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Unit 3 Australia Part One: Teaching Design Period 2: A lesson plan for Learning about Language (The Predicative ) Aims To help students revise The Predicative

To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures Procedures I. Warming up by talking about Life Style in Australia ●Australians are very friendly and helpful people, with a great sense of humor and a natural ability to tell jokes and play with words.

●The majority of Australians live in coastal areas because the interior of the country called "the Outback", can be a very arid area with many deserts and lack of water.

●Australians were born to compete! In reality, Australia is considered one of the most competitive nations on Earth.

●Fishing in Australia: Well, well, well, this is a big thing in Australia, and it is amazing how passionately Australians feel about fishing.

●Cinemas in Australia are disappearing from the streets and are moving to inside Shopping Centers. ●Australians are compulsive buyers having some of the biggest credit card debts in the world.

●Nothing demands as much attention from Australians as a House. It is as a national symbol of security.

●Going to the beach on weekends in Australia is a very popular exercise, just as much as going to the Shopping Center or doing any sport.

●If you are not going to a special event, the fashion in Australia is pretty casual and laidback.

●Australian Television: The salvation is the SBS channel, with lots of good programs and documentaries.

●Preservation of the environment is ten out of ten for Australia.

II. Discovering useful words and expressions An increase in vocabulary is an essential part of developing reading skills. Methods to build vocabulary include direct instruction, listening to literature, participating in discussions, and reading to build vocabulary based on context. You are now to do the three vocabulary exercises on page 24 and 25 to enlarge your vocabulary.

III. Revising The Syntax

Today we shall go over a very important part of English grammar—The Syntax ：Members of the Sentence

In English, there are seven members of the sentence:

the Subject: a member of sentence which describe 'who' or 'what', and is usually undertaken by nouns, pronouns or their equavilents. E.g.

The Sun rises from the east.

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the Predicate: it describes the action or situation of the subject, and usually undertaken by verbs or verb phrases, e.g.

They study very hard.

the Predicative: it describes the quality, feature, state or identity, and form compound predicate with linking verbs. It is usually undertaken by nouns, pronouns and adjectives or their equivalents, e.g.

That river is very deep.

the Object: it shows the object or content of the action of a transitive verb, or is put after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase. It is usually undertaken by a noun or pronoun or their equivalents, e.g.

We all like him.

the Complement: it is a supplement of the subject or the object, and is usually undertaken by an adjective or a noun or other proper structures, e.g.

We consider this task very important.

the Attribute: it modifies or restricts nouns, and is usually undertaken by adjectives or their equivalent structures, e.g.

This is a difficult problem.

the Adverbial: it modifies verbs, adjectives, adverbs or the whole sentence, and is usually undertaken by a adverb or its equivalent structures, e.g.

He runs fast. IV. Revising useful structures You shall go over the text Glimpses of Australia and others to underline all the predicatives.

Now it’s time to do exercises 1, 2, and 3 on page 26.

IV. Closing down by talking about what you can do to learn English grammar Be aware of grammar.

Read a lot of English books. Concentrate on the aspects of grammar you personally find most difficult. If you don't like to do grammar exercises or to be taught grammar, then it's more important that you follow the advice in the paragraphs above. If you do like to do grammar exercises, then go ahead.

Learn the common irregular verbs.

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