Learning about Language教学设计及课堂实录

安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

Period 2

Learning about Language Text Analysis This period help will consolidate the words and expressions the students learnt in the reading part and deal with the grammar part:word formation and subject-verb agreement.Systematic explanation shall be given and some exercises shall be assigned for the students to complete to consolidate their knowledge on them.

Students Analysis

Different classes exist separate study speed and levels of students . Teaching Important Points

1.Noun suffixes in word formation.

2.Subject-verb agreement rules,especially of collective nouns.

Teaching Difficulties

1.Noun suffixes in word formation.

2.Subject-verb agreement rules,especially of collective nouns.

Teaching Method

Recognize the rules independently and practice.

Teaching Aids

1.A multi-media computer.

2.A blackboard.

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills

1.Enable the students to recognize and learn by heart the useful words and expressions learnt in the Reading part.(behave,behavior,respect,achieve,achievement,connect,connection,inspire, worthwhile,observe,observation,condition,argue,entertainment,communicate,communication etc.)

2.Enable the students to grasp some rules of word formation to enlarge their vocabulary or guess the meanings of some new words by recognizing some suffixes such as -tion,-ion,-ment,-ist,-er and -or etc.

3.Enable the students to apply the subject-verb agreement correctly.

Process and Strategies

Systematic explanation to make the students know how to apply the subject-verb agreement correctly.

Feelings and Value

Through the study of this period the students are sure to have a better understanding of the subject-verb agreement.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Revision

1.Revise the content of the reading passage by asking the students some questions.

T:Good morning,boys and girls!Last class we talked about some great women in the world,remember?

Ss:Yes.

T:If I want to become a great woman,what is most important?

Ss:You should be unselfish and willing to sacrifice and make contributions to the society.

T:Good.Yesterday we talked about one of the great women and her life.Who is the great Many hands can make fire . - 1 -

安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

woman?

Ss:Jane Goodall.

T:What did she do?

S:She protected the wildlife in Africa.

S:She studied chimps and helped people understand chimp behavior and respect the lives of chimps.

T:Right.Did she have to spend a lot of time achieving her goal?

Ss:Yes.She has been doing that for forty years.

T:With hard work,what did she discovered?

S:She discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat.

S:She discovered how chimps communicate with each other.

S:She worked out their social system with the help of their body language.

T:Wonderful job.Do you admire her?

Ss:Of course.We will all follow her example and make ourselves useful persons.

2.Check the assigned homework.

T:Yesterday,you were expected to complete the exercises independently in Discovering useful words and expressions.Have you finished?

Ss:Yes.

T:Good.Now let’s check the answers.Please turn to Page 4.Let’s have a look at exercise 2 first.

Now let’s check the answers.

(Ask some students to the blackboard to write down their answers,then ask the other students to correct.)

In the same way,check exercises 3 and 4. Step 2 Noun suffixes in word formation

1.Brainstorm word formation

T:We know that Jane Goodall has done a lot for the chimps.She has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild.That is to say,what has she made for the chimps to be left in the wild?

Ss:Arguments.She has made arguments for the chimps to be left in the wild.

T:(writes argue and argument on the blackboard and underlines -ment) Good.She did a lot and finally achieved her goal.That is to say,she made...?

Ss:She made achievements.

T:(writes achieve and achievement on the black board and underlines -ment) Good.

Now let’s have a look at the blackboard.Can you see anything in common in the two pairs of words?

S:Yes.The noun “argument” comes from the verb “argue”,adding “-ment”.The noun “achievement” comes from the verb “achieve”,adding “-ment” too.We can see “-ment” can be added to a verb to make a noun.

T:Very good.You have very keen eyes.This way to form a new word is called word formation.Here,“-ment” is called a suffix,which can be added to another word to form a new word.Do you want to know more about suffixes?

Ss:Yes.

T:OK.Today we will talk about suffixes which can make another word into a noun.We call them noun suffixes.

2.Introducing more noun suffixes.

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安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

T:Now please have a look at the screen.Here are some groups of verbs.Say their meanings,please.

(Ss say the meanings of the verbs.)

organize

determine

discuss

examine

decide

educate

direct T:Good.What about their nouns?Can you tell me?Ss:(say the nouns)

organization

determination

discussion

direction

education

decision T:What is in common among these words?

Ss:Suffix “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion” or “-ation” is added to the verb to make a noun.

T:Very good.So we can see “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion” and “-ation” are some of the noun suffixes.Do you know more suffixes?Can you give me some examples?

S:Let me have a try.If I feel bad,that is to say,I have a feeling which is bad.If the word means right,that is to say the word have the meaning which is right.So we can see,“-ing” is also a noun suffix.

T:(writes “feel”,“feeling”,“mean” and“meaning” on the blackboard and underlines “-ing”)Terrific job.Are there any other nouns with “ -ing”?

Ss:Warning,finding etc.

T:Who else will say something about other suffixes?

S:You teach us English.That is to say,you are our English teacher.“-er” is a noun suffix.

T:Good.Any more examples with “-er”?

Ss:Writer,organizer etc.

T:(writes down “-er” on the blackboard) What about other noun suffixes?

S:Thomas Edison invented the way of giving electricity.He was an inventor.“-or” is a noun suffix for a person.Another example is “sailor”from “sail”.

