Learning about Language教案（名师）

Teaching plan for Grammar Unit 1 Module 9 Teaching goals

1.Students will be able to learn different kinds of subjects in English expression, such as nouns, pronouns, numerals, V+ings, infinitives and clauses 2.Students will be able to learn how to encourage themselves through the whole period

Important & difficult points

How to use V+ings, infinitives and clauses as subjects

Teaching methods

List in reading, practice in topic, conclusion in discussion

Teaching aids CAI and Bb

Teaching procedures Step I

Lead-in 1.Enjoy the song “We are the champions” to show the theme of this period

Q：Have you ever heard this song?

What’s the name of the song? (We are the champions from “Queen”) 2.Talk about a champion which impresses the students most

Q: Which champion impressed you most during the 29th Olympic Games?

In which way did he impress you so much?

How much do you know about him/her?

Step II Reading 1.Talk about the American swimmer “Michael Phelps”

Q: How much do you know about Michael Phelps?

Files of Michael Phelps

Full name: Michael Fred Phelps

Birthday: June 30, 1985

Birth place : Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Height: 1.93m

Weight: 91 kg

2.Listen and answer Q: How is the passage arranged?

(D)

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A:①—②③④⑤

B: ①②③④—⑤

C: ①—②③—④⑤

D: ①—②③④—⑤

(Question→answers→conclusion)

3. Read and underline the answers to the following questions in the passage 1. What is Phelps’s belief when he is in the game?

2. What is the other surprise we got from Phelps besides these eight golds? 3. What is Phelps’s daily need in food?

4. What’s special about Phelps’s swimsuit? 5. What does the number “8” means to Phelps?

6. Can you list all he reasons for Phelps’s success in the passage? Why?

Step III Observation and practice

1.Observe the answers and find different subjects in the passage 1. Nothing is impossible.

2. Breaking seven world records in the process

is another bomb he threw to the world.

3.

To eat an astonishing 12,000 calories a day is a

common way to feed his huge swimmer's body.

4. This suit is made of a special material which is said to help athletes swim 2% faster.

5. Eight is a lucky number for him, too, now.

6. It

is impossible to list all the reasons for Phelps’s success here.

Q: What are the red parts? Are they used in the same way?

(Bb)

pron.

gerund (v-ing)

infinitive (to do) subjects

n.

numeral

the formal subject “it”

2. Practice

1) Practice using the formal subject “it”

It is impossible to list all the reasons for Phelps’s success here.

Q: As we know it is a formal subject here. Where is the real subject?

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3) Talk about the answers

1. What I want to do most is to have a good sleep.

2. How I tried to speak Chinese seemed to be hard.

Q: What patterns are they in grammar? (Subject clause)

Where are the subjects?

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(Ask Ss to underline the real subject, then re-write in a new way as the following)

→_____ is impossible _____ we can list all the reasons for Phelps’s success here. Q: Where is the real subject?

Patterns: It is …to do sth.

It is …that….

It is no…doing sth

2) Finish Exercise 1 on Page 5 in the textbook

3) Discuss about the last sentence

Being happy is better than being the King Q: Do you agree? If not, what’s your own idea?

Being ______ is better than being the King

Can you imagine what will be Phelps’s answer if you ask him?

3.Practice in topic

(Show a short video of Phelps’s )

1) Talk about the interview

Q: What is Phelps doing in the video?

If you have chance to interview Phelps, what will you ask him?

(Ask Ss to list the questions they are interested in) 2) Talk about the interview between Phelps and Yang Lan

T: As we know, it is impossible for us to interview Phelps right now but Yang Lan had. Do you want to know what she asked Phelps and what are Phelps’s answers?

(Ask Ss to read out the questions from Yang Lan, then imagine what was Phelps’s answers

Y: It is said you began to learn Chinese when you were in America, what do you think of that experience?

P: How I tried to speak Chinese seemed to be _____but full of _____. I enjoy it very much Y: What do you want to do most after this games?

P: What I want to do most is______, because________________.

Which words can we use at the beginning of these patterns?

Can we use “if” instead of “whether” in these patterns?

Can we use “no matter…” instead of “…ever”?

4) Read and finish another passage about Phelps

Fill in the blanks with “what,why, where, whether, how and that”.

