Learning about Languageppt配套的教学设计及说课稿

Unit 2 Working the land

Learning about language: Grammar

-ing The analysis of teaching material: This teaching period mainly deals with the grammar: the use of the -ing form as the subject and object. During this period, lead students to discover the rules of grammar by observing, inducing, comparing, and summarizing. Meanwhile,offer students the chance to use what they have learned. Therefore,combine the difficult grammar with the students’ life and study, including the material, making the grammar situational and communicative.

The analysis of students: Students feel the grammar abstract and difficult, so it is necessary to make the lesson interesting and connect it with their daily life in order to let it easy to accept, understand and learn . Teaching aims: Knowledge and skills: Get students to learn the -ing form as the subject and object. Ability and methods: Enable students to use the -ing form as the subject and object correctly. Emotion and values: 1.

Get students to become interested in grammar learning. 2.

Develop students’ sense of group cooperation.

Teaching important points: 1.

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

Get students to grasp which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive but express different meanings. Teaching difficult points: 1.

Enable students to learn how to use the -ing form as the subject correctly. 3.

Have students master which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive but express different meanings. Teaching methods: Task-based method, situational method, inductive method Learning methods: Individual learning, cooperative learning, pair work, discussion Teaching procedures: Step I Warming up

Show students several sings to remind students to pay attention to the -ing form.

The intention of the design:These signs are based on the daily life. On one hand, it can arouse students’ interest in learning; on the other hand, it tells students that it can be put into practice. Step II Discovering Pair-work. First,show students the sentences and let students in pairs to find out the sentences which uses the -ing form as the subject and which as the object. They will also find that -ing can be used as the object both of verb and preposition. The intention of the design:Develop students’ ability of induction.

Step III -ing as the subject 1.Give students two examples to let them summarize: 动词-ing形式作主语,通常置于句首，谓语动词用单数形式。

Eg.Reading aloud_____is____ (be) a good way in learning a language. Getting up early____is_____ (be) a good habit. 2.Give students the following sentence patterns to let them summarize: -ing置于句末，用it作形式主语. It +be+ worth doing... It +be+ a waster of time doing... It +be+no use doing... It +be+ no good doing... It +be+ no pleasure doing... 3.Do EX.2 on page13 to consolidate the usage of -ing. The intention of the design:Let students induce the rules of -ing as the subject step by step.And consolidate the knowledge by exercises. Step III -ing as the object

1.Show students some sentences and let students pay attention to the form of the object.They will find some verbs are followed by the -ing form as the object and some by the infinitive. Eg.1) He suggested doing it in a different way.

2) The president tried to avoid answering the reporter’s questions.

3) I admit having read your letter.

4) Mom agreed to lend me some money.

5) Jack pretended not to see me when he passed.

6) My friend offered to help when I was in trouble.

2.Group work. Offer students some verbs. Let students discuss which verbs are followed by the -ing form as the object and which by the infinitive.And also which verbs can be followed by both the -ing form and the infinitive. After this, students choose the verbs they like to make up sentences in order to make what they have learned into practice.

3.Let students compare the differences when the verbs are followed by both -ing and to do according to the examples. They will find they have different meanings. Then show some verbs which are followed by both -ing and to do. Eg. I forgot mailing your letter.

I forgot to mail your letter.

Playing computer games means wasting time.

Do you really mean to go?

He tried working out the problem another way. He tried to open the back door with the key. 4.Give students examples to let them summarize:含有介词的动词短语后常用动词-ing形式作宾语。强调：如果动词宾语或介词宾语是被动的动作，则用being done。

Eg. get down to，give up，devote...to，insist on，keep(on)，look forward to，

pay attention to, stick to，be accustomed to＝be used to(习惯于)，... . Eg.She insisted on __opening__(open) the window. She doesn't mind __being laughed at__(laugh at). The intention of the design:Develop students inductive ability.

Step IV Practice The intention of the design:Show students the following pictures.And in groups cooperate and discuss to make up sentences. And when students make up sentences, they should use -ing as the subject or object to strengthen the theme.

Step V

Summary and homework The intention of the design:Consolidate the main points. 1.Fill in the blanks with the verbs given in their proper form.

I used to like to go to our local cinema. It was old and rather uncomfortable, but it had character. Now they’ve stopped _______ (show) films there. The owner would have liked to go on ______ (run) the cinema, but to do that he needed ________ (make) a lot of improvements, which meant ______ (spend) tens of thousands of pounds. I remember _______ (watch) the last film at the cinema. It was a murder mystery. Five minutes from the end, when we were trying ________(work) out who the murderer was when all the lights suddenly went out and the film stopped. We sat in the dark for a few minutes, and then the owner appeared with a torch. “I regret _____ (tell) you,” he said, “that we’ve had a power cut. I’m sorry _________ (disappoint) you, but I’m afraid we can’t show you the end of the film. We’ve tried

_______ (phone) the electricity company, but they say they can’t help.” He went on _________ (explain) how the film ended. Despite this, I don’t regret ________ (go) to the cinema on its last evening.(showing, running, to make, spending, watching, to work, to tell, to disappoint, phoning, to explain, going)

2.Do Exercise 4 on page 13. Step VI The design of the handwriting The intention of the design:summarize the main points. -ing

-ing as the subject

-ing as the object