Learning about Language教学设计和教学实录

Book8 Unit4 Learning about language---- Grammar The Past Participles as Adverbials过去分词作状语

I. Analysis of Teaching Material This teaching period focuses on revising past participle as adverbial, which is one of the key grammar items in English language, and also puzzles students a lot. Therefore, in order to stimulate students’ learning interest and motivation, the target grammar is set in an interesting context. It is about their recent study tour of strawberry planet in Tong Chuan, which is the explicit topic while the target grammar is the implicit learning material. Thus, the study tour context serves as the carrier of the target grammar. Besides, as a revising lesson, this teaching period puts an emphasis on students’ exploration of the difficulties and the application of the target grammar, which they all undertook by themselves in class. The final writing task is arranged based on the analysis of students. Since this is a revising lesson, a majority of students can write by using the target grammar and attain a higher level with the previous knowledge. For students who can not attain this level, the writing task also has an appropriate version of requirement with degraded difficulty. They can refer to the given reading text which serves as an scaffold for students to achieve the writing task. Finally, in the stage of practice and production, the exercises are arranged from closed questions to open questions to achieve the teaching aim. II. Analysis of Students Students have learned the target grammar before, and they knew the nonfinite verbs but not every student can express ideas by using the target grammar. The practice exercises as well as the task are designed according to this academic background of students. Due to different language proficiency and language ability, different levels of writing tips are designed to ensure the development in their zone of proximal development to different extent. Learning from the micro class of the flipped classroom enables students to revise the meaning, the form, the function of the past participle as well as the method of changing adverbial phrases into adverbial clauses or compound sentences. They had equipped themselves with the basic rules of the target grammar, which laid a foundation for the class production. The students, who were all born in the Information Age, to a great extent, are familiar with and interested in watching videos. However, they are likely to lose patience when reading an article on unfamiliar topics. Thus, In order to motivate their learning interest, their experiences became the theme of the class to make them aware that English is everywhere, and life itself is the learning materials. 1

III. Teaching Objectives

1. Objectives of Knowledge

(1)Get students to learn and grasp the rules of the past participle as the adverbial (2)Get students to learn about the experiences in strawberry planet via reading. 2. Objectives of Ability (1) Enable students to use the past participle as the adverbial in expressing ideas (2) Develop students’ ability to explore the rules by the inductive approach.

(3)Cultivate students’ autonomous learning ability via flipped classroom

approach.

3. Objectives of Emotion (1) Get students to learn about the significance of study tour. (2)Get students to develop their sense of group cooperation to work out puzzles. IV. Teaching Emphases 1. Enable students to have a good command of the past participle as the adverbial.

2. Get students to explore puzzles in group work. 3. Get students to use the past participle as the adverbial in expressing ideas.

4. Get students to learn the inductive approach to explore the rules of grammar.

V．Teaching Difficulties 1. Get students to have a good command of the past participle as the adverbial. 2. Get students to use the past participle as the adverbial in expressing ideas. VI Teaching Methods 1. Flipped classroom approach

2. Task-based learning

3. Cooperative learning

4. Discussing Ⅶ Teaching Procedures Step1 Lead-in Present a picture about A Strawberry Planet and ask the students what they can do there. (To lead Ss into the topic and arouse their learning interest and expectation.) Step2 Read & discover T asks Ss to read the given passage and underline the answers to four questions.

Questions: (1)What is the Strawberry Planet famous for? 2

(2)What is widely accepted about the strawberry planting? (3)What thrilled us most during the visit? (4)What kind of study approach is more appealing to us? (To get Ss to experience the target grammar in a context. To get Ss to read for identifying the target grammar.) T asks Ss to work in pairs to explore the four answers, each of which includes the target grammar.

Possible answers: (1)Well-known as the largest intelligent greenhouse cultivation base, the Strawberry Planet attracts large quantities of visitors all over the country every year. (2)It's acknowledged that grown in appropriate environment, these plants can grow well. (3)Fascinated by the growth of the strawberry, each of us planted one strawberry

seedling, which thrilled us most. (4)Compared with the traditional learning approach, study tour is more interesting

and appealing .

(To get Ss to work out the rules of the target grammar.

