1、The Third Period GrammarTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语take-off, leave out, rearranged, immense, impressive, landscape, scale, decadeb. 重点句子What we find out from space research is important for us on earth.Everyone agreed that it was the worst space accident ever. The question pe
2、ople are asking is “What is the space program going to cost?”The fact that we cannot travel faster than light means that it will take a long time to reach those planets? 2. Ability goals能力目标Enable the students to use the noun clauses correctly.3. Learning ability goals学能目标Help the students learn how
3、 to review the use of noun clauses.Teaching important points 教学重点Make the students to focus on the grammatical functions and features of noun clauses.Teaching difficult points 教学难点Enable the students to identify and use noun clauses properly.Teaching methods 教学方法Summarizing, practicing and group wor
4、k.Teaching aids 教具准备A projector, a computer and a blackboard.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step Revision1. Greetings2. RevisionT: Lets check the homework. First I will ask some of you to answer the questions in Activity 14 on Page 120. Suggested answers:1. A “space tourist” is a person who would
5、 pay to spend time in outer space on a spacecraft.2. Because the tickets are very expensive and few people can afford it.3. Because it landed for the second time after flying to the edge of space.4. No. Unlike rockets, which can be used only once, it can be used again and again.5. We passengers woul
6、d experience the floating effect, which happens when there is no (or low) gravity, for about six minutes. 6. No. Passengers would have to be very healthy and fit.7. There would be 15,000 space tourists by the year 2021.T: Now lets work in pairs and discuss these statements in Activity 15.Sample disc
7、ussion:For question 1: S1: If we had $15,000, I would spend it on a three-and-a-half hour trip on a spacecraft. We would experience the floating effect, which happens when there is no gravity. It must be a most thrilling trip in my life.S2: If we had $15,000 I would not spend it on a three-and-a-hal
8、f hour trip on a spacecraft. I would do something instructive and meaningful. Maybe, I would build a school for the poor children in the poverty-stricken areas. Or, I would award the scientists who made great contribution to curing deadly diseases.For question 2: S3: Passengers who would travel on S
9、paceShipOne should have a medical exam to make sure that they are healthy and fit enough to take the trip.S4: Passengers who would travel on SpaceShipOne also should have a special training so that they can know how to deal with the weightless conditions. Before they start the trip they need experim
10、ental flights as well.For question 3: S5: Yes. Because more and more people are interested in space trips, the space tourism will bring a lot of money. S6: If I were the leader of a government, I would not spend money developing space travel, because there are more important things to do, such as to
11、 build new roads or develop new fuels or medical science.For question 4: S7: I think there are two reasons. First, people are so encouraged by the successful space attempts; they think space trips would be no more dangerous than boarding on an airplane. Second, they believe that the cost of the trip
12、 will fall sharply and they wont pay much for a space travel. I feel excited about it.S8: I think thats all because of the advocacy of the commercials and the influence of some governments tendency. I am not feeling this way.Step Grammar (1)Features of noun clausesAsk the students to do Activity 1 i
13、n groups of four. Encourage the students to sum up the functions and features of noun clauses. T: For this class, we will focus on noun clauses. Please open your books to Page 60. Now practice Activity 1 in groups of four, work together and try to sum up the functions and features of noun clauses an
14、d then report them to the class. A few minutes later, ask the group leaders to report their summaries. At the same time, collect the information on the blackboard.T: Would any of the group representatives like to report your summary?S: Id like to have a try. After the discussion, we think that a nou
15、n clause can be the subject, such as in Sentences 1 and 3. Second, a noun clause can be the object of a sentence, such as in Sentences 4 and 5. Third, a noun clause can begin with a question word, such as in Sentence 6. Fourth, a noun clause can follow the verb be, such as in Sentence 6. Fifth, a no
16、un clause must include a verb, we can see from the underlined clauses in Activity 1. Practice & summary of the functions of NCAsk the students to do Activity 2 individually. After that check the answers with the whole class and do some extra exercises. At last ask the students to summarize the funct
17、ions of noun clauses.T: Now lets do Activity 2. Match the main clauses with the noun clauses. Make sure the completed sentences make sense.Give the students a few minutes to finish this practice. Then check the answers with them. Show the profile of Fei Junlong. He was born in May, 1965. He is from
18、Jiangsu Province. He joined the army in 1982. His father didnt know that he had decided to become one of the first Chinese astronauts in 1998. He was chosen as one candidate for space travel of Shenzhou VI in June, 2005. He has a 13-year-old son named Fei Di. His family supported him in spite of dan
