高一英语组

Grammar and usage (1)

Introduction to attributive clauses

Teacher：胡昌琴  Time: Sept 10 

Teaching Aim: Introduce attributive clause.

Teaching Important Point: The basic usage of the relative pronouns and relative adverbs

Teaching Difficult Point: How to help the Ss to learn the Attributive Clause efficiently.

Teaching Method:

Present the usage of the relative pronouns and then some exercises to consolidate what we have learned.

Teaching Aids: A projector and some slides

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Revision

Check the homework.

Step2 Presentation

Ask the Ss to look at the picture on Page8 and speak out what they may think of. After two or three students have finished, the teacher leads in to explain the Attributive Clause.

Adjective: a green team

Prepositional phrase: a team in green

Attributive clause: a team who were wearing green

An attributive clause modifies a noun in the same way as adjective or prepositional phrase does. The noun it modifies is called an antecedent.

Subject

The trees which are on the school campus have lost their leaves.

Object

The students whom we saw just now is the best runner in our school.

Predicative

Jack is no longer the lazy boy he used to be.

Attribute

She has a brother whose name I can’t remember.

Adverbial

The school where he studied is in Shenzhen.

Step3 Consolidation

T: Let’s see whether we can use them freely or not. Two friends are talking about where to go after school. Complete their conversation with relative pronouns. WB Page9.

WB Page 88 C1.

Step 4 Summary and Homework

T: In this period we’ve learned about the Attributive Clause. We know attributive clauses are related by relative pronouns and adverbs. They modify nouns or pronouns called antecedents. Then we spent quite much time in doing exercises. Today’s homework is to go through the grammar we have learned this class and try to get familiar with them. Refer to the notes when necessary.