Learning about Language板书设计及设计说明

Unit 1

Cultural Relics Period 2

Learning about Language

The Grammar The Restrictive and Non-restrictive Attributive Clause

Teaching analysis

This period mainly introduces non-restrictive attributive clause and the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. The students have already learnt restrictive clause before, which can lay a foundation for learning and mastering the contents of this class.

As we all know, grammar is always considered boring and difficult to teach and learn, so I will try to transfer the traditional teacher-centered approach to student-centered approach, combine teaching with pleasure, and motivate the students to discover and solve the problems themselves. And then they can learn and master this new grammatical structure in pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.

Teaching goals

1.Compare and master the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses, esp. the use of “which”﹠

“that”. 2.Enable students to choose the proper relatives. 3.Improve students’

ability of speaking and writing using attributive clause. Teaching important and difficult points

1.The comparison between the restrictive and non-restrictive clauses

2.Get the students to use the restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses properly to describe some things and persons. 3.Get students to master this new grammatical structure 4.Improve students’

ability of speaking and writing using attributive clause Teaching methods

1.Inquiry-based and Student-centered Teaching Approach 2.Cooperative and Inductive Methods 3.Multimedia Computer Assisted Instruction

Teaching aids

A computer and some slide shows Teaching procedures

Step Ⅰ

Lead-in

First, I design a short introduction of myself using some attributive clauses, and show some pictures at the same time. I think this can arouse the students’

interest and draw their attention to the teaching contents.

I will say: Today, I will lead you to discuss the grammar of this unit: The non-restrictive attributive clause. First, let me introduce myself to you. I’m Roseblany

who will give you this lesson. I’m a teacher who comes from No. 1 Middle School. I am teaching in the new campus which was built last year.

The campus is completely new, where about 4,000 students live and study happily.

There are many beautiful flowers which smell sweet in summer. Welcome to visit the new campus of our school, where I believe you can make many friends. Then, I will show the sentences I said on the screen, and ask the students to find some different ones from what they have learnt. The students can easily find 1, 4, 6 are different, and they all have a comma. I will tell them this kind of attributive clause with a comma is called the non-restrictive attributive clause. Of course they know the comma is not the only difference between them. So I will lead them to compare some pairs of sentences to find other differences. Step Ⅱ

Comparison and Induction In this part, I will give the students some groups of sentences, and raise some questions to help them find out the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. Ask the students discuss the questions with partners or in small group, 1 or 2 minutes later, ask one or two students to report the result of their discussion, and then I will do some complements and make a summary. 1) This is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen.

2) This is the most beautiful girl in No.6 middle school, whom I saw in Class 1.

1) Hangzhou is a city (that／which) I’ve always wanted to visit.

2) Hangzhou is a beautiful city, which I’ve always wanted to visit. 1）The teacher showed us a photo which she took in her office. 老师给我们看了一张她在办公室拍的照片。

2)

The teacher showed us this photo, which she took in her office. 老师给我们看了这张照片，是在她的办公室拍的。

1) He will wear no clothes which will make him different from others.

他不会穿一些使他显得与众不同的衣服。

2) He will wear no clothes, which makes him different from others.

他不穿衣服，这会使他显得与众不同。

My father is a man whom you can depend on .我爸爸是一个你可以信赖的人。

2) My father, who is now on visit to Hangzhou, phoned us yesterday. 我爸爸昨天给我们打电话了，他现在正在杭州访问。

(Design explanation: This step is designed to let students themselves read and compare the two kinds of attributive clauses through individual work, pair work and group discussion. In this process, they can find the differences between them in form, function and meaning. The teacher only acts as an instructor and organizer. ) Step Ⅲ

Summary Ask a student to fill in the form---the comparison between restrictive and

non restrictive clause. And then ask them think about the similarities of them.

(They use the same relatives)

(Design explanation: Summarizing can let the students have a clear and systematical understanding about the differences and similarities between the restrictive and non-restrictive clauses, and lay the foundation for doing the following exercises.)

Step Ⅳ

Exercises Before doing exercises, I will show some tips for how to choose the relatives correctly. Then, I design three parts of exercises: Part 1 Try some easy ones first: Find out the mistake of each sentence and correct it. Part 2 A little bit more difficult ones: Fill in the blanks with proper relatives, and then join the two sentences with proper relatives. Part 3 Guessing game: It’s a show time for the students. I will divide the students into 6 groups, give each group a piece of paper, and ask the students describe the thing or the person on the paper, using 2 or 3 restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. And then read the sentences they write and let other groups guess what or who they describe. I will give them an example, and then give them about 3 minutes to prepare. These 6 pictures are: Zhou Jielun, eyes, computer, No.6 middle school, schoolbag

and washing-machine.

(Design explanation: This step plays an important role in this class, which is designed to turn what they have learnt into practice and improve their ability of speaking, meanwhile, to build up the students’

confidence and cooperative spirit.) Step Ⅵ

Homework (I will never forget to give them the homework to consolidate what they learn in class and at the same time improve their writing ability.) Describe something or somebody you like using restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses within 50 words.