Learning about Language教学设计案例

Period 4:

Learning about Language

(The Present Perfect Passive Voice)

Aims

To learn to useThe Present Perfect Passive Voice

To discover useful structures

Procedures

I. Warming up by reading to the tape

To begin with, turn to page 18, listening to and reading to the recording of the text WHO AM I? Attention goes to the pauses and intonation, as well as the pronunciation of the reader. Meanwhile,

please pay attention to the useful structures.

1

... my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information ....

2

I have truly been built to serve the human race ....

III. Learning about grammar

1. Passive Voice—Overview

Tense or Model Passive Sentence

Simple Present

The TOEFL exam is given every six months.

Simple past The TOEFL exam was given last month.

Simple Future The TOEFL exam this year will be given on October15.

Present Continuous The TOEFL exam is being given every year.

Present perfect The TOEFL exam has been given every year since 1950.

Past perfect The TOEFL exam had been given before the Vietnam War occurred.

Simple Modal

The TOEFL exam should be given to every Foreign student.

Past Modal The TOEFL exam should have been given to all to enter US colleges.

2. The Present Perfect Passive Voice

The structure of The Present Perfect Passive Voice is:

have/ has ＋

been＋~ed

IV. Reading aloud and discovering

Now go back to page 18 to read aloud and discover in the text examples of The Present Perfect Passive Voice.

As the years have gone by, I have been made smaller and smaller.

Since then, my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information with each other around the world by the Internet.

V. Discovering useful structure

We shall do grammar exercises on the PPT.

VI. Closing down by doing a quiz

Correct the mistakes in these passive voice sentences

Example: The house was build in 1880. (correct = The house was built in 1880.)

1. 3000 employees were laying off.

2. A story will made up.

3. An idea was putted forward for discussion.

4. Has the book been give back to you yet?

5. My bank loan will be payed off in five years time.

6. Nothing can be hold against me.

7. Our allies will be lend support.

8. She has never heard of.

9. She was being knocked down by a bus.

10. She was letted off with a fine.

11. The candle was blow out by the draught.

12. The criminal were locked up.

13. The flood water was be kept back by barriers.

14. The inconvenience will made up for by this money.

15. The keys must have been being left behind.

16. The old cinema is being pull down.

17. The protesters being held back by the police.

18. The road was blocking off.

19. Thirty more people were laid off last week.

20. Your jacket can be hanged up over there.