Learning about Language课堂实录【1】

V-ing form as subject and object Teaching goals

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Target language

Students will be able to

a. master some words and expressions in the text, like sunburnt, hunger, expand, circulate, struggle, export, output, satisfied, strain, rid ... of, lead a ... life, would rather, thanks to b. know how to use the v-ing form as subject and object. 2. Ability goals

Students will be able to master the usage of the words and expressions above and use the -ing form as subject and object correctly and freely.

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Learning ability goals

Students will be able to

learn how to use the words and expressions freely to express their ideas and use the v-ing form as subject and object.

Teaching important points

The usage of the important words and the -ing form used as subject and object. Teaching difficult points

How to use the words and expressions and the -ing form freely. Teaching methods

Explaining, discussing and practising. Teaching aids

A projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways Step I

Greeting and revision Step II

Word study and do some exercises

Sunburnt, strain, output, export, rid ... of, would rather, increase,

satisfied, super, lead ... a life, thanks to, struggle l. With the development of science and technology China is ________many kinds of electric products to developing countries.

2.Yao Ming plays basketball in NBA and he is a _________ basketball star. 3. __________bad weather, our football match has to be put off. 4. Now the old couple ___________ simple but happy _________in the countryside. 5. Judging from his _______ face and arms, he works in the open air. 6. I'm very tired. I _______ have a good sleep than go to the cinema. 7. The __________ of corn this year is double that of last year. 8. We ________wheat to Russia and import silk from Japan. 9. The baseball league _________ by adding four new terms. 10. The people to get out of the burning building. A few minutes later, the teacher may ask some students to read out their answers and give the Chinese meaning of each sentence. The teacher corrects any mistake and gives some explanations. Answers to the sentences: 1. exporting

2. super

3. thank to

4. is leading a ... life 5. sunburnt

6. would rather

7. output 8. export

9. was strained 10. struggled T: Well, now let's turn to Page 11 and finish the Ex 1, 2 and 3. Now let's check the answers. Check the answers and give them some explanations.

Step III

Grammar There are two tasks in this step. One is to do some explanations about the structure; the other is to do some exercises in the Discovering useful structures in Page 12. Task l The following sentences are from the text A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE. There are some useful structures in them. Let students translate them and pay attention to these

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boldface words. 1...., He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life. P10 2. He also doesn't care about being famous.

P10 3. His other hobbies include playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. P10 4. Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.

P10 T: Well done. Now, please pay attention to the boldface part in each sentence and find out the function of them. Who'd like to explain the function of these underlined parts? S1: Let me have a try. It's clear that the -ing form in the first and second sentences is used as object of preposition. And in the third sentence the -ing form is used as object. In the last one the -ing form is used as subject. So we can say the -ing form can be used as subject and object like nouns.

T: Quite right. That's the usage of the -ing form. In grammar the -ing form used like this has another name called the gerund. That is to say, it can be used as subject and object like nouns. But please pay attention. We seldom use "it" to replace the -ing form as subject. Ok. Now let's do some practice. Look at another three examples on the screen. Please complete the sentences with the given words in proper forms. 1. Fancy Mary ______(do) a thing like that! 2. _____(take) physical exercise every day is profitable to our health. 3. That is a matter of importance, it wants_______ (handle) carefully. 4.Her not _______(come back) made us disappointed.

5.1 must apologize for _____-(not let) you know ahead of time.

6. M.r Brown regretted _______(beat) his son. Ask one student to do it. Correct mistakes if there is any and do some explanations at the same time. Suggested answers: 1. doing

2. Taking

3. handling

4. coming back 5. not letting

6. beating T: By the way, I'd like to do some further explanations. It is not always easy to decide when the gerund should be used after a given verb as the object. This is a matter of general usage. As we know some verbs and phrasal verbs usually take a gerund after them. Do you know what they are? S2: Let me see. Such words as advise, avoid, cannot help, consider, enjoy, escape, excuse, finish, give up, keep from, leave off, miss, practise, stop, suggest, etc. usually plus gerunds after them ... T: There are other words such as acknowledge, deny, admit, postphone, resist, fancy, put off, etc. are often followed by gerunds. Here are some examples. e.g. I can not postphone answering his letter. He narrowly missed being killed. Task 2 T: Let's continue to do some exercises. Please look at Page 12. Please do Ex 2. You are asked to rewrite the following sentences using the -ing form as the subject. Ask some students to do them one by one. Keys to Exercise 2: Helping people in need of help is nice. Growing super hybrid rice is not easy. Learning more about fanning is not difficult. Doing research in the countryside is not as easy as in the city. Getting rid of hunger is very important in some African countries. 6. Explaining this again is important or we will get confused. T: Well done!

