Grammar Teaching—Subjunctive Mood

teaching plan for students

                                 

◆ Teaching Aims:

We are going to learn…

1. What is Subjunctive Mood?

2. When to use Subjunctive Mood?

3. Three sentence structures.

◆    Study and discover

Situation One

1. If I were 10 years younger, I would start all over again, but I am not.

2. If he were a bird, he would fly in the big blue sky, but he is not.

3. If he won the lottery, he would donate all the money to the Hope Project but he doesn’t.

Discover

(be contrary to :与……相反，与…..不符合)

Practice 1

Fill in the blanks to tell what the following people are thinking.

1.      Two-year-old: If I _____________(can) talk, I ________________(tell) my mother that I hate peas.

2.      14 year-old: I ________________(be) happier if I _____________(can) drive.

3.      16-year-old: If I _____________(have) a car, my friends and I _______________ (go) out every night.

4.      19-year-old: I _______________(attend) a private university if I ______________(have) a lot of money.

Situation two

1.      If we had had enough rain last year, we would have gained a good harvest, but we did not.

2.      If you had worked hard, you would have passed the final examination, but you did not.

3.      If I had had enough money the other day, I would have gone to the zoo with you, but I did not.

Discover

(be contrary to :与……相反，与…..不符合)

Practice 2

1.      I _________________ (study) English when I was a child if I _________________(know) the importance of it.

2.      I didn’t see your sister at the meeting. If she ________________ (come), she_________________ (meet) my brother.

3. Miss Jiang explained the homework to the class yesterday. If Alfred ____________________(pay) more attention at the time, he ______________________(not miss) her instructions.

Situation Three

1.      If they should see /saw /were to see him tomorrow, they would invite him home, but they will not see him.

2.      If it were/should be fine tomorrow, I would go on a trip, but it will not be fine.

3.      If she were to try/should try/tried again next time, she would succeed, but she will not try again.

Discover

(be contrary to :与……相反，与…..不符合)

Practice 3

1. If it __________________________ (rain) tomorrow, we ________________ (not go) out.

2. I don’t like exams. If there _________________ (be) no exam tomorrow, I ___________________(see) a movie.

3. Len doesn’t think he will ever win a poetry competition. If, by chance, he ________________(win), he ____________ (spend) the prize money on a computer.

Conclusion

◆    Practice

Do you ever wonder what your life would have been like if you had been alive 100 years ago? If you ______________ (live) around 1900 inthe U.S, you __________________ (earn) about $200-$400 ayear. You probably __________________(not graduate) from high school. Only 6 percent of Americans __________ (have) a high school diploma at that time. If you ___________ (be) a child living in a city, you ______________ (have) to work in a factory for 12-16 hours a day.

With the rapid development of the technology, we seem to have got used to the comfortable life we are living. If there __________ (be) no electricity now, there __________ (not be) any light in the houses during the night. If the Internet ______________(use) so widely, the world ______________ (not connect) so closely.

Now, we are depending so much on technology that it is hard to imagine what our life ________________ (be) like in the next century if there _______________(be) no technology at all.

◆    Oral Practice

Choose any of the following topics to discuss in your group.

Topic 1: What would you do if you could predict the future?

Topic 2: What would (not) have happened if the terrible earthquake hadn’t hit SichuanProvincein 2008?

Topic 3: If you were a volunteer of the 2010 Jieyang Asian Games, what would you do?

◆    Summary

What have you learnt today?

1.      What is Subjunctive Mood?

2.      When to use Subjunctive Mood?

3.      The three sentence structures of Subjunctive Mood.

◆    Homework

1.      Grammatical filling

There was a woman who was in such a hurry to go to the airport. She was so absorbed in her own thoughts that she was not aware they were going on ___31___ different route. Suddenly, a man went inside the cab and took her handbag ___32___ she placed her visa, passport, and all her money ___33___ the trip. She kept on thinking how ___34___ (luck) she was to be in that situation. That very same night, she heard a piece of ___35___ (shock) news. Flight 230 crashed! It was the plane that she was supposed to board into. If she ___36___ (lose) her precious belongings, she could have lost something far ___37___ important —her life!

Sometimes bad things really happen. We fail our exams, or get rejected by others. There are times when nothing seems to go our way. So ___38___ do we do about it? We must take all these frustrations out of our chest and start all over again with the consistent faith that we ___39___ (get) what we deserved.

If you failed the exams, maybe you’d be more successful and much happier in ___40___ field. If you were rejected by your friend, there are plenty of others out there who are much more deserving of your love and affection. Don’t waste your time and energy on things that can’t be changed.

2.      Writing

If you were a teacher,

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