Learning about Language全国优秀课堂实录

Unit 1 Learning about Language Grammar

The subject Teaching aims: 1.Enable the students to know What can be used as Subject

2. Enable the students to know How to find the Subject in a sentence 3. Let the students practice and develop the students’ team spirit Teaching important point: Enable the students to find the Subject in a sentence Teaching difficult point: How to find the Subject in a sentence

Step 1

Lead-in (导入)

I met a UFA in the street yesterday 主语：

谓语：

宾语：

时间状语：

地点状语：

Step 2

What can be used as Subject? 主语（subject）可以用下面这些成分表示：名词(n.)、代词(pron.)、数词(num.)、动名词(V-ing)、不定式(to do)、从句(the clause )。

(1)名词作主语

Our school is not far from my house.

The government should lay emphasis on education.

The injured should be sent to hospital at once.

(2)代词作主语

You are a middle school student.

She lent me her new computer.

(3)数词作主语

Three is enough.

Two and two makes four.

(4)不定式作主语

To find the answer is very easy.

It’s is very easy to find the answer.

(5)动名词作主语

Smoking is not good for our health.

Seeing is believing.

Step 3

How to find the Subject in a sentence?

You can find the subject of a sentence if you can find the verb. Ask the question, “Who or what ‘verbs’ or ‘verbed’?” and the answer to that question is the subject.

Find the verb of the sentencese.g.

(1)Yao Ming is a basketball player who likes the challenge of breaking records.

(2)Thomas Edison was born in Mila, Ohio, on February 11, 1847.

(3)I

received an invitation yesterday, but I didn’t want to accept it.

(4) The Johnsons added a double

garage(车库) to their house.

(5)The jury（陪审团）returned a verdict（裁定）of

manslaughter（过失杀人）.

The subject

Step 4

Practice

Exercise 1

Match and find out what is used as their subject (1)Worrying (2) Two heads (3) Those who do not learn from history (4) To travel hopefully (5) Failing to plan (6) A man who asks

are doomed to repeat it.

is a fool for five minutes. are better than one. never did anyone any good. is planning to fail. is a better thing than to arrive. Exercise 2

1.it was a great honor……, I 62 (allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre.

2. Recent

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(study) show that we are far more ……

3. Leaving the less important things until tomorrow

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(be) often acceptable .

4. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and 49

(be) too violent for use at the table.

5.

……people eat goes up. Fast food

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(be) full of fat and salt;

6.……the road surface was replaced. Steam engines ___65__(use) to pull the carriages……

7. Later, engineers ____68___(manage) to……… , which became known to…..

8.My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school

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(come) first.

Step 5

Homework

from Page 5

( Translation- Discussion) （1）Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or back forward. （2）Some conception of a gentleman are these: a gentleman is always considerate for the feelings of others; he has tact-he knows how to say and to do the right thing at the time.

（3）To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.

（4）

The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds.

（5）

Being happy is better than being king.