedia room.

　　课前准备

　　1. Ask the students to think about how to describe thing or a person. That is to say, if we want to modify them, what will we use? The teacher can ask the students to list some examples.

　　2. Ask the students to go over the sentence structures and to tell the different functions of each word in the sentence.

　　教学过程

　　→Step 1 Lead-in

　　The students will learn that an attributive clause is used to modify a noun and is usually put after the noun. They will also learn the different functions of relative pronouns or relative adverbs used in attributive clauses.

　　Ask the students to recall what can be used to modify a noun in English.

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