Why not go on with Exercise 3. This time join the two halves to make sentences. Keys to Exercise 3:

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1. Dr Yuan likes talking to rice growers about his work. 2. He continued doing research until a better strain of rice was found. 3. Many city kids look forward to visiting the countryside. 4. Not all students enjoy working in the fields. 5. They started producing hybrid rice in 1974. 6.1 remember meeting the scientist while he was in Beijing last time.

T: Good! Now, please finish Ex 4 in Page 13. Use the following phrases with the -ing form to describe a person you admire. Teacher can give students four minutes to write a short passage by themselves and then ask one or two students to give their answers. T: Ready? Who's willing to read his or her passage? S1: The person I admire is my uncle. As a young man, he dreamt of becoming a scientist. He was good at all his subjects at school. But when he saw the need for doctors in the poor countryside, he decided to devote himself to looking after sick people. After graduating from Shanxi Medicine University, he became a doctor in our hometown. He cares little about making money. He is interested in helping poor people. When some poor villagers come for help, he seldom asks them for charge. He even offers some money to them. He is never afraid of becoming poor. He is only concerned about people's health. T: Very nice, thank you. OK, after class you can exchange your passages with each other and enjoy what your partners have written. Today we reviewed some important words and phrases. Please remember them after class. And we also learned about the -ing form used as the subject and object. Try to do some practice so that you can master the usage of the -ing form. As for Exercise 5. If time permits, you can ask students to do it in class, If not, you can ask them to do it as homework after class. T: Now, let's play a game called "What were you doing when the flood came?" That is, imagine when the food came what you were doing. You can tell an experience in a flood or you can imagine one. Please work in groups of four and take turns to describe an activity. Be sure to use the -ing form of the verb. Two minutes later, be prepared to tell your ideas to the class. T: Which group would like to tell their ideas first? S1: I was helping my parents get in the rice in the field when the flood came. I ran as fast as possible to the softy.

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S3: I was reading a novel at home when the flood came. So I had to climb up a tree. S4. I was riding my bike to the market to buy some fertilizer when the flood came. T: Excellent!

Another group ... Teacher can ask two or three groups of students to tell their ideas. Teacher can ask the rest of students to exchange their ideas after class. The introductions about V-ing in the reference book are very good, teacher can add them to this step.

Step IV

Using Structures T: Now please turn to Page 50 and finish Exercise 1 quickly. I'll give you 2 minutes to do this.

Check their answers with the whole class. T: Well, Now I'd given you some time to do it, according to the instructions in Exercise 2. Please try to use the structures we learned today. Now work in pairs or groups to finish this task. Sample 1.1 hate chatting in QQ, because I find it really boring. After chatting, you will find that you gain nothing except boredom. It's dangerous when a person is tripped in it. One of my

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neighbours left his wife and child, and sold his house to meet his QQ girl friend. But half year later, he came back empty-handed. What a shame! 2. I'm interested in teaching. Though the job can't bring me much money, I think what I do will bring children wise or intelligence. 3. I'll enjoy visiting Taiwan. Because it is reported in news papers that People in Taiwan are those who are the most filial. People in Hong Kong are the second, and people in the mainland are the third. I want to go there and find what makes people there so filial. And it reminds me a Chinese poem. I can't help reading it out for you.

Step V Homework T: Next time we'll learn Organic Farming on Page 13 and An Early Farmer Pioneer on Page 51. If possible, please find some information about them. Today's homework is to finish all Exercises on Page 49. That's all for today. See you next time.

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