T:(writes down “-or” on the blackboard) Right.

S:I remember one more suffix for a person.For example,Yang Zhenning has made great contributions to the field of science.He is a scientist.“-ist” is a suffix for a person.

T:(writes down “ ist” on the blackboard) Good job.In fact we have one more suffix for a person.For example,if I interview you,you are my interviewee.“-ee”means a person too.( writes down “-ee” on the blackboard)

3.Practice

1)Check exercise 1 on Page 4.Show the table on the screen and get the students to say the answers aloud in chorus so that everyone will be aware of the suffixes.If they have any questions,give further explanation.

2)Show some more words on the screen and get the students to guess their meanings according to the rules of word formation.They should be able to tell their meanings at the first sight.Instruct them to find out the root first and then guess the meanings of the words,taking the suffixes into Many hands can make fire . - 3 -

安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

consideration.

pianist,typist,physicist,educationalist

protection,imagination,separation,education

punishment,management,statement,requirement,entertainment,payment

prisoner,adviser,lecturer,climber

4.Summary

T:Now we can see it is not really difficult to remember words as long as we master some rules.With the knowledge of word formation,we can enlarge our vocabulary.Today,we focus our attention on the Noun Suffix.In fact there are much more suffixes in English,later we will come across some of them.

Step 3

Discovering useful structures (Subject-verb agreement)

1.Brainstorm

Subject-verb agreement by giving simple examples.

T:Now watch me.What am I doing?(draws a picture on the blackboard)

Ss:You are drawing on the blackboard.

T:Yes.The teacher is drawing on the blackboard.(Writes the sentence “The teacher is drawing on the blackboard”.) What about you?What are you doing?

Ss:We are watching and listening to you.

T:(Writes the sentence “We are watching and listening to you.”)

The teacher is drawing on the blackboard.

We are watching and listening to you.

Now please have a look at these two sentences.Can we say the teacher are drawing or we is watching and listening to the teacher?

Ss:No.

T:Why?

Ss:There are some rules for us to follow when we write sentences.

T:You are right.When we write a sentence the predicate should agree with the subject,which is called subject-verb agreement.If we can not apply the rules correctly,we might not get ourselves understood.

2.Instruct the students to discover the rules for subject-verb agreement.

T:There are three main principles for us to follow.语法一致

就近一致

意义一致

Show the students some sentences and get them to complete the sentences by filling in the predicate.Get them to observe the sentences and sum up the rules.

T:Now please look at the screen and complete the sentences by filling in the blanks.

A boy _________ sitting there.(be)

Water _________ important to us.(be)

S:Both the two blanks should be filled in “is”.

T:Is he right?

Ss:Yes.

T:Now observe the sentences.Can you sum up one rule according to the two sentences?

S:Let me have a try.When the subject is a noun in single form or is an abstract noun,the predicate should be in single form.

T:Very good.

After being introduced to the rules,the students are asked to finish exercise 1 on Page 5.Here are the exercises with keys.

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安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

1.The family is (be) very big.

The family are (be) early risers.

2.This class has (have) eighteen girls and twenty-five boys.

This class are (be) very bright,especially in science subjects.

3.The government is (be) made up of six high officials.

The government were (be) having an important meeting when I got there.

4.It was late,but the audience was (be) still entering the hall.

The audience were (be) dressed in different ways.

When the students are doing the exercises,the teacher leads them to pay more attention to the second and third groups of rules.

3.Consolidation

1) Get the students to do exercises 2 on Page 5.

Dear Xiaoyu, I think everyone is (is/are) settled in London,although neither the weather nor the food is(is/are) good.Either rain or snow fell every day this week but everybody has (has/ have) tried to ignore it.My friends and my mother have(has/have) visited the theatre almost every night.None of them carries(carry/carries) an umbrella but nobody has(has/have) let that affect their activities.We are enjoying ourselves so much that I wonder if anybody wants(want/wants)to come home.This group of tourists love (love/loves) the culture and is (is/are) happy in England and would like to visit London every summer!

See you soon, Dong Xianshun 2)Divide the students into four groups and have a competition.The group that gets the most points will be the winners.

1.The whole family _________ (be)watching TV.(are)

2.Five minutes _________ (be) enough to do this exercise.( is)

3.The news _________ (be)exciting.(was/is)

4.The number of errors _________ (be)surprising.(was/ is)

5.The crowd _________ (be)running for their lives.(are)

6.Either your students or Mr.Wang _________ (know) this.(knows)

7.The police _________ the murderer everywhere when he suddenly appeared in a theatre.(B)

A.is searching for

B.were searching for

C.are searching for

D.were searching

8.The teacher,with 6 girls and 8 boys of her class, _________ visiting a museum when the earthquake struck.(A)

A.was

B.were

C.had been

D.would be

Step 4 Homework

1.Page 43 Ex 1 Choose the best answers for the blanks.

2.Page 44 Ex 2 Choose the right words and complete the short texts.

3.Surf the Internet to find as much information as possible about Lin Qiaozhi.

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安徽省利辛第一中学 Unit1 Women of achievement 高二英语组集体备课教案

finish the exercises on your exercise books.

The self-reflection and feed-back after class

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