"Last year I studied abroad in Goettingen, Germany, which was definetly the best college experience a student could ever ask for. Not only are you learing about yourself, and the country you are visiting, but at the same time learning significantly about your home country. You learn about how other countries around the world view your country and you get the chance to act as a laison for the US and tell others how Americans and America really is. Studying abroad is the best experience ever and everyone should take advantage of it!!" - Dahlia Krausse 2. Reading aloud the text and doing the exercises

Now go to page 38 to read aloud the text again. By reading aloud students can:

● continue to associate reading with warm, pleasant feelings;

● learn about words and language; build listening skills; expand vocabularies;

● talk about the characters, settings, and plot and relate them to their own lives;

● gain knowledge about a variety of topics;

● explore social and moral issues and behaviors;

● become more skilled independent readers;

● be motivated to read on their own;

● discover which authors and writing styles they like.

● establish a lifelong commitment to reading.

　　Now go on to do exercises on page 40, one by one. Just do them on the page.

3. Learning about non-restrictive clauses and doing related exercises

A non-essential clause or phrase adds additional, probably important, information, about an already specified person or thing, or about an entire class of people or things (ALL).

　　A non-essential or non-restrictive clause is separated from the noun it modifies and from the rest of the sentence by commas, dashes, or parentheses.

　　Now go on to do exercises on page 41, one by one. Just do them on the page.

复习非限制性定语从句

一、关系代词 as, which

二者都可以引导非限制性定语从句。指主句的全部内容，其中as可放在句首也可置于句末；而which只能跟在主句后面。

As is known to all, the US is made up of 50 states.众所周知，美国是由五十个州组成的。

Tom has passed the examination, which made his parents very happy.

汤姆已经通过了考试，这使的他的父母非常高兴。

二、非限制性定语从句中应注意的几个问题：

1. 在选择关系词时，注意标点符号会影响句子的结构。

Yesterday I got a letter from Lily, ____said that she was getting along well with her studies.

A. who B. whom C. which D. it

Yesterday I got a letter from Lily. ____said that she was getting along well with her studies.

A. Who B. Whom C. Which D. It

句横线前用了逗号，说明前后是一个句子的两个部分。根据句意判断出逗号后为定语从句。因此1句答案应为C. which 。而2 句用的是句号，说明其前后是两个完整的句子，空格中应填入能作主语的、代替a letter的人称代词，因此2句答案应为 D. It

2. 非限制性定语从句的关系代词which或whom前可以有(all, any, both, few, enough, many,

most, several, none, some, 数词、名词等) +of 形式。

He wrote a book, the name of which I've completely forgotten. 他写了一本书，书名我全忘了。

It's a family of eight people, all of whom love music.这是一个八口之家，都喜爱音乐。

There are fifty students in the class, sixty percent of whom are boys.这个班有五十个学生，其中百分之六十是男生。

3. 注意as, which在非限制性定语从句中的区别用法:

1）都可在主系表结构和主谓结构中作主语，两者可替换。

The street was blocked, as/which often happens in rush hours. 街道堵啦，高峰时经常这样。

2） as有"正如"之意，而which没有

She is beautiful, as are all her sisters.她很美，就像她的所有姐妹一样。

3） 用作主谓宾或主谓宾补结构的主语时，用which不用as。

He bullied my sister, which annoyed me very much.他欺侮我妹妹，这使我很恼火。

4）从句为否定句或有否定前缀时，不用as而用which.

She has married again, which was unexpected.她又结婚了，这是人们没有料到的。

5）关系代词前有（短语）介词时，只能用which不用as.

He might be still in bed, in which case we can go without him. 他可能还睡着呢，既然如此我们就自己去吧。