Grammar and usage(1): Unreal conditions and things hoped for or desire教学设计及教案分析

Grammar and usage: Unreal conditionals（虚拟条件句）

No16 Senior High School of Yi Yang: Huangyan

Teaching Aims: To make the students grasp the subjunctive mood and the rules of it. Enable the students to finish the exercises correctly after learning it. Teaching Important＆Difficult point: How to get the students to learn about the usage of the unreal conditionals by finishing some tasks. Teaching Method: Task-based teaching, individual and cooperative learning and practice. Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Lead-in Show a song including the unreal conditionals and fill in the blanks by listening to the music. If I only ____ one match left 如果我只剩下一根火柴

I ________to light it between us 我会在我们之间点燃一簇火苗

If we only _____ with our minds 如果我们只能用思想来交流

I ______________you in the eye 我再也不会用眼神来交流

'Cause I think I might have heard something You told me even if you didn't try Step 2: Mind map Show the mind map of the subjunctive mood and tell the teaching tasks in this class. Step 3:Presentation Ⅰ. Unreal present----对现在的虚拟

Example: ❶If he were a bird, he would fly in the sky. ❷If Bajie married the girl now, he would/could/might/should feel

very happy. Practice: ❶If________________, I would use it to help people in need. ❷If today were Sunday, I ____________________________________. ❸If______________, I would set a good example to my students. Summary: If Clause Main Clause

Activity 1:

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As students, we have piles of homework to do every day, feeling tired. So if you were an adult or a teacher, what would you do? ----If I were the teacher/my mother…，

I would …

Ⅱ. Unreal future 对将来的虚拟

Example: ❶If I became the headmaster tomorrow, I would give you two days a week to get relaxed. ❷If I were to have time, I would go to see him next year. Summary: If Clause Main Clause

Activity 2: Make up a short dialogue. A: What would you like to be in the future? B: I would like to be …

A: What would you do first if you… tomorrow?

B: If I …

Ⅲ. Unreal past 对过去的虚拟

Example: The ship sank on its first voyage. About 1500 people lost their lives at that time. ----If the ship

hadn't sunk

on its first voyage, 1500 people

wouldn't have lost their lives at that time.

Practice: ❶ The captain of the ship was too confident and too proud. ----If the captain of the ship __________(be) too confident and too proud, the ship _________________(sink) on its first voyage. ❷ The watchman was too careless.

----If the watchman __________ (be) too careless, the ship ___________________(strike) an iceberg. ❸The ship struck an iceberg. ----If the ship ____________(strike) an iceberg, 1500 people _________________(die) at that time. Summary:

If Clause Main Clause

Activity 3: Translation ❶Rose, 如果我没有赢得船票，我就不会登上船(go on board)。 ❷如果我没有登上船，我就不会遇上你。 ❸I never regret loving you!

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Summary: Unreal situations Unreal Present Unreal Past Unreal Future Ⅳ. Mixed conditionals (混合虚拟条件句) Example: ----Rose Dewitt Bukater died on the Titanic when she was 17, right? ----That’s right.

---- If she ________(live), she ___________(be) over100 by now. ---- 101 next month. Practice: ❶. My father forced me to practice a lot then. That’s why I play table tennis well now. =If my father ____________ me to practice a lot, I ____________ table tennis well now. ❷My father was very strict with me then. That’s why I’m successful now. =If my father ___________________ with me then, I ______________________ now. ❸Mum always encouraged me then. That’s why I play table tennis so well now. =If mum _____________________then, I _____________________________now. Summary: We use mixed conditionals when the time of the main clause is different from that of the if clause. Ⅴ. Omitting if (省略if) 1. If I were a boy, I would be a better man. = ______________ , I would be a better man. 2. If I should become the headmaster tomorrow, I would give you two days a week to get relaxed. = ________________ the headmaster tomorrow, I would give you two days a week to get relaxed. 3. If Jack had

missed the ship, he wouldn’t have met Rose.

= _______________ the ship, he wouldn't have met Rose.

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If Clause

Main Clause

Summary: We can put _______, _______ and _____ at the beginning of an unreal conditional sentence. In this case, if is not needed. Step 3 Consolidation Activity 4: Make sentences by using Subjunctive Mood.When you hear the first sentence, you make a sentence after the second half of the first sentence. Example:

S1: If I were Yao Ming, I would play basketball well. S2: If I played basketball well, I would have a lot of money. S3: If I had a lot of money, I would travel around the world.

S4: ………

Activity 5: Challenge yourself: Choose one picture, and finish a task. Step 5:Summary

1. unreal present 2. unreal past 3. unreal future 4. mixed conditionals 5. omitting “if”

Step 4: Homework Writing: Li Hua is absorbed in playing computer games, which is bad for his study and health. His parents are quite worried. As his best friend, what would you tell him?You must use unreal

conditionals in your sentences.

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