_____ nothing can stop Michael Phelps realizing his dream was proved in the 200m butterfly at the Water Cube on August 8, 2008. But _____ he won the gold medal and broke the world record again were a wonder. After he dove in, he found his glasses were filled right up with water. At that time, ________ he could beat others or not turned into a puzzle, he thought. ______ he could do was just to go on swimming blind. At the 150 meter wall to the finish. ______ he could touch became the most challenging problem. Fortunately, not only did he touch it first, but he did it in world record time, 1 minute 52.03 seconds. But he was not so pleased with the result. _______ he felt disappointed was that he didn’t finish it at 1 minutes 51 seconds.

Step IV Consolidation (Use the game “Lucky 52” to play a game between girls and boys. Both of the two groups got four gold eggs to knock. The most one will be the champion at last) Egg 1:

____parents say and do has a life-long effect on their children.

A.That

B.Which

C.What

D.As

Egg 2:--He got his first book published. It turned out to be a bestseller.

--When was____? --___ was in 2000 when he was still in college.

A.that/This

B.this/It

C.it/This

D.that/It Egg 3:

___ team wins on Saturday will go through to the national championships. A.No matter what

B.No matter which

C.Whatever

D.Whichever Egg 4:China’s restaurant on Baker Street, ___________ used to be poorly run, in now a successful business.

A.that

B.which

C.who

D.where Egg 5:

____ is our belief that improvements in health care will lead to a stronger, more prosperous economy.

A.As

B.That

C. This

D. It Egg 6:Tomorrow is Tom’s birthday. Have you got any idea

the party is to be held?

A.what

B. which

C. that

D. where

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Egg 7:

--Don’t you think ________(swim)

in rivers is a good sport?

--I can’t agree more

Egg 8:

Ding proper consolidation exercises are necessary for our study . ( Is that a right

sentence? ) ______

When we consider a infinitive or a clause as a subject, how can we choose the form of the verb, single or plural?

Step V Summary 1. Finish the form and find the example in the passages.

S U B J E C T

This suit is made of a special material. Nothing is impossible. Eight is a lucky number for Phelps. Breaking seven world records in the process

is another bomb…

To eat an astonishing 12,000 calories as day

is a common way…

It is impossible to list all the reasons for his success here. What is it that makes Michael Phelps so good? What he could do was just to go on swimming blind.

2. Discussion Q: What is it that makes Michael Phelps so good?

3. Let’s remember

You are the subject of your own!

You are the champion in your life!

Step VI Assessment 1) Summarize the grammar part of this period 2) Finish the exercises on Page 5 and 6; try to translate them into Chinese 3) Write a short passage about a champion who impressed you most, at least 120 words

Useful expressions 1. It is he/she who….

2. What he/she impressed me most is….

3. How he/she could succeed is ….

4. It is …to do/doing….

…

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Reading passage: How Is He So Good? In China he's known as “the Flying Fish”; in America they call him “the Baltimore Bullet”. Whatever you call him, American swimmer Michael Phelps has become a household name across the world after breaking the Olympic record for most gold medals in a single Games. “Nothing is impossible.” Phelps said after the games. Phelps's total of eight golds in Beijing put him one ahead of Mark Spitz's previous record in 1972 and breaking seven world records in the process is another bomb he threw to the world. Now people are already calling him the greatest Olympian of all time. But whether he is or not, what is it that makes Michael Phelps so good? A good place to start might be his body, which has the perfect shape for a swimmer: his armspan is longer than his height, he has very flexible joints, huge lungs, and his incredibly large feet (size 14 in the US, size 49 in China) act like flippers in the water. For Phelps, to eat an astonishing 12,000 calories a day is a common way to feed his huge swimmer's body, six times the average for a man of his age.

He then slips into a swimsuit which was designed by NASA, the National American Space Agency. This suit is made of a special material which is said to help athletes swim 2% faster. Michael Phelps should spare a thought for his mum, who first pushed him into swimming as a way of making friends, and who believed in him when one teacher said he would never be a success. It is impossible to list all the reasons for his success here. However, Phelps admits there was perhaps also a bit of luck involving in winning his eight medals. "I guess eight is a lucky number for me, too, now. The opening ceremony started on 8/8/08. Maybe it was meant to be," he said.

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