Grammar教学实录与评析

Module 3 The Violence of Nature Period 4 Grammar 2 Indirect Speech, Speaking 叶韶华

Teaching Goals: 1. To get Ss to go over the Past Perfect Tense. 2. To get Ss to go over the Indirect Speech. Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Presentation Read these sentences and answer the following questions. I’m still working because there is a lot to do.

Eleven thousand people live here and six thousand left last week. Does this mean that the danger is over? They can’t go back to their houses.

When will people be able to return home? He said that he was still working because there was a lot to do. He said that eleven thousand people lived there and six thousand had left. He asked if this meant that the danger was over. He said that they couldn’t go back to their houses.

The reporter asked when people would be able to return home. 1.

What are the tense changes in indirect speech? 2.

Which other words change? 3.

What word is added when a yes/no question is reported? Suggested answers: 1. present simple becomes past simple; Present continuous become past continuous; Past simple remains past simple or becomes past perfect; Present perfect becomes past perfect; 2. time phrases change 3. if Step 2 Explanations 1. 陈述句变为以that引导的宾语从句。

〔that在口语中常省略〕

She said,“

Our train will arrive in five minutes.” She said (that) their train would arrive in five minutes. He said,“

I’m very busy.” He said (that) he was very busy. 2. 一般疑问句变成if/whether引导的宾语从句。

He said,“ Can you swim, John?” He asked John if he could swim.

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The teacher said,“

Have you all understood me?”

The teacher asked if we had all understood him. 3. 特殊疑问句变为由who/what/when等疑问词引导的宾语从句。

George said,“ When will you get back from Shanghai, Mike?”

George asked Mike when he would get back from Shanghai. He said,“

Where are you going?” He asked where I was going. 直接引语变间接引语的时态变化：

直接引语中所用时态

一般现在时

一般过去时

一般将来时

现在完成时

现在进行时

过去完成时

间接引语所用的时态

一般过去时

过去完成时

过去将来时

过去完成时

过去进行时

过去完成时

a) Linda said, “I am not the girl you are looking for.”

Linda said (that) she was not the girl I was looking for. b) He said, “Your younger brother broke it yesterday.”

He said that my brother had broken it the day before. 指示代词和时间状语、地点状语的变化

类型

指示代词

直接引语

this these 时间状语

now today this week last week two days ago next week 地点状语

Step 3 : Practices here 间接引语

that those then that day that week the week before two days before the next week there

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Students’ activities a.

Change the following sentences into indirect speech. 1. “You should be more careful next time,” his father said to him.

2. Mr.Wang said,“I will leave for Shanghai on business next month, children”

3. “I haven’t heard from my parents these days,” said Mary.

4. The geography teacher said to us, “The moon moves around the earth and the earth goes round the sun.”

5. She said to him, “It’s time that you left here.”

6. Zhang Hong said to me, “Doctor Wang passed away in 1948.”

7. John said to his parents, “I had learned 500 Chinese words by the end of

last term.”

8. The history teacher said to them, “The Chinese Communist Party was founded on July 1st , 1921.”

9. He said, “Are you a student?”

10. “Have you anything interesting I can read, George?” she said.

11. “She’s here to ask for help, isn’t she?” he asked.

12. “Where are you going?” the father asked his son. 13. “Are you sorry for what you have done?”the mother asked the naughty boy.

14. She said, “Did you meet this man at the station two hours ago, Mr. Li?”

15. “Write your names on your papers first,” the teacher said to us.

16. “Please come here again tomorrow,” her friend said to her.

17. “Let me pack the parcel for you,” he said.

18. “Don’t make so much noise in class, boys and girls,” said the teacher.

19. “What a lovely day it is!”

20. “Happy New Year to you!” he said.

b. Change the following sentences into direct speech. 1. I told him that I had lost my money and that I would find it. 2. She asked whether I would be free the next day or not. 3. I asked her where she was going and what she was going to do the next day. 4. His father told him not to climb that high tree in his new coat. 5. The stranger asked me what my name was. 6. She said that she would finish her work the next day.

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7. The teacher asked if we could do it. 8. The commander ordered his men not to cross the river before dawn. 9. My teacher asked whether he was coming. 10. The scientist asked me what I was doing. Suggested answers: a. 1. His father told him that he should be more careful the next time. 2. Mr. Wang told the children that he would leave for Shanghai on business the next month. 3. Mary said that she hadn’t heard from her parents those days.

4. The geography teacher told us that the moon moves around the earth and the earth goes round the sun. 5. She told him that it was time that he left there. 6. Zhang Hong told me that Doctor Wang passed away in 1948. 7. John told his parents that he had learned 500 Chinese words by the end of last term. 8. The history teacher told them that the Chinese Communist Party was founded on July 1st, 1921. 9. He asked whether I was a student. 10. She asked George if he had anything interesting she could read. 11. He asked whether she was there to ask for help or not. 12. The father asked his son where he was going. 13. The mother asked the naughty boy if he was sorry for what he had done. 14. She asked Mr. Li whether he had met that man at the station two hours before. 15. The teacher told us to write our names on our papers first. 16. Her friend asked her to go there again the next/ following day. 17. He offered to pack the parcel for me. 18. The teacher told the boys and girls not to make so much noise in class. 19. He/ She exclaimed that it was really a lovely day. 20. He wished me a Happy New Year. b. 1. I said to him, “I have lost my money. I will find it.”

2. She asked , “ You will be free tomorrow, won’t you?”

3. I asked her, “Where are you going and what are you going to do tomorrow?”

4. His father said, “Don’t climb this high tree in your new coat.”

5. The stranger asked, “ What’s your name?”

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6. “I’ll finish my work tomorrow,” she said. 7. The teacher asked, “Can you do it?”

8. The commander ordered his men, “Don’t cross the river before dawn.”

9. My teacher asked, “Is he coming?”

10. The scientist asked me, “What are you doing?”

Step 4 : Speaking a.

Make the dialogue in the right order. 1.

Do you know anything about the volcanoes in a small island Montserrat? 2.

Because this was the most dangerous eruption the island has ever had. 3.

yes, I do. 4.

When did the eruption you know happen? 5.

Did the governor stay and work with the people? 6.

Luckily, they had plenty of warning and managed to get half the population to another island before the eruption took place. 7.

was anybody hurt? 8.

Thankfullly, no one was killed. 9.

Why do you remember this eruption not others? 10.

The volcano erupted, and ash and lava poured down the mountain towards the sea. th11.

On the 18 of July, 1995. 12.

How dangerous was it? 13.

What was the bad result? 14.

Did people know before it? 15.

Of course. He was a good governor. 16.

Sadly, hundreds of houses caught fire when the lava reached them. b.

Make up an interview on a natural disaster between a television reporter and one of local residents. Act it out for the rest of the class. Homework: 1. Review the grammar points we have learned. 2.

Finish the exercises 3,4 on page 80.

Teaching thoughts.

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