高一英语公开课教案

张叶        2008-9-9

Grammar and usage (1)

Teaching aims:  

1. Enable students to learn what an attributive clause is.

2. Help students learn how to identify and write attributive clause and get them to know some more usages of relative pronouns.

Teaching important and difficult points:

The basic usage of the relative pronouns and learn to use them in different situations.

Teaching methods:

Discussion in pairs or groups.

Task-based in-class activities.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Revision and lead-in

1.      Check the homework.

2.      Revision

1) Members of sentence:

Subject 主语

Predicate 谓语

Predicative 表语

Object 宾语

Attribute 定语

Adverbial 状语

2) Simple sentences (简单句)

¡ S+V (主语+谓语)

    Eddie is sleeping.

  S+V+DO (主语+谓语+宾语)

     I like sports.

¡ S+V+P (主语+系动词+表语)

     The report is true.

¡ S+V+IO+DO (主+谓+间接宾语+直接宾语)

     I’ll give you a recent photo.

¡ S+V+DO+OC (主+谓+宾+宾语补足语)

     The teachers consider Jim a good student.

3) Compound sentences (并列句）

并列句是由两个或两个以上的简单句通过并列连词而连接在一起构成，如and, but, yet, while, or, not only…but (also), …

Hurry up, or you’ll be late.

In spring trees turn green and flowers come out.

Not only the young like the film but (also) the old enjoy seeing it.

4) Complex sentences (复合句）

复合句是由一个主句和一个或几个从句构成，主句是主体，可以独立成句；从句仅充当主句的一个成分。根据从句在句中不同的作用，从句可分为名词性从句、定语从句和状语从句。如：

I propose that they stay here.

A doctor is a person who looks after people’s health.

We didn’t go to bed until we finished our homework.

Step 2 Introduction of attributive clause

Compare the following phrases and find what the three red parts have in common.

the green team   (adjective)

the team in green  (preposition phrase)

the team who were wearing green   (attributive clause)

1.      Definition： An attributive clause is a clause that modifies(修饰) a noun the same way an adjective or prepositional phrase does. The noun it modifies is called an antecedent (先行词). 

2.      Usage and examples (on the powerpoint)

As subject

The boy is Tom.  The boy is smiling.

        The boy who is smiling is Tom.

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

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

Where is the cheese? It was in the fridge.

        Where is the cheese that was in the fridge?

As object

The man is kind.  Everyone likes him.

      The man (who) everyone likes is kind.

The woman got the job.  We saw her in the street.

      The woman (whom) we saw in the street got the job.

Have you found the keys? You lost the keys.

      Have you found the keys (that) you lost?

I slept in the bed last night. The bed wasn’t very comfortable.

      The bed (which) I slept in last night wasn’t very comfortable

As predicative

Jack used to be a lazy boy. He is no longer a lazy boy.

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

As attributive

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

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

3. Summary: relative pronouns:

People: who / that / whom 

 Things: that / which  

 Whose

The man -- he lives next door -- is friendly.

The man who /that lives next door is friendly. (subject)

The student – we saw him just now –--- is the best runner of our school.

The student that /whom we saw just now is the best runner of our school.  (object)

The trees ---– they lost their leaves –- are on the school campus.

The trees which / that lost their leaves are on the school campus.  (subject)

China is no longer a weak nation ---- it used to be a weak nation.

China is no longer a weak nation that it used to be. (predicative)

The girl – her hair is red – is singing.

The girl whose hair is red is singing. (attribute)

3.      Practice

1) The secrete __that/which_ can’t be told is the first film _that_is directed by Jay Chou.  

2) Liu Xiang _whom_ Yao Min sat with said both Yao and he hoped to light the Olympic torch.

3) Chen Chusheng is no longer the bar singer _that__ he used to be.

4) The Russian singer _whose__ voice is much higher than normal people is called Vitas.

5) The National Stadium _where__ the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be held looks like a bird nest.

Step 3 Homework

1. Do Exercise on P88 C1 /P89 D1

2. Preview Relative pronouns on P10