【优选整合】高中英语人教版必修4 Unit 1 Women of achievement period2 教案1

Period 2Learning about Language
The part of vocabulary learning mainly involves some systematic knowledge about word-formation as well as mastering important vocabulary and phrases. In grammar learning we focus on subject-verb agreement and help students discover the rules to decide the number for a collective noun. There are accompanying exercises. Systematic explanation shall be given help consolidate the knowledge acquired.
Step 1 Noun suffixes in word formation
1. Brainstorm: word formation
T: We know that Jane Goodall has done a lot for the chimps. She has argued for the chimps to be left in the wild. That is to say, what has she made for the chimps to be left in the wild?
Ss: Arguments.
T:(writes argue and argument on the blackboard and underlines -ment) Good. She did a lot and finally achieved her goal. That is to say, she made...?
Ss: She made achievements.
T:(writes achieve and achievement on the black board and underlines -ment) Good.
Now let’s have a look at the blackboard. Can you see anything in common in the two pairs of words?
S: Yes. The noun “argument”comes from the verb “argue”, adding “-ment”. The noun “achievement”comes from the verb “achieve”, adding “-ment”too.We can see “-ment”can be added to a verb to make a noun.
T: Very good. You’ve got very keen eyes. This way to form a new word is called word formation. Here, “-ment”is called a suffix, which can be added to another word to form a new word. Do you want to know more about suffixes?
Ss: Yes.
T:OK. Today we will talk about suffixes which can make another word into a noun. We call them noun suffixes.
2. Introducing more noun suffixes.
T: Now please have a look at the screen. Here are some groups of verbs. Say their meanings, please.
(Ss say the meanings of the verbs.)
T:Good.What about their nouns?Can you tell me?
Ss:(say the nouns)
T:What is in common among these words?
Ss:Suffix “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion”or “-ation”is added to the verb to make a noun.
T:Very good.So we can see “-ion”,“-tion”,“-sion”and “-ation”are some of the noun suffixes.Do you know more suffixes? Can you give me some examples?
S :Let me have a try. If I feel bad, that is to say,I have a feeling which is bad.If the word means right, that is to say the word have the meaning which is right. So we can see,“-ing”is also a noun suffix.
T:(writes “feel”, “feeling”, “mean”and “meaning”on the blackboard and underlines “-ing”)Terrific job. Are there any other nouns with “-ing”?
Ss: Warning, finding etc.
3.Practice
Check exercise 1 on Page 4.Show the table on the screen and get the students to say the answers aloud in chorus so that everyone will be aware of the suffixes. If they have any questions,give further explanation.
4 Summary
T:Now we can see it is not really difficult to remember words as long as we master some rules. With the knowledge of word formation, we can enlarge our vocabulary. Today,we focus our attention on the Noun Suffix. In fact there are much more suffixes in English,
Step 3 Discovering useful structures (Subject-verb agreement)
1.Brainstorm Subject-verb agreement by giving simple examples.
T: Now watch me. What am I doing?(draws a picture on the blackboard)
Ss: You are drawing on the blackboard.
T:Yes. The teacher is drawing on the blackboard.(Writes the sentence “The teacher is drawing on the blackboard”.) What about you? What are you doing?
Ss: We are watching and listening to you.
T: (Writes the sentence “We are watching and listening to you.”)
Now please have a look at these two sentences. Can we say the teacher are drawing or we is watching and listening to the teacher?
Ss: No.
T: Why?
Ss: There are some rules for us to follow when we write sentences.
T:You are right. When we write a sentence the predicate should agree with the subject, which is called subject-verb agreement. If we can not apply the rules correctly, we might not get ourselves understood.
2 Instruct the students to discover the rules for subject-verb agreement.
T:There are three main principles for us to follow.语法一致就近一致意义一致
Show the students some sentences and get them to complete the sentences by filling in the predicate. Get them to observe the sentences and sum up the rules.
3. Consolidation
1) Get the students to do exercises 2 on Page 5.
Dear Xiaoyu,
I think everyone is (is/are) settled in London,although neither the weather nor the food is(is/are) good.Either rain or snow fell every day this week but everybody has (has/ have) tried to ignore it.My friends and my mother have(has/have) visited the theatre almost every night.None of them carries(carry/carries) an umbrella but nobody has(has/have) let that affect their activities.We are enjoying ourselves so much that I wonder if anybody wants(want/wants)to come home.This group of tourists love (love/loves) the culture and is (is/are) happy in England and would like to visit London every summer!
See you soon,
Dong Xianshun Step 4 Homework
1.Page 43 Ex 1 Choose the best answers for the blanks.
2.Page 44 Ex 2 Choose the right words and complete the short texts.。