Learning about Language教学目标

Learning about language (The Present Progressive Passive Voice) Teaching Aims

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To help students discover useful structures.

2. To guide students to learn about The Present Progressive Passive Voice Teaching key and difficult points

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How to make students better understand the Present Progressive Passive Voice 2.

Students can use the Present Progressive Passive Voice in their writing. Learning Procedures

Ⅰ. Learning the structure As we all know, many species are in danger, the reason for which is various. But anyway, humans play a terrible part in it. Look at pictures.

What do they do? e.g. Picture 1: People cut down trees. →

Trees are cut down. Picture 2: The villagers pollute the river. →The river …

What are they doing? e.g.

Picture 1: People are cutting down trees. →

The trees are being cut down.

Picture 2: The small boy is polluting the river. →The river …

Picture 3: The man is hunting an elephant. →The elephant …

Find out sentences with the same structure from the passage. Structures:

Present passive voice: is/ am/ are+ done

Present progressive passive voice: is/ am/ are + being done

Ⅱ. Practicing the structure Now try to put the following sentences into The Present Progressive Passive Voice.

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They are producing this new drug.

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Antelope is looking at her.

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They are killing us for the wool.

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They are destroying the farm.

To consolidate your learning of The Present Progressive Passive Voice, turn to page 29 and do the grammar exercises 2 and 3.

III. Studying Passive Voice using different tenses Now let’s look at more sentences with passive voice. e.g. Fords are made in Cologne. (Present Simple) Dinner is being cooked by Susan (Present Continuous)

Dubliners was written by James Joyce. (Past Simple)

The house was being painted when I arrived. (Past Continuous)

Over 20 models have been produced in the past two years. (Present Perfect) A new factory is going to be built in Portland. (Future simple with be going to)

It will be finished tomorrow. (Future Simple)

Make a conclusion about the past verb formation

一般现在时：am/is/are+p.p 一般过去时：was/were+p.p 现在进行时：am/is/are being+p.p 过去进行时：was/were being +p.p 现在完成时：have/has been+p.p 过去完成时：had been+p.p 一般将来时：will/shall be +p.p Exercise: 1）用被动语态的适当形式填空:

____________(plant) now.

____________(plant) every spring.

____________(plant) last spring.

____________(plant) next spring. A lot of trees

____________(plant) this time yesterday.

_____________(plant) since ten years ago.

_____________(plant) by the end of 2000. Our neighbour said a lot of trees _________(plant) the next spring.

2）用动词的适当形式填空: 1.Don’t worry about her. She ___________ (meet) by her friends as soon as she arrives. 2.He____________________ (operate) on twice for that disease.

3.The news ________________(talk) about everywhere. 4.English ______________(teach) here in China for over a century. 5.A lot of tall buildings _____________(set) up, and people will move in sometime next year. IV. Closing down by playing a game

To end this period, we’ll make a dialogue about wildlife protection. Use sentences containing The Present Progressive Passive Voice and other tenses.

Useful expressions: What has been done? reported that…

What is being done?

In one’s opinion…

According to…

What will be done?

As far as I know…

in the past 10 years

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Ⅴ. Homework Review Present Progressive Passive Voice Pre- view the reading passages on P30 & 65.

I believe…

It is said/