Grammar and usage(1): Unreal conditions课件配套优秀获奖教案

Module6 Unit 3 Understanding each other Grammar and usage (1): Unreal conditionals

Teaching aims: 1. To teach students three basic unreal conditionals, mixed conditionals and omitting if. 2. To make sure students can use unreal conditionals correctly. 3. To encourage students to express their life with unreal conditionals freely.

Teaching important and difficult points: 1.To help students master and use the three basic unreal conditionals, mixed conditionals and omitting if correctly.

2. To encourage students to express their life and write a short passage with unreal conditionals freely.

Teaching media:

multimedia and blackboard

Teaching methods: individual and group work

Teaching procedures: Step one: Lead-in

Start by listening to an English song: If I Were a Boy to introduce the topic of the class - Unreal conditionals. T: After listening to the song, is the singer a boy or a girl? Can the singer be a boy? S: A girl. No. T: Therefore, the singer uses unreal conditionals in her song. But what are unreal conditionals in your opinion?

S:...

T: Unreal conditionals are used to talk about situations that are not true or not likely to become true. Step Two: Presentation of unreal conditionals (PPT) 1.

Unreal present Have students read the three sentences on the screen together and make some sentences by imitating the ones on the screen. What would you do if you were a boy/ a girl? Encourage students to summarize the structure of unreal present according to the above sentences. If clause：

If

... were (be) / did (do),

Main clause：... would / should/ could / might do Practise unreal present by filling in the blanks while listening to the song: Because I love you.

2.

Unreal future

Ask students to listen to the teacher carefully and then read them together.

Encourage students to summarize the structure of unreal future according to the sentences. If clause：

If

...

were (be) / did (do) were to do should do,

Main clause：... would / should/ could / might do Try to design a dialogue through pair work by using unreal future. 3.

Unreal past

Organize students to watch a short video Titanic and then change the sentences into unreal past. Let students read them together.

Encourage students to summarize the structure of unreal past according to the sentences. If clause：

If

...

had done,

Main clause：... would / should/ could / might have done

Ask students do individual work by translating the sentences in the video to consolidate unreal past.

4.

Mixed conditionals

After studying the three basic unreal conditionals, can you translate the sentence with mixed conditionals?

Lead students to transform some sentences into the ones with mixed conditionals and read them together.

Summary: We use mixed conditionals when the time of the main clause is different from that of the if clause.

Translate the sentences together. 5.

Omitting if

Turn several sentences with were, should and had into the ones with omitting If and read them to think about how to use omitting if.

Summary: We can put were, should and had at the beginning of an unreal conditional sentence. In this case, if is not needed.

Practice: Fill in the blanks with omitting if.

Step Three: Challenge yourself Choose one word, and finish a task. (Exercises are on the PPT.)

Step Four: Consolidation

Review the unreal conditionals we have learned in this class together. Appreciate the short article If I had the chance and encourage the students to be ambitious, hopeful and positive! Fewer unreal regrets, more real actions!

Step Five: Homework

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 writing.