Teaching Design

Grammar — The Attributive Clause Revision

I. Teaching aims:

1. Help students understand what the Attributive Clause is and its function.

2. Enable students to use relative pronouns (who, whom, which, that, whose) and relative adverbs (when, where,why) in the Attributive Clause properly.

3. Encourage students to write using the Attributive Clause.

II. Teaching important and difficult points:

Enhance students’ proficiency and accuracy in using the relative pronouns to write the Attributive Clauses.

III. Teaching methods:

 Audio-lingual method; Cooperative learning; Group discussion; Task-based teaching method

IV. Teaching steps:

Step I：Lead in

Activity 1 Enjoy the music“She”. And Appreciate Proverbs  

God helps those who help themselves.

He who laughs last laughs best.

Everything is ready, and all that we need is an east wind.

He who is content is always happy.

Purpose: Enable students to discover the usage of relative pronouns by themselves and feel the power of the proverbs.

Step II：Discovery 

Activity 2 Find out the main sentences and attributive clauses.

1.Students look at the pictures, and ask students to find out the antecedents and relative pronouns.   

I went to Guangzhou which is a beautiful city.

The concert which was held there was successful.

Jason Zhang who is a star can sing and dance.

2. Enjoy an interesting video and discover the background and the structure and attributive clauses.

Activity 3  Conclusion  （fill in the blanks）                      

Purpose: Enable students to have a more clear understanding about the usage of relative pronouns. And the video attracts students’ interest, which makes the class interesting.

Activity 4  Guessing game and competition.

 Look at the pictures and make sentences using Attributive (Relative) Clause.

Activity 5  Conquer Key & Difficult Points

❶ Difficulty1:Relative pronoun or adverb?

1.I’ll never forget the days__________ we worked together.                       

2.I’ll never forget the days ___________ we spent together.                        

3.I went to the place ___________ I visited ten years ago.

4.I went to the place __________I worked ten years ago.                  

5.This is the reason ___________ he was late.                  

6.This is the reason ___________ he gave.

❷ Difficulty 2: that or which ?       that in Attributive (Relative) Clause.

1. Is there anything that I can do for you?            A.主句是以who或which开头的特殊疑问句 

                                                  时，只用that

2. The first thing that we should do is to help him.     B.先行词既有人又有物,只用that       

3. This is the best foreign film that I have ever seen.   C.当先行词是something, anything, nothing,                     

4. That’s the very tool that we are looking for.          everything, all, few, little, much等，用that                                                                          

5. They talked about the things and friends         D.当先行词是序数词或形容词最高级,that they could remember.                              E.当先行词被the only, the very, the same,   

6. Who is the man that is standing over there?         the last所修饰时，只用that

❸ Difficulty 3: prep.+which/whom

1.The man __________ he learns much  is generous.

2. He studied at the local high school, _________ he had great fun with his classmates.

3. In Asia there are many countries, ________ China is the largest one.

4.On the way home, Anna saw a snake, _________ she was very afraid.

Purpose: The activities help students overcome the difficulties. Stimulate students’ curiosity and interest, makes them realize that knowledge is endless and encourage them to enjoy learning.

Step III：Practice

Activity 6  Practice makes perfect.

1.从洞里伸出来(stick out)的邓超被打到了。

Deng Chao ___________________________________ has been hit.

2. 强壮的李晨正在锻炼，身上载有5个人。

Li Chen _________________________is building up his body ____________ ___________________________.

3. 帽子是红色的那个女人是Baby, 邓超和鹿晗在她旁边跳舞。

The lady _______________ is Baby, ____________Deng Chao and Lu Han are dancing.

Step V: Discussion and writing.

Activity7 Work in groups.

Write an article with the title “A letter to Tom” with the given sentences, using attributive clauses.  (Use as many attributive clauses as possible)   

 A Letter to Tom

我收到了你上周的来信。谢谢你在信中寄的照片。我常常想起我们一起度过的时光。和我们一起玩的那些小伙伴还好吗？另外，我有一本绿色封面的书落在你那了。请帮我寄来.

 Purpose: Writing is one of the most important skills, but it is always ignored by students. Writing a letter to father is an extension of this period, which not only enables students to express their love but also improves their writing ability by using the Attributive Clause.

Summary: Ask a volunteer to fill in the table on the blackboard and sum up.

Homework:

1. Share your introduction with your classmates in other groups.  

2. Exercises 3&4 on P44.

StepⅥ: Blackboard design

The Attributive Clause

       Relative pronouns: who, whom, which, that, whose

        Relative adverbs: when, why, where

V. Teaching reflection

The designer wants to make grammar teaching full of love and fun. The clue is self discovery and cooperative learning. Students work in groups to discover the usage of relative pronouns and sum up. They also cooperate with each other. The teacher creates an atmosphere to direct students to master the usage of the Attributive Clause. Students are the real masters of the class.

In a word, by the drive of the students’ emotion, by means of cooperation, with the help of peers and under the guidance of the teacher, students will have a good train of the Attributive Clause and want to learn more.