19、ger. He trained hard in order to carry out the mission. He visited the Disneyland in Hong Kong with his partner Nie Haisheng and was warmly received by the people there.And then ask the students to use the given information to complete the following sentences. _ is new to me. I didnt know that _. Th
20、e fact that _ surprised me. What impressed me most was _. It is said that _.Ask some students to give their answers. S1: That he joined the army in 1982 before I was born is new to me.S2: I didnt know that he was chosen as one candidate for space travel of Shenzhou VI in June, 2005. S3: The fact tha
21、t he joined the army when he was only 17 years old surprised me.S4: What impressed me most was that his family supported him in spite of danger.S5: It is said that he visited the Disneyland in Hong Kong with his partner Nie Haisheng and was warmly received by the people there.Ask the students to sum
22、marize the functions of the noun clauses.T: Now look at the five sentences above and identify the functions of noun clauses above. Ss: Now we find that noun clauses can be used as the subject, the object, the predictive and the appositives of a complex sentence.T: Great! Congratulations! Youve got i
23、t.Discussion about whether “that” can be left out or not.Ask the students to do Activity 3 in pairs and then summarize the functions of noun clauses and decide the cases where “that” can be left out as well as the ones where “that” must be kept.T: Now lets come to Activity 3. Read the sentences and
24、then answer the questions below: A few minutes later, check the answers with the whole class.T: Who can answer Question (a)?S1: I think it is an easy question. Just now, through the examples, we could learn that the noun clauses with “that” can be the object, the subject and the appositive of the se
25、ntence. Besides, it can be the predicative. For example, what impressed me most was that his family supported him in spite of danger. In this sentence, that-clause is the predictive. T: Well. Your answer is perfect. Whod like to answer Question (b)?The same goes with the other questions. After finis
26、hing the questions, teachers and students work together to sum up the use of “that”.“That” can be left out when a that-clause is the object of a sentence such as in Sentences 3 and 5.Also, when “it” is put at the beginning of a sentence and the real subject clause is put after the verb, “that” can b
27、e omitted too. After this, ask the students to do Activity 4. A few minutes later, ask some students to report their answers.Step Grammar (2) This procedure is designed to train the students ability of arranging words in a proper order in noun clauses as well as their ability to use noun clauses in
28、a certain context.Word order in noun clauses and the use of NC in a passage.T: Now class, turn to Grammar (2) on Page 62, well get much closer to noun clauses. You know a word is to a sentence what a cell is to a body. In Activity 1, we are required to put the words into correct order. If necessary,
29、 you can ask your partner for help.A few minutes later, check the answers one by one. Then ask the students to go over the completed clauses again and find out the correct order of the words in noun clauses. Choose one of the students to come to the blackboard and take notes of his classmates summar
30、y. A sample summary:A question word or that often stands at the beginning. Then a subject follows. After the subject a verb and its object should be followed. The adverbials should be at the end. In order to make it easy for the students to learn we can use the Chart below.123A question word & thatT
31、he subjectThe verb45The object & the predictiveThe adverbialPractice Ask the students to practice Activity 2. This activity is designed to practice the noun clauses in a certain passage.T: Now its time for you to practise noun clauses in Activity 1 and put them into the correct places. Please make s
32、ure that each choice or decision should be based on the understanding of the passage. After finishing your task, make sure the passage is meaningful and logical. In order to get a better understanding of this passage. Id like you to refer to the following notes. Show the following notes:re-arrangeto
33、 change the arrangement of .Mars Roversspace shuttles traveling around the Mars.immensevery large, hugeimpressivemaking a strong impressionlandscapean expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single viewdecadea period of ten yearsthe Solar Systemthe sun together with the nine planets and all other c
34、elestial bodies that orbit the sun.A few minutes later, ask the students to report their answers.If there is enough time left, the teacher can ask the students to do the following exercises after class. No one can be sure _ in a million years.A. what man will look likeB. what will man look likeC. ma
35、n will look like whatD. what look will man like _ caused the accident is still a complete mystery.A. WhatB. ThatC. HowD. Where It worried her a bit _ her hair was turning grey.A. whileB. thatC. if D. for I drove to Zhuhai for the air show last week.Is that _ you had a few days off?A. why B. whenC. whatD. where Theres a feeling in me _ well never know what a UFO is never. A. that B. which C. of whichD. whatKey: A A B A AStep HomeworkAsk the students to1. Read the text on Page 64 and underline the noun clauses in this passage. 2. Do the activities on Page 115 in Workbook.
