Language Focus: The Object Clause
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing aims
Have the students know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:
1. Revise some useful expressions in Unit 4.
2. Train the students’ listening ability by doing listening work.
3. Revise the grammar: the Object Clause.
4. Write a short passage to train the students' writing ability.
II. Revision
Have a dictation. Dictate some useful expressions. Then ask the students to make sentences using the useful expressions:
1. as soon as possible;
2. That would be fine;
3. Keep doing something;
4. Hurry up;
5. Fall fast asleep;
6. Wake up.
For example:
1. Please come back as soon as possible.
2. Let’s go. That would be fine.
3. He kept me reading the passage for a long time.
4. Hurry up, or you will miss the train.
5. He listened to the light music and fell fast asleep.
6.I woke up early this morning.
My mother woke me up early this morning.
III. Listening
Listening Cassette. Books closed. Play the tape once or twice for the students to listen and do Exercise I in the workbook. Make sure the students can understand them. Show one or two students’ passage on the slide, check with the whole class.
IV. Practice
Part 2. Ask and answer in pairs with the help of the table in the book. Then pass the passage on to the students next to them, see if the students can use the Object Clause freely.
V. Write
Part 4. We can fill in the form in class. Get the students to give out their ideas about the travelling.
If there is no time, we can leave the writing work as homework.
VI. Game
Part 5. Play this game in class if time permits. Get one student to say a sentence, and he can't let all the students hear clearly, then one student may say: I can't hear him, another student may repeat the sentence, Begin with: He says that…
VII. Checkpoint 4
Go though Checkpoint 4 in the usual way. Explain any problems that the students may have. Get the students to go over the grammar notes. Make sentences using the useful expressions.
VIII. Workbook
For Exercise 2, have the students read the long sentences, first listen to the teacher, then get them to read individually .Pay attention to the sentence stress, pause and intonation.
For Exercise 3, have the students make up the sentences, see who can make the most sentences, and make correct sentences.
Do Exercise 4 as homework.
IX. Summary
Exercise in class
短文改错
在下列短文中，每行的错误不多于一处，有的没错，如有错，请找出并改正，如没有错，请打“√”。
Last week my parents and I took a two-day trip to Emei
Mountain in Sichuan. As everyone knows, it’s famous 1. ____________
mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. The weather 2. ____________
was fine. It was about noon we arrived at the foot of 3. ____________
the mountain. The three of them were very excited. As we 4. ____________
climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples 5. ____________
and told stories. On the way up I was busy taking picture 6. ____________
since the scenery was so beautiful. The time passes quickly. 7. ____________
Evening came down. We spent the night in a hotel at the top 8. ____________
of the mountain. The food was expensive and the service was 9. ____________
good. I was so tired that I fell asleep at the moment my 10. ____________
head touched the pillow.
Answers：
Last week my parents and I took a two-day trip to Emei
Mountain in Sichuan. As everyone knows, it’s ∧famous 1. _____a_______
mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. The weather 2. _____√______
was fine. It was about noon ∧ we arrived at the foot of 3. ___when______
the mountain. The three of them were very excited. As we 4. ____us _______
climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples 5. ____visited____
and told stories. On the way up I was busy taking picture 6. ____ pictures__
since the scenery was so beautiful. The time passes quickly. 7. ____passed____
Evening came down. We spent the night in a hotel at the top 8. ____ down ____
of the mountain. The food was expensive and the service was 9. _____but _____
good. I was so tired that I fell asleep at the moment my 10. ____ at _____
head touched the pillow.
X. Homework
Finish off the exercises in the workbook.