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Grammar

Teaching aims: Enable students to learn how to use the –ing form as the attribute, the object complement and the predicative. Key points: Let students know the structures of the sentences with the –ing form Difficult points: Help students to tell the –ing form as the predicative and the use of the present continuous tense. Teaching aids: A computer Teaching procedure:

Step 1.

Revision

Check homework: the exercises on page 20 and 21.

Step 2.

Word formation Suffix Example -able valuable

lovable

comfortable -ing amusing

misleading

neighboring -ful hopeful

cheerful

useful -less endless

homeless

harmless -ed excited

interested

moved -ish Irish

childish

selfish -ive active

attractive

expensive -ate fortunate

affectionate

passionate -ant important

pleasant

ignorant -ly friendly

orderly

costly

There are ten suffixes in the chart. And there are some new words in it. But the purpose of showing this chart is to let students learn more about the adjective suffix.

Step 3.

Discovering useful structures

Task 1.

Revision Have a revision about the –ing form used as the subject and object. Give students some sentences to translate: (1)

Talking to him is useless. (2)

Smoking does harm to your health. (3)

Walking is my sole exercise. (4)

Collecting stamps is my hobby. (5)

I suggested bringing the meeting to an end. (6)

He admitted taking the money. (7)

I couldn’t help laughing. (8)

Your coat needs washing.

Task 2.

New usage of the –ing form Ask students to look at the Exercises 4 on page 20. And then wake in pairs to finish the exercises.

Teacher checks the answers and give the explanations. (1)

A cooking pot:

A pot that is used for cooking. (2)

A drinking horse:

A horse that is drinking water. (3)

The man sitting on the sofa is a friend of my brother’s. Here the –ing form are used as attribute. (4)

I saw the man sliding on a banner skin yesterday. (5)

Did you notice the man picking up that broken bottle and putting it in his bag? Hear the –ing form are used as object complement The structure of the sentence with an object complement is: Subject + Predicate + Object + Object complement (6)

Her job is looking after babies. (7)

What he likes is playing chess after supper. Here the –ing form are used as predictive. Pay attention to the differences between –ing form used as predicative and present continuous tense. (1)

Her hobby is painting. (2)

Her favorite sport is skiing. (3)

This was very disappointing. (4)

The test results are very discouraging. (5)

She was very pleasing in her appearance. (6)

His concern for his mother is very touching. (7)

The photograph is missing. (8)

The article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized. In the first two sentences, the –ing form is used to show the character of the subject. In the next four sentences the words of the –ing form are all about the feelings. In the last two sentences, the words of the –ing form show some states and qualities. (9)

It is snowing hard. (10)

She is teaching in a night school.

In these two sentences, the –ing form are used as the predicate in the present continuous tense.

Step 4.

Using Structures

Turn to page 56. Look at the Using Structure. There are two exercises in this part. Exercise 1 is to let students correct some errors in the sentences. This is not an easy job for most students, because it needs other knowledge, besides what the students learned today. So better leave them more time to do this exercise. For exercise 2, let students finish it in a short time. With the help of the pictures, students can easily understand the meaning and correctly use the –ing form to finish the blanks. Teacher can check the answers in class.

Step 4.

Homework

Finish all exercises on page 56.