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课件网) Unit 5 A Delicate World Using Language 新外研选择性必修Book 2 - 1. What's in the picture 图画里是什么 -- _____ is a cat. 是一只猫。 2. _____often rains here in summer.这里夏天时常下雨。(指天气) 3. make _____成功，做到 take_____easy 放轻松 4. _____ turned out that they developed an immunity to the virus. 5._____was I that/who met him. 6.No visitors would think it _____ (surprise) that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 7.Experts felt it necessary _____(come) up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island. 8. This incident made it clear_____the rat, mouse and rabbit problem needed solving once and for all. 9. …but we humans owe it _____ the island to give it a happy ending. It It it it It It surpring to come that to Learning objectives In this class, you will distinguish the usage of it as an empty object by analysing the sentences from reading passage； practise using it as an empty object correctly. Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Presentation a. No visitors would think it surprising that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. b. No visitors would think that island being a UNESCO World Heritage Site is surprising. 1. What does “it” refer to in sentence (a) In sentences (a) refers to “that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site” Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Presentation c. Experts felt it necessary to come up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island. d. Experts felt to come up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island was necessary. 2. What does “it” refer to in sentence (c) In sentences (c) refers to “to come up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island ” Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Presentation a. No visitors would think it surprising that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. b. No visitors would think that island being a UNESCO World Heritage Site is surprising. c. Experts felt it necessary to come up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island. d. Experts felt to come up with a plan to remove all the rabbits from the island was necessary. 3. What is the difference between the sentences in each group When the object of a sentence is a that-clause (b) or an infinitive(d), we sometimes use “it” as an empty object and put the real object later to keep balance. For example, sentence (a) uses it as the empty object of “think”, referring to the real obiect: “the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site”. Sentence (b) uses that-clause as the object of “think”. 8. This incident made it clear that the rat, mouse and rabbit problem needed solving once and for all. 9. ...but we humans owe it to the island to give it a happy ending. Notes: To balance sentence structure, the author used an empty object to replaces too long infinitive structures or object clause. It as an empty object it 作形式宾语 1. We think it our duty to clean our classroom ... ...
