Learning about Language教案1

Learning about Language

(The Present Perfect Passive Voice)

Teaching Aims

1. To know the structure of the present perfect passive voice. 2. To learn the usages of the present perfect passive voice. 3. To become interested in grammar learning and try to use them freely. Teaching Procedures

Leading-in Observe the following sentences, and find something in common. (1)Over time I have been changed quite a lot.

(2)That book has been translated into at least 12 foreign languages.

To begin with, turn to page 18, listening to and reading to the recording of the text WHO AM I? Attention goes to the pauses and intonation, as well as the pronunciation of the reader.

II. Discovering useful words and expressions

In pairs do the exercises 1, 2 and 3 on pages 19 and 20. You must finish them in 10 minutes.

Discovering useful words and expressions

Answer key for Exercise 1:

1 totally

2 revolution

3 artificial intelligence

4 birth

5 simple-minded 6 go by 7 deal with 8 network

9 truly

10 anyway Answer key for Exercise 2:

revolution; network; went by; totally; truly; simple-minded; Anyway; deal with

Answer key for Exercise 3:

1 totally 2 amazed 3 exciting 4 excited 5 cheaply 6 unlucky Discovering useful structures

Answer key for Exercise 1:

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... my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information ....

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I have truly been built to serve the human race ....

Answer key for Exercise 2:

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A new personal computer has been bought by us．

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Many problems have been found with our new computer．

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A PC has been built the way we wanted．

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Our computer has just been joined to the Internet．

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The computer has been used every day by us since we bought it．

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A lot of e-mails have been written on the computer in the past year．

III. Learning about grammar

1. Passive Voice—Overview

Tense or Model Passive Sentence

Simple Present The TOEFL exam is given every six months.

Simple past The TOEFL exam was given last month.

Simple Future The TOEFL exam this year will be given on October15.

Present Continuous The TOEFL exam is being given every year.

Present perfect The TOEFL exam has been given every year since 1950.

Past perfect The TOEFL exam had been given before the Vietnam War occurred.

Simple Modal The TOEFL exam should be given to every Foreign student.

Past Modal The TOEFL exam should have been given to all to enter US colleges.

2. The Present Perfect Passive Voice

The structure of The Present Perfect Passive Voice is: have/ has ＋

been＋~ed

IV. Reading aloud and discovering

Now go back to page 18 to read aloud and discover in the text examples of The Present Perfect Passive Voice.

As the years have gone by, I have been made smaller and smaller.

Since then, my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal with information with each other around the world by the Internet.

V. Discovering useful structure

We shall do grammar exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 20.

VI. Closing down by doing a quiz

Class exercises 一. 把下列主动语态转化为被动语态: 1. People play football all over the world.

Football __________ all over the world by people. 2. Did they ask him some questions?

_____________ any questions by them? 3. They warned Mary that the dog was dangerous.Mary ____________ that the dog was dangerous by them.

4. Who has broken the window?

By whom _____ the window ________________? 5. You forgave him his rudeness, didn’t you?He _________________ his rudeness by you,

wasn’t he?

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6. Should we do the work today or tomorrow?________ the work __________ today or tomorrow by us?

II.改错

1. A personal computer has bought by us. 2. Many problems has been found with our new computer. 3. A PC has been builded the way we wanted. 4. Our computer just has been joined to the Internet. 5. The computer was used every day since we bought it. 6. A lot of e-mails had written on the computer in the

past 5 years. Homework

1. Summary the rules of this grammar. 2. Finish off Exercise. 1 & 2 on Page 57.

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