Learning about Language公开课教案

Period 2: A lesson plan for Learning about Language (The Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause)

Aims: To learn about the restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clause To discover some useful words and expressions To discover some useful structures

Procedures: I. Warming up Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions Please turn to page 3. Do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 first. Please check your answers against your classmates’. Warming up by explaining Now, class, since you’ve read the passage, could you explain to me how to use the phrase “belong to”? The word “to”

here is a preposition, indicating the possession, and is always followed by nouns or pronoun. Look at Ex 3. The preposition “at”

indicates

a state, condition or continuous activity. So we can replace them or express them by using a present-continuous tense.

II. Learning about Attributive Clause 1. What is an adjective Clause? An adjective clause is a dependent clause which takes the place of an adjective in another clause or phrase. Like an adjective, an adjective clause modifies a noun or pronoun, answering questions like “which?”

or “what kind of?”

Consider the following examples: Adjective the red coat Adjective clause the coat which I bought yesterday Like the word “red”

in the first example, the dependent clause “which I bought yesterday”

in the second example modifies the noun “coat.”

Note that an adjective clause usually comes after what it modifies, while an adjective usually comes before. In formal writing, an adjective clause begins with the relative pronouns “who(m),”

“that,”

or “which.”

In informal writing or speech, you may leave out the relative pronoun when it is not the subject of the adjective clause, but you should usually include the relative pronoun in formal, academic writing: informal The books people read were mainly religious. formal The books that people read were mainly religious. informal Some firefighters never meet the people they save. formal Some firefighters never meet the people whom they save. Here are some more examples of adjective clauses: the meat which they ate was tainted This clause modifies the noun “meat”

and answers the question “which meat?”. They’re talking about the movie which made him cry This clause modifies the noun “movie”

and answers the question “which movie?”. They are searching for the student who borrowed the book

The clause modifies the pronoun “student”

and answers the question “which student?”. Did I tell you about the author whom I met? The clause modifies the noun “author”

and answers the question “which author?”.