3. Have students learn noun clauses the predicative.

　　That's why we've given you the letter.

　　The fact is that I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand. . .

　　能力目标

　　Enable students to use noun clauses as the object and the predicative correctly and properly according to the context.

　　情感目标

　　1. Get students to become interested in grammar learning.

　　2. Develop students' sense of group cooperation.

　　教学过程

　　设计方案

　　→Step 1 Revision

　　1. Check the homework exercises.

　　2. Dictate some new words and expressions.

　　→Step 2 Leading-in by a game

　　Play the game of "Pass the message". Show the same written message to the first person in each team of the class. Ask the person to pass the message on orally in indirect speech as quickly as possible. The first team that finishes it must put up their hands and the last person tells the class the message. If he/she has got it right, that team has won the game.

　　Example 1:

　　Message: There will be no homework tonight.

　　S1: The teacher said that there would be no homework tonight.

　　Example 2:

　　Message: The fact is that she has been ill for 3 days.

　　S1: The teacher said the fact was that she had been ill for 3 days.

　　→Step 3 Grammar learning

　　1. Reading and discovering

Ask students to turn back to Page 17 to read through the play The Million Pound Bank Note, let them pick out the sentences using noun clauses as the object and the predicative, read them aloud, and then translate them into Chinese.