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人教新课标版Book4 Unit2 Working the land

(Learning about language: Grammar部分）

邢台市第二中学

杨朝霞

Analysis of the teaching material

This teaching period mainly deals with the grammar: the use of the –ing form as the subject and object. The emphasis of this period is mainly placed on understanding and usage of the grammar. Therefore, teachers should create a relatively real context to present enough sentences for students to draw a conclusion about the rule of the –ing form as the subject and object. In the meantime, teachers should offer more opportunities for students to practice it.

Analysis of the students Students often find it abstract and difficult to learn grammar, so it is necessary to make the class interesting by connecting the class with their daily life or something they are interested in.

Teaching Aims (1) Knowledge aims Get students to learn the -ing form as subject and object.

(2)Ability aims Enable the students to use the -ing form as subject and object correctly and properly, especially in the real situation. (3)Moral aims Get students to become interested in grammar learning.

Develop the students’ sense of group cooperation. Teaching important Points 1.

Let students learn which verbs are followed by the -ing form as object and which by the infinitive. 2.

Get students to grasp which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive and have the same meaning. 3.

Have students master which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive but express different meanings. Teaching difficult Points Have students master which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive but express different meanings and use them correctly.

Teaching methods 1. Communicative teaching method 2. Task-based activities Teaching Aids A multimedia computer，blackboard,

textbook

Teaching Procedure StepⅠ Lead-in

1. Ask students to turn back to Page10 to read through the passage again, pick out the sentences using the –ing forms as either the subject or the object, and then underline the –ing form in each sentence and try to translate the whole sentence into Chinese. (1)

Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. (2)

As a young man, he saw the greet need for increasing the rice output. (3)

Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. (4)

However, he doesn’t care about being famous. (5)

He enjoys listening violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. (6)

Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very little to him. (7)

Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. (8)

Dr Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. 2. Let students think over and discuss with their partner how these –ing forms are used, and distinguish which is used as the subject and which is used as the object. Have them try to sum up some uses of the –ing form.

Step Ⅱ Sum up the use of the –ing form as the subject 1. Get students to analyze the following sentences with -ing form and then say out their function of -ing form. Seeing is believing.

Helping her is my duty. Talking mends no holes.

Working with you is a pleasure.

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It's rather tiring walking around in a city. It’s worth making the effort．

It's no use crying over spilt milk. 2. The usage of the –ing form as the subject （1）-ing直接置于句首主语的位置上。

Learning new words is very important for me. Reading books can widen our knowledge. （2）用形式主语it，把真正的主语—动名词结构移置句尾。但这种句子形式有一定的限制，作表语的只能是某些形容词或少数名词，如useful，useless，good，fun；no use，worth等。

It is useless trying to argue with him.

Step Ⅲ

Sum up the use of the –ing form as the object 1. Let students analyze the following sentences with -ing form and then say out their function of -ing form. Have you considered looking for one special friend?

Do you feel like having a walk with me after supper? People couldn’t help laughing foolish man．

Let’s start singing to song.

After a warm discussion, we all continued doing our homework. 2. The usage of the –ing form as the object (1) 有些动词或短语动词后常用动名词作宾语。如admit, appreciate, avoid，can't stand（不能忍受）, consider，delay, devote … to, enjoy，escape, excuse, feel like, finish, forgive, imagine. insist on, keep (on), look forward to, mention, mind, miss（错过）, pay attention to, practice, put off, stick to, suggest等。

（2）在begin, continue, love, like, hate, prefer, intend, start后用动名词和用不定式作宾语均可，意义没有多大区别。

（3）动词forget, go on, mean, regret, remember, stop, try, be used to, can't help后跟动名词和跟不定式区别较大，需注意。 forget, regret, remember后跟动名词，动名词表示已经发生的动作；后跟不定式表示将要发生的动作。

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Let students finish the exercise 4 on Page 13 and help them master the use of both the –ing form and the infinitive.

Step Ⅳ

Practice and consolidation Complete the following sentences with the –ing form of the verbs in the box.

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Then answer the questions using the –ing form as much as you can and share your ideas with your group members.

do

exchange

get

use

pay

learn

dance

smoke

play

supply

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is bad for you. What is good for you? (2) I hate

bills. What do you hate doing? (3) I’m used to

up late. How about you? (4)

English is hard for me. What is hard for you? (5) I enjoy

the violin in my free time. What do you like to do? (6)

your homework is a good idea. What else helps your studies? (7)

a mobile phone on a motorcycle is dangerous. What else is dangerous? (8) She is good at

. What are you good at? (9) After

a few words to him, she left quickly. Where do you think she was going? (10) Yuan Longping is famous for

the farmers with super hybrid rice seeds. What would you like to be famous for?

StepⅤ Introduce classmates Let students use at least 4 sentences with –ing form to describe one of the classmates, and let the other students guess: Who is he/she? 1.

The teacher gives an example first. 2.

Work in groups of four. Choose one to report.

Step VI

Homework Let students write a short passage to describe a person he admires.

Reflection From this lesson, I believe that the students can master the usage of the –ing form as the subject and object. However, they may make mistakes sometimes, so after class some exercises are necessary.

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