Period 2 Learning about Language
The General Idea of This Period:
This period is about the useful words,expressions and structures learned in reading part,from the exercises in this period,the students can consolidate what they learnt in reading part,and learn the grammar about the attributive clauses.
Teaching Aims:
1.Learn some key words:
trial,consider,prove,tell the truth,pretend,think highly of,besides
2.Learn some important sentence structures:
I think highly of those who are searching for the Amber Room.
Besides,my father once told me that any person who finds something could keep it.
I must say that I agree with you.
I must say that I don’t agree with you.
3.Help the students learn how to use the attributive clauses.
4.Enable the students to learn how to make judgments and give their opinions.
Teaching Important Point:
Learn how to use the attributive clauses with that/which/who/where/when.
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to tell the attributive clauses with that/which/who/where/when/from other clauses.
Teaching Methods:
Asking-and-answering activity to check the students’ answers of the exercises;individual,pair or group work to finish each task.
Teaching Aids:
A multi-media computer and a blackboard.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
1.Greetings.
2.Ask some students to retell the text they learnt in the reading part.
Step 2 Useful words and expressions
T:From the reading part,we can find some useful words and expressions.So now please find the words and expressions that means each of the following.(Ex1 on Page 3)
After two minutes,the teacher begins to check the answers and give the right answers:
1.rare 2.vase 3.in return 4.in search of 5.belong to 6.heat 7.remain 8.gift
9.doubt 10.remove
T:Look at the dictionary entry for the phrasal verb “belong to”,and match the meanings with the sentences in the right box.belong to phr.v[T]
1.to be the property of:That coat belongs to me.
2.to be a part of;be connected with:That top belongs to this box.
3.to be a member of:He belongs to a large family.
Warning “belong” is not used in the continuous tense or the passive voice.
e.g.The computer is belonging to my sister.(Wrong)
The computer is belonged to my sister.(Wrong)
The computer belongs to my sister.(Right)
The students begin to prepare this exercise.After two minutes,the teacher begins to check the answers:
A 3,B 1,C 3,D 2
T:Now Let’s come to Ex.3.The preposition at sometimes indicates a state,condition or continuous activity.Look at the sentences of Ex.3 and try to express each of them in another way.
After several minutes,the teacher gives the right answers.
Suggested answers
1.This was a time when the two countries were fighting against each other.
2.She was working in the garden all this morning.
3.Children who are playing often make a lot of noise.
4.When we called,the family were having dinner.
5.What are they doing now They are having their meal.
Step 3 Discovering useful structures
T:Let’s come to discovering useful structures,please finish all the exercises in this part.
After five minutes,the teacher checks the answers:(Ss answer the questions one by one.)
Suggested answers to Ex 1:
1.A cultural relic is something that has survived from a long time ago,often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has decayed or been destroyed.P1
2.It is your job to look into any reports of cultural relics that have been found in China.P1
3.You are sent to a small town where you find a relic that was stolen from a place.P1
4.This gift was the Amber Room,which was given this name because almost seven thousand tons of ambers were used to make it.P1
5.Later,Catherine Ⅱ had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers.P2
6.This was a time when the two countries were at war.P2
7.In 1770,the room was completed the way (that)she wanted it.P2
Suggested answers to Ex 2:
1.Here are the farmers who/that discovered the underground city last month.
2.Xi’an is one of the few cities with walls whose walls/the walls of which remain as good as before.
3.Shanxi Province is a place with cultural relics whose relics are well looked after.
4.The woman remembered the day when she saw Nazis burying something near her home.
5.The old man (who(m)/that) you are talking to saw some Germans taking apart the Amber Room and moving it away.
Suggested answers to Ex 3:
1.St Petersberg is a very beautiful city,which was once called Leningrad.
2.In Xi’an,I met a teacher,who has a strong love for cultural relics and took me to visit the history museum.
3.I don’t remember the soldier,who told me not to tell anyone what I had seen.
4.My grandfather was a child then,when people didn’t pay as much attention to cultural relics in the old days.
5.They moved the boxes to a mine,where they wanted to hide them.
Step 4 Homework
1.Finish the related exercises on Workbook.
2.Prepare for the next class.
3.Finish some exercises about the attributive clauses.
Step 5 The Design of the Writing on the
Blackboard
Unit 1 Culture relicsPeriod 2关联词语法功能关系代词whowhomwhomwhosethataswhenwherewhy
Step 6 Record after Teaching