Learning about Language主要内容及教案内容

Unit 5 Inside advertising Part One: Teaching Design Period 2: A lesson plan for Learning about Language (The Object Complement) Aims To help students learn about the Object Complement

To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures Procedures I. Warming up by reading some funny advertisements in English Here are some funny advertisements in English. Read them to see whether you will be amused or not. ●

Have several very old dresses from grandmother in beautiful condition.

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Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it.

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Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.

Supposedly, these are actual advertisements that have appeared in papers across the country. A superb and inexpensive restaurant. Fine food expertly served by waitresses in appetizing forms.

For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers.

Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night.

We do not tear your clothing with machinery. We do it carefully by hand.

Man, honest. Will take anything.

Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated? Come here first! Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.

3-year-old teacher need for pre-school. Experience preferred.

II. Learning how to increase your vocabulary Why do large vocabularies characterize executives and possibly outstanding men and women in other fields? The final answer seems to be that words are the instruments by means of which men and women grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the "tools of thought.”

What are the steps of increasing your vocabulary? ●Be Aware of Words

First, try to guess at a word's meaning from its context-that is, the sense of the passage in which it appears; second, if you have a dictionary on hand, look up the word's meaning immediately.

●Read

When you have become more aware of words, reading is the next important step to increasing your knowledge of words, because that is how you will find most of the words you should be learning.

What should you read?

Whatever interests you--whatever makes you want to read.

●Use a Dictionary

Have your own dictionary

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Circle the words you look up Read the entire entry for the word you look up ●Study and Review Regularly

Once you have begun looking up words and you know which ones to study, vocabulary building is simply a matter of reviewing the words regularly until you fix them in your memory.

III. Discovering useful words and expressions Doing vocabulary exercises is another way to increase your vocabulary. Now go to page 45. Do the three vocabulary exercises to build your vocabulary. IV. Understanding what the object complement is An object complement is an noun, pronoun, or adjective which follows a direct object and renames it or tells what the direct object has become. It is most often used with verbs of creating or nominating such as make, name, elect, paint, call, etc.

We know there is a difference between calling Mayor Williams and calling Williams mayor or painting a red door and painting a door red. When the word follows the direct object and it tells what the direct object has become, it is the object complement. Sometimes people call it an objective complement. The italicized words on this page are object complements.

The OBJECT COMPLEMENT DEFINITION: The OBJECT COMPLEMENT (OC) structure is one of the 7 basic sentence types. USE: The OC sentence is an important structure that we use to express common and necessary thought processes of equating direct objects with their characteristics. THE VERBS: The OC structure is used with only a few verbs, mainly verbs that express naming, thinking, or transforming in some way.

Verbs that NAME: CALL, DECLARE, ELECT, CHOOSE, APPOINT, etc. Verbs that express thought: THINK, CONSIDER, HOLD, BELIEVE, etc.

Verbs that transform: COLOR, PAINT, TURN, MAKE, etc. THE COMPLEMENTS: Objective complements are NOUNS or ADJECTIVES. THE STRUCTURE: The basic DO/OC sentence has the following structure: SUBJECT–VERB–DIRECT OBJECT–OBJECT COMPLEMENT. FAMILIAR EXAMPLES: That makes me CRAZY. Don’t ever call me CHICKEN.

We painted the town RED. That makes my day BRIGHTER. They will hold you RESPONSIBLE. SUBJECT

That

(You)

That

They

VERB

makes

do(n’t call

makes

will hold

DO

me

ever) me

my day

you

OC

crazy.

chicken.

brighter.

responsible.

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