To cultivate Ss’ exploring spirit.) Step3 Discussion & Explore Work with your group members to explore the following questions. (1)What is the function of the past participle in each sentence? (2)What is the relationship between the past participle and the subject of the sentence?

passive relationship or active relationship? (3)What types of adverbial can the past participle act as? (4)How can these adverbial phrases be changed into the adverbial clauses? Summary Form V-ed

Meaning 与句子主语构成______ 关系

Function 过去分词在句中作状语相当于______________

(To get everyone to grasp the difficulties by group discussion.) Step 4 Discussion and Solving Puzzles

T asks Ss to discuss in groups to work out the answers to two puzzles which they met in the previous class study. Puzzle 1 What is the difference between these two sentences? Seen from the entrance of the greenhouse, the strawberries stood in straight lines.

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Seeing from the entrance of the greenhouse, we can see large quantities of strawberries stand in lines. Puzzle 2 Why is exhausted used in the following sentence rather than exhausting? Exhausted, we got on the bus and returned to school.

(To work out puzzles Ss came up with in previous study via micro class.) Step 5 Practice T asks Ss to rewrite sentences.

Rewrite the following sentences by using past participle as adverbial. (1)We were dressed in the required dust-resistance clothes and entered the greenhouse.

(2)We entered the greenhouse along with Mrs. Yang and were followed by our classmates. (3)When I was taught how to distinguish different types of strawberries, I was amazed by her proficient skills. (4)I was determined to take good care of the tiny seedling. So I planted it in the flowerpot carefully. (5)When the strawberry was watered regularly, it can grow well. (To get students to grasp the grammar rules of changing adverbial clauses into adverbial phrases.) Rewrite the following sentences by using adverbial clause or compound sentence. (1)

Interested in the growing environment of strawberries, we stood around the staff and listened attentively. (2)Asked a good many questions, the guide explained to us patiently. (3)Attracted by the fascinating strawberries, we can't help eating the yummy

berries.

(4)Tired and hungry, we waited for having dinner. (5)Attracted by the appealing cherry, Mrs. Li presented them to us. (To get students to grasp the grammar rules of adverbial phrases into adverbial clauses or compound sentences) Step 6 Consolidation and Test (1)

( translate）into English, the sentence was found to have an entirely

different word order. (2)

The experiment shows that proper amounts of exercise, if _____(carry) out

regularly, can improve our health.

(3) ______ (dress)in a white uniform, he looks more like a cook than a doctor.

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(4) ________ (lose)in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him. (5) The children went home from the grammar school, their lessons

(finish)for the day.

(To Consolidate what they have learnt in this class by doing exercises ) Step 7

Homework Your foreign friend Jim expects to know about school activities in China.Write an essay in a group of four about 80 words to introduce this study tour. Try to use the Past Participle as the adverbial as many as possible. (To consolidate and examine whether Ss have grasped the rules of the past participle as the adverbial. To encourage Ss to present their ideas.)

Step 8 Self-assessment Think about what you have learnt in this period. Then tick the boxes. I have learnt I’ve learnt the meaning and function of past participle as adverbial I’ve learnt the adj. phrase serving as adverbial

I can understand the reading materials I’ve learnt to cooperate and make contributions in group work.

Yes

No (To enable Ss to check what they learned in this period, helping to guide them to learn after class.)

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Book8 Unit4 Learning about language---- Grammar 学

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The Revision of the Past Participle as the Adverbial Part I

Read and Discover The day we had been looking forward to finally came. Having prepared some food and drinks, we set off early in the morning for our destination---the Strawberry Planet in Tong Chuan. Well-known as the largest intelligent greenhouse cultivation base, the Strawberry Planet attracts large quantities of visitors all over the country every year. It also has the distinction(荣誉) of being an ideal place to go strawberry picking. Therefore, when hearing we could pick strawberries there, we all thrilled with great excitement.

We sang songs together on the way, relaxed and excited. First, we were guided to visit the headquarter of the company, which is the largest producer of concentrated juice around the world and also the modern agricultural demonstration(示范)Park in China. There are not only strawberry demonstration garden. Apple and cherry gardens are included as well. Besides, it runs a business of planting, sorting, processing, packaging, warehousing(仓储) as well as touring and visiting, which achieves a development of combination of the primary, the secondary and the tertiary(第三) industry, from which we learned about the wise investing experience as well as the mature operation modal(成熟运营模式). Guided by the staff, we visited the laboratory for juice research. What made us most impressive was that we were invited to do some scientific experiments, which made us aware that keep eyes open, and we will get to know a lot.

