2019学年度人教版必修三Unit 5 Canada - "The True North"Period4 Grammar教案

The teaching period mainly deals with the following: 1). Reviewing noun clauses as the subject; 2). Learning the new grammar item: noun clauses as the appositive.

Important points: get the students to understand and use noun clauses as the appositive.

Difficult points: enable students to learn how to use noun clauses as the appositive correctly.

Step 1 Revision

1. Check the homework exercises.

2. Dictate some new words and expressions.

3. Underline the noun clauses in each sentence of the following and then tell what kind of noun clause it is.

What it was to become was a mystery.

I don`t know who will help Henry to win the bet.

His trouble is that he doesn`t know anyone in London.

It has not been decided yet when the new restaurant will open.

It looked as if it was going to snow.

Do you know why he crossed his arms?

Step 2 Preparation

Show the following two sentences for them to see. Ask them to read each of them and then underline its appositive.

Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting at the airport.

He was going to take them and their baggage to catch "The True North", the cross-Canada train.

The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

We were very excited at the news that our team had won.

Step 3 Grammar learning

1. Reading and learning: turn to page 34 to read through the reading passage and find out all the sentences where noun clauses are used as the oppositive and underline them.

The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

Some people have the idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days, but they forget the fact that Canada is 5,500 kilometers from coast to coast.