about school activities in China and some foreign countries. If possible, the students can also be divided into several groups to get some information about high school activities in different countries as they like.
2. Before class, ask the students to go over how to use a relative pronoun properly.
教学过程
→Step 1 Greeting
While greeting, teachers can intend to use some expressions with attributive clauses. Teachers can also encourage the students to answer some everyday English with attributive clauses.
→Step 2 Revision
Check the homework and review the usage of relative pronouns. The important teaching aim of last teaching period is to know how to use a relative pronoun properly. Let the students recall the definition of a relative clause. A relative pronoun is a word used to replace a noun or a noun phrase and introduces a relative clause referring to the antecedent. The relative pronouns of English are: who, whom, whose, which, and that. After that, ask the students to finish the following exercises.
Translate the following sentences into English:
1. 站在那里的那个高个子是我的兄弟。
2. 遇到一位我上个星期见过的女士。
3. 就是与他一起工作的女孩。
4. 布鲁斯向火堆赶去, 火正在冒烟。
5. 我不喜欢她跟她母亲说话的方式。
6. 这就是几周来他们反复讨论的那个问题。
7. 同他一起工作的人都觉得他有点怪。
8. 我们必须做的是练习英语。
9. 他是我唯一想讲话的人。
10. 他们谈论他们遇见的人和事。
Suggested answers to the translation:
1. The tall man who is standing over there is my brother.
2. I have just met a lady (whom) I saw last week.
3. This is the girl with whom he worked. (whom 不可省)
4. Bruce went towards the fire, which was still smoking.
5. I don't like the way (in which/that) she talks to her mother.
6. This is the question about which they have so much discussion in the past few weeks.
7. The people with whom he worked thought he was a bit strange.
8. All that we have to do is practice English.
9. He is the only person that I want to talk with.
10. They talked about persons and things that they met.
→Step 3 Lead-in
Activity 1 Brainstorming
Let the students say anything about what they have known about school activities.