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Unit 2

Grammar

--- Gerund used as subject and object

Zhang Junhe Ⅰ. Teaching aims: 1.

Knowledge aims:

①

To master the usage of the gerund used as subject and object. ②

To know the different forms of the gerund used as subject and object. 2.

Ability aims:

①

To identify what the gerund is used as.

②

To use gerunds in the speaking and writing. 3.

Emotional aims:

①

To be confident of learning English for mastering more means of expression.

②

To cooperate with other students. Ⅱ. Important points:

Use gerunds in the speaking and writing correctly and freely.

Ⅲ. Difficult points:

①

Identify what the gerund is used as.

②

Use gerunds in their speaking and writing correctly and freely. Teaching methods:

Induction and cooperative learning Teaching procedure:

Step 1 Lead-in

Enjoy a song of Love Step 2 Warming up Pay attention to the following words in the song: feeling wanting reaching asking knowing living needing The concept and form of gerund.

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Step 3 Grammar learning

一、Gerund used as subject Ⅰ. Reading and discovering 1.Since then ,finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal.

2. Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very little to him. 3. Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. Ⅱ. Thinking and discussing Read the sentences loudly, think them over and discuss with your partner what gerund is and what the gerund is used as. III. Summing up 1. The gerund can be used as subject.

2. The verb is singular.

IV.Grammar practice 1

Write sentences according to the pictures, meanwhile get some common sentence patterns: It is/was no good/no use/useless doing sth. It is/was a waste of time/money doing sth. It is/was worthwhile doing sth. V. Grammar practice 2 Make sentences using the above grammar according to three pictures.

二、Gerund used as object Ⅰ. Reading and discovering 1.As a young man ,he saw the great need for increasing the rice output.

2.Dr

Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. 3. However, he doesn't care about being famous.

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4. He enjoys listening violin music, playing mah-jong, swinmming and reading.

5. Dr Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. Ⅱ. Thinking and discussing Read the sentences loudly, think them over and discuss with your partner what gerund is and what the gerund is used as. III. Summing up 1. The gerund can be used as object. 2. The gerund can be object of a verb and preposition.

IV.Grammar practice

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Verbs whose objects are gerunds

避免错误少延期（avoid, miss,

postpone）

建议完成多练习（advise, finish, practice）

喜欢想象禁不住（enjoy, imagine, can’t help）

承认否定与嫉妒（admit, deny, envy）

忍受保持不介意（stand, keep, mind）

Make sentences using one of the above combinations. 2. Phrases in which the gerund is used as the object of the proposition.

insist on, object to, be good at, lead to, put off, give up, look forward to, feel like, devote…to, get used to, pay attention to……

Make sentences using the above grammar and phrases according to these pictures.

3. Some verbs’ objects can be the gerunds or the infinitives, and there is no difference, such as intend，continue, hate, start, begin, love, like, prefer ①

Cui Wangwang starts/begins studying/to study English hard so that it can be as good as his Chinese.

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Ji Wenyong continues being/to be the number 1 in Class 17. 4. Some verbs’ objects can be the gerunds or the passive form of infinitive,

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and there is no difference, such as want, worth,need, require ①

The window needs/requires/wants cleaning.

= The window needs/requires/wants to be cleaned.

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Her shoes wants mending.

= Her shoes wants to be mended. 5. go on doing

继续做原来做的事

mean doing 意味着要做某事

go on to do

接着做另一件事

mean to do 想要做某事

remember to do 记得要去做某事

try doing 试着做某事（看会发生什么）

remember doing 记得做了某事

try to do 努力/企图做某事

be used to doing

习惯于做某事

can't help doing

禁不住做某事

be used to do

被用来做某事

can't help to do

不能帮助做某事

The above verbs’ objects can be the gerunds or the infinitive, and there is a big difference. Step 4 Practice Finish the exercises on students’ papers.

Step 5 Homework Write an essay using gerunds to describe one of your classmates in more than 100 words.

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