Then, we were shown around the greenhouse for strawberry, where we learned about how to distinguish different types of strawberries from the appearance as well as the modern approach to agriculture, which broadened our horizons to a great extent. It's acknowledged that grown in appropriate environment, these plants can grow well. Interested in the growing environment of strawberries, we all stood around the staff, absorbed in his introduction. Meanwhile, attracted by the fascinating strawberries, some of us can't help eating the yummy(很好吃的)berries. Fascinated

by the growth of the strawberry, each of us planted one strawberry seedling(幼苗), which thrilled us most.

In the study tour, not only did we obtain valuable knowledge and experience, but also cultivate the practical ability, which is of great benefit to our development. Anyway, compared with the traditional learning approach, study tour is more interesting and appealing. 6

Questions: 1.

What is the Strawberry Planet famous for?

2.

What is widely accepted about the strawberry planting?

3.

What thrilled us most during the visit?

4.

What kind of study approach is more appealing to us?

Part II Work out the Rules Work with your group members to explore the following questions. 1. What is the function of the past participle in each sentence? 2. What is the relationship between the past participle and the subject of the sentence?

passive relationship or active relationship? 3.

What types of adverbial can the past participle act as? 4.

How can these adverbial phrases be changed into the adverbial clauses? Form V-ed

Meaning 与句子主语构成______ 关系

Function 过去分词在句中作状语相当于______________

Part III

Work out the Puzzles Puzzle 1 What is the difference between these two sentences? 1.

Seen from the entrance of the greenhouse, the strawberries stood in straight lines.

2.

Seeing from the entrance of the greenhouse, we can see large quantities of strawberries stand in lines. Puzzle 2 Why is exhausted used in the following sentence rather than exhausting? Exhausted, we got on the bus and returned to school. be lost in

be dressed in

be interested in

be devoted to be seated in

be prepared for

be determined to

be absorbed in be exposed to

be trapped in

be addicted to

be buried in 7

Part IV Practice i. Rewrite the following sentences by using past participle as adverbial. 1.

We were dressed in the required dust-resistance clothes and entered the greenhouse.

_________________________________, we entered the greenhouse. 2.

We entered the greenhouse along with Mrs. Yang and were followed by our classmates.

We entered the greenhouse along with Mrs. Yang, _____________________________. 3.

When I was taught how to distinguish different types of strawberries, I was amazed by

her proficient skills. _______________________________________, I was amazed by her proficient skills. 4.

I was determined to take good care of the tiny seedling. So I planted it in the flowerpot

carefully.

_______________________________________, I planted it in the flowerpot carefully. 5.

When the strawberry was watered regularly, it can grow well. ___________________________________, it can grow well. ii. Rewrite the following sentences by using adverbial clause or compound sentence. 1.

Interested in the growing environment of strawberries, we stood around the staff and

listened attentively.

________________________________________________________________________ 2.

Asked a good many questions, the guide explained to us patiently.

________________________________________________________________________ 3.

Attracted by the fascinating strawberries, we can't help eating the yummy berries.

________________________________________________________________________ 4.

Tired and hungry, we waited for having dinner.

________________________________________________________________________ 5.

Attracted by the appealing cherry, Mrs. Li presented them to us.

________________________________________________________________________ 8

Part V Task

Your foreign friend Jim expects to know about school activities in China. Write an essay in a group of four about 100 words to introduce your experience in this study tour. Try to use Past Participle as adverbial as many as possible. Dear Jim,

Learning that you're interested in school activities in China, I'd like to share with you some information.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours sincerely,

__________ Part VI

Self Assessment

Think about what you have learnt in this period. Then tick the boxes. I have learnt I’ve learnt the meaning and function of past participle as adverbial I’ve learnt the adj. phrase serving as adverbial

I can understand the reading materials I’ve learnt to cooperate and make contributions in group work.

Yes

No

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