Learning about Language教案1

Unit 3 Inventors and Inventions

learning about language

Teaching Goals:

1.To get Ss to have knowledge of this grammar point: the past participle used as attribute, predicative and object complement. 2.

To enable Ss to know the differences between the past participle and v–ing form

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Presentation

Introduce information about some inventions and discoveries using sentences in passive participle. Guide Ss to say the words which are highlighted .Show some related pictures. 1.

This is the telephone designed in the early time.

2.

Stephenson’s

“Rocket” was the engine designed for the railways by George Stephenson

3.

The structure of DNA was a discovery of Francis Crick and James Watson published in 1953.

4.

The colour television invented in 1940 made our life more colorful.

5.

I was excited at the new invention.

6.

His new invention made all of us surprised.

Step 2. Individual work

Get Ss to find out the past participle used as attribute, predicative and object complement in the reading text.

Part1 Line 1: When I called up my mother in the countryside on the telephone she was very

upset. Part2 Line 1: The first thing I tried to do was to see if there were Products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.. Part4 Line 1: I placed the frozen bowl over the snakes habitat and the ice-cubes on top of the

bowl from the machine. Part6 Line 1: The next morning I carried in my hand a small net used for catching fish.

Step 3. Grammar point

Purpose: To get Ss to know about the past participle.

1. Get Ss to complete the sentences and know about the past participle (1)

The (.破损的碗)will be thrown at once..= The bottle which was broken will be will be

thrown at once.. (2)

The books_ last week (上周买的书

)are of high quality. = the books which were bought yesterday are of high quality.。

I’m interested in reading novels

by luxun (.鲁迅写的). (3)

(污染的)air and water are harmful to people’s health. （在会议上讨论的）yesterday was very difficult to solve. _ (很兴奋)when he heard he had won the first place in the English –spoken (4)

The problem (5)

He contest. (7) He found (他的家乡变了很多)(8) What made (在会上讨论). (一大笔钱浪费掉). (这只狗这样害怕)? (9)

He won’t like such questions (10)

The manager won`t want Suggested Answers:

(1)

broken bowl

(2)

bought

(3)

written.

(4)

Polluted

(5)

discussed at the meeting

(6)

became excited_

(7)

his hometown greatly changed(8) the dog so frightened

(9)

discussed at the meeting

(10)

a lot of money wasted

2. Explain the grammar point for Ss.

(1) 过去分词做定语：表示分词动作与所修饰的名词之间存在被动关系。单一的过去分词做

定语一般防在被修饰的名词之前；过去分词短语做定语放在被修饰的名词之后，过去分

词及过去分词短语做定语均可以转换为一个定语从句。

(2) 过去分词作表语：

过去分词做表语，表示主语的状态，且该状态通常是由外界因素引起的。这时过去分词

可以被看作一个形容词，是形容词化的过去分词

(3) 过去分词作宾语补足语：

做宾语补足语的过去分词一般是及物动词，和宾语有逻辑上的主谓关系。可以带过去分

词做宾语补足语的动词有：

①

see, hear, watch, feel, think, find 等表示感觉和心理状态的动词。

②

make, get, have ,help, leave 等表示“致使”意义的动词。

③

like, want, wish, order 等表示“希望，要求”

等意义的动词。

3.Practice

Purpose : To get Ss to know how to use the past participle through exercises

(1)

Ask Ss to finish Ex1, Ex2 and Ex3 on P24 and check the answers in pairs.

(2)

Ask Ss to finish Ex1 and Ex2 on P65 and check the answers in pairs.

(3)

Get Ss to choose the best answers to the following sentences.

①

He spoke so loud that he made himself

C. to understand D. understood A.

understand

B. understanding ②

---- There is a hole in your shirt. ---- I know. I’m going to have it

. C. mended from my friends. C. lost D. missing language of most D. to be mended A. mend

B. mending ③

As we joined the big crowd I got A. separated

B. separating ④

English is a language

all around the world and is the international organizations.

A.

to speak, working

B. spoken , working C. speaking, worked D. spoken, worked ⑤

Price of daily goods

through a computer can be lower than store prices. B. bought of the C. been bought speech, started to read a novel. D. buying A: are bought

⑥

Mr. Smith ,

A .tired; boring

B. tiring; bored C. tired; bored D. tiring; boring as the plane was making a ⑦

The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain landing .

A.

seat

B. seating population is a problem that is C. seated many countries. B. grown, troubled D. grown, troubling D. to be seating ⑧

How to feed a

A. growing, troubling C. growing, troubled

⑨

He found a book

with the owner’s name on the desk with the back cover

off.

A. marking, lying, torn

B. marked, lying, torn D. marking, laying, tearing _the girl and took her away, into C. marked, laid, tearing

⑩

Suddenly, a tall man driving a golden carriage

the woods.

A. seizing; disappeared

B. seized; disappeared D. seized; disappearing C. seizing; disappearing

Suggested Answers:

①

D ②

C ③

A

④

B ⑤

B ⑥

A

⑦

⑧

A

⑨

B ⑩

D C