Learning about Language教学设计及说课稿

Unit 4 Book 8

Pygmalion Period 4 Learning about Language Teaching goals

Enable students to:

know the form and recognize the past participle in a sentence; use participles to translate phrases and sentences; use past participle to write a short passage.

Teaching important & difficult points

How to avoid the frequently made mistakes when using the past participle as adverbial. Teaching procedures & ways

Step I Lead-in

Guessing Game

Use a guessing game to make student recognize the form of past participles. Q1: When heated, I'll turn into gas, what am I?

Q2: If taken half, I will leave nothing, what number am I?

Q3: Made of gold, I often live on the woman's finger, what am I?

Step II Observe and Find the Rules

1.

Underline the past participles in the following sentences and translate the whole sentence into Chinese.

①

Done in a hurry, his homework was full of mistakes.

②

Defeated by the young player for the second time, he didn't lost heart.

③

Born in a poor family, he had little schooling.

④

Unless invited, I won't attend this wedding.

⑤

Once caught smoking in the kitchen, the cook will be fired.

2.

Find out the mistakes in the following sentences and explain why.

①

After questioning by the teacher, he sat down and went on to take notes. ②

He could focus more on his studies if he left alone.

③

Seen from the top of the mountain, we can get a good view of the whole town.

④

Be lost in deep thought, he didn't hear the sound.

⑤

Growing in rich soil, these seeds can grow fast.

Step III Practice

1.

Use past participle to rewrite the following sentences.

①

If we were given more time, we could do it better.

②When heated to a high temperature, water will change to vapor.

③As she was frightened by the noise in the night, the girl did not dare sleep in her room. ④Since I was worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.

⑤She walked out of the house, and was followed by her little daughter. 2.

Use past participle as adverbial to combine the following information in one sentence.

Charles Dickens

(1) 英国著名小说家

(2) 出生于一个贫困的家庭

(3) 几乎没有接受过教育

3.

Look at the following pictures and fill in the blanks.

_____________________________, Kiki decided to leave her hometown to look for a new world. ______________________, she set out. ___________________________, the people in a small town looked at her surprisedly. Later, she met a boy. She told him that she had arrived here __________________________.

__________________________________, he decided to look for a new would with her.

Step IV Homework Ask the students to do the followings. 1. Finish the Exercise in work book and supplement material on grammar 2. Use past participle as adverbial to write a short story.