Learning about Languageppt课件课堂实录

L earning about language

Liu Lanying Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

patent, distinguish, product, power, perfume, cube, abrupt, abruptly, convenient, expectation, monitor, passive, criterion, valid, application, file, rod, call up, now and then, set about, in case b. 重点句子

1. The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.

2. Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes when cooled.

3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel.

4. Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s.

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Make them realize it takes steps to catch the snakes and it’s not easy to get a patent.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students to learn how to retell the story and how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Teaching important points 教学重点

How to describe the problem of the snakes and what has been done by the writer to solve the problem. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Learn how to meet the requirements of getting a patent.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based activities.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A recorder, a projector and some slides.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision

1. Greetings 2. Check the answers to the multiple choices in USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS.

3. Ask some students to show the answers to the preview questions.

T: Last period, you were asked to preview the text and answer the two questions. Did you get ready? Sample answers: 1. The problem talked about in the text is how to catch snakes in the courtyard. 2. The writer solved the problem in different steps. For example placing the frozen bowl and the ice-cubes on top of the bowl to keep it cool, freezing the bowl and ice-cubes again in the evening as the temperature was starting to cool and using a net used for catching fish. Help the students deal with the difficult language points in the text. T: Now, everyone, I wonder if you have any difficulties in understanding the text. S1: I have one question. I can’t understand the structure of the sentence in Para. 2 on page 20: The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes. Would you please explain it and put it into Chinese for us? T: Sure. This sentence tells us the first step of the writer’s research on the problem of the snakes. The words the first thing is modified by an attributive clauses I tried to do and the words powders is modified by an attributive past participle phrase designed to kill snakes. The clause if there were products that might help me serves as an objective clause. 全句汉语意思：我设法做的第一件事是看看是否有能帮我忙的

产品，但是好像只有一些用来捕杀蛇的粉末。

S2: I don’t know much about the last but one sentence of the third paragraph on page 20: Between the outside and the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which freezes hard when cooled.

What’s the sentence structure like? Why is

“when cooled” used? What does it mean? Please explain it in details. T: As a whole, this sentence is an inverted sentence with the prepositional phrase Between the outside and inside walls of the bowl put in the front, which tells us what the writer used in order to cool the snakes. which freezes hard when cooled is a non-restrictive attributive clause modifying the sentence in front of it. When cooled is an elliptic form of when it is cooled.全句意思是：在碗内外侧有一些果子冻，冷却时它们会冻得很结实。

S3: I find it difficult to understand the first sentence of the last paragraph: Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s. Can you explain it? Thank you.

T: Well, this sentence tells us another requirement of getting a patent. This is an inverted sentence of adverbial clause, with the negative word Nor at the beginning of the sentence. that your product really is different from everybody else’s is an objective clause. In the normal order, this sentence can be paraphrased like this: You will not receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everybody else’s. 全句意为：直到做了一次调查后发现你的产品确实与众不同，这时你才会获得专利。

Step Ⅳ Comprehending

T: Now, please look at Exercise 1 on page 21. Listen to the recording of the passage to get the answers to the questions. While listening, pay more attention to the correct pronunciation and tone. Then read the text by yourselves to get the answers to the next questions (slide). You can work in groups.

Step Ⅴ Homework Ask the students to do the following.

1. Go over the whole passage. 2. Recite the key sentences in the text.

3. Prepare for Learning about Language and USING STRUCTURES in the workbook.