Learning about Language教学实录

Learning about Language :

Subject 主语

Teaching aim: Enable students to recognize the sentence member --- Subject

Teaching procedure:

What is subject? 主语是一个句子的主题，是句子所述说的主体。

主语可以用下面这些成分表示：名词、代词、数词、动名词、不定式、词组、从句。

Please underline the subject of the following sentences

1.Are there other universes outside our own?

2. Who is on the phone?

3.Two-thirds of them are college students. 4. Reading French is easier than speaking it.

5. To understand this sentence is difficult.

6. “Safety First” is our slogan. 7. What she saw gave her a little fright.

8. Why he did it will remain a puzzle forever. Revising useful structures

Exercise I

Underline the subject in these sentences. 1. Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another.

2. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed.

3. It sets us forward or backward. 4.Some conceptions of a gentleman are these: a gentleman is always considerate for the feelings of others; he has tact---he knows how to say and to do the right thing at the right time. 5.

To regret one’s errors to the point of

not repeating them is true repentance. 6. The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds. 7. Being happy is better than being king.

Exercise II

Match the subject with the predicate 1.Worrying

are doomed to repeat it. 2.Two heads

is a fool for five minutes. 3.Those who do not learn from history

are better than one. 4.To travel hopefully

never did anyone any good. 5.Failing to plan

is planning to fail. 6 A man who asks

a better thing than to arrive. 7. A man who never asks

does not speak. 8. The one who understands

cannot be undone. 9. the one who speaks

does not understand. 10. What is done

is a fool for life.

Exercise III Translate the following sentences 1.大山里静谧的氛围是我喜爱的。

The peaceful atmosphere of the mountains is the thing I love the most. Translation

2. 参加比赛给我很大的成就感。

Participating in the competition

gives me a great feeling of accomplishment.

3.在电话上谈话几个小时是我不能理解

的事。

Speaking on the phone for hours is something I can not understand. 4. 到奥运会上去比赛是我的梦想。

To compete at the Olympics is my dream. 5. 她为学校所做的一切使学生和教职员工非常感激。

What she did for school was greatly appreciated by the students and staff.

Homework: Finish all of the Vocabulary

and Grammar exercises and write Exercises 2-3 on Pages 53-54 in your exercise books.