Unit 3 Back to the past Grammar and usage: Predicative clauses 内容分析： 本板块围绕单元话题，引导学生在有关“史学家司马迁”的语篇这个观察、探究表语从句的使用情况，自主归纳其核心规则。再通过单句、语篇两个层面的巩固练习让学生内化新知；最后让学生运用所学，准确、恰当、得体地使用目标语法，完成具体情境中的写作任务，实现“形式———意义———使用”的统一。 教学目标： By the end of this section, students will be able to: identify the use of predicative clauses; work out the rules of predicative clauses; use predicative clauses to finish related tasks; write a short paragraph based on each of the situation using predictive clauses. 教学重难点： To summarize the general rules. To apply the rules correctly and properly. 教学过程： Step 1 Lead-in Show a picture to the student and ask a question: What do you know about the great historian Sima Qian Born in either 145 or 135 BCE, during China’s Han dynasty, Sima Qian is “the father of Chinese history”. Sima Qian wrote Shi Ji, or Records of the Historian. A Exploring the rules Step 2 Have students read the essay on page 34 and answer the following questions. 1. What is the essay about 2. What greatest achievement did Sima Qian make 3. What contributed to Sima Qian’s success Possible Answer: 1. The essay is about the great historian Sima Qian. 2. He wrote the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian). 3. His father’s influence, his learning and travelling and his perseverance. Step 3 Useful expression 对......感兴趣 take an interest in 周游全国 travel extensively across the country 获取广泛的信息 get a wide range of information 继他父亲之后成为太史令 succeed his father as Grand Historian 方便他接触...... facilitate his access to ... 整理可用的资源 sort out the available resources 需要艰苦的努力 require painstaking efforts 有效且高效地 effectively and efficiently 继续某事 carry on with sth. 被关进监狱 be put in prison 身体上和精神上 physically and mentally 无论顺境还是逆境 in good times or bad times Step 4 Have students find the sentences with predicative clauses in the essay and fill in the box of Part A on page 34 Learning and travelling were exactly what helped him in his later career as a historian. Answer His father’s dream was that one day he could write a great masterpiece recording what had happened in history. His chief concern was whether he could do his job more effectively and efficiently. 【设计意图：通过填空，让学生熟悉文本内容。进一步归纳将来进行时的用法。】 Step 5 Working out the rules We can use a noun clause as the predicative of a sentence. We can use that to introduce a predicative clause when the clause is a (1) _____. We can use whether to introduce a predicative clause when the clause is a (2) _____. We can use what, why, when, where, etc. to introduce a predicative clause when the clause is a (3) _____. Answer: (1) statement (2) yes-no question (3) wh-question Step 6 Go through the notes on page 96. B Applying the rules Step 7 Have students finish B1 on page 35. Complete the sentences ... ...
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