《Learning about Language》优质课教案下载

《Learning about Language》最新教案优质课下载

To discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

I. Warming up

Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Turn to page 4 and do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. Check your answers against your classmates’.

II. Learning about grammar

1. Reading and thinking

Turn to page 2 and read the text of A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE. As you read on, pay attention to the forms of sentence predicates and the subject-verb agreement shown in the sentences.

For reference: Our group are…, Watching a family of chimps is…, Nobody before has fully understood…2. Doing exercises 1 and 2 on page 5

Turn to page 5. Look at the two sentences: Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest. And our group includes six boys and five girls. Have you noticed any difference between them? Yes. If the word “group” refers to different members, use a plural verb. If the word “group” is considered as a whole, use a singular verb. Now fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given verbs in brackets on page 5. And then go on to do Exercise 2 on the same page, that is, fill in the correct verb form in the letter.

III. Ready used materials for Subject-verb agreement

I got a hold of some bad pork chops the other day, and they didn't agree with me. Stomach aches aren't very pleasant. Don't you agree? We all know these meanings of "agree," but when we talk about subject-verb agreement, we're talking about something different: matching subjects and verbs according to number. That is, when you have a singular subject, you have to match it with a singular verb form: The boy plays. When you have a plural subject, you must have a plural verb form: The boys play.

In short, simple sentences, you should have no problem with agreement. You can hear the problem: The boys plays. When it's wrong, it just sounds funny. However, there are four potential problem spots that you need to watch carefully:

stuff in between the subject and verb

reversed sentence order

"-body," "-one," and "-thing" words

"who," "which," and "that"

Stuff in between subjects and verbs

The stuff here is usually a prepositional phrase that separates the subject from the verb. Remember how we crossed out prepositional phrases in order to find the subject? Do the same thing if you're having problems with agreement. Now, look at the following sentence and decide what's wrong with it:

The dishes in the kitchen is dirty.

Good guess! The subject and the verb don't agree. What's the probable cause for the problem? Kitchen (a singular noun) is right in front of is (a singular verb). If kitchen were the subject, that would be okay. But, it's not. Cross out the prepositional phrase and you're left with:

The dishes in the kitchen is dirty.

"The dishes . . . is dirty?" sounds wrong, doesn't it? The subject is plural, but the verb is singular. They don't agree. The correct version is:

The dishes in the kitchen are dirty.

Once you know how to look for this problem, it shouldn't be too hard to get rid of it when you proofread your paper.