高中英语Module 4 Period 2 Grammar and Usage

Module Four Fine Arts—Western, Chinese and Pop Arts
Part One Teaching design
第一部分教学设计
Aims and requirements
●To enable the students to give opinions of their own orally on arts, encouraging them to try the vocabulary, patterns and everyday English in this unit
●To develop the students’ reading ability
●To help the students learn and use two grammars: --ing form and the infinitive as the object and –ing form as the subject
●To help the students to write a paragraph that gives opinions on paintings
Teaching procedures:
Period Two: Grammar and usage
Step1: General introduction to --ing form and the infinitive used as the object.(动名词和不定式作宾语的用法)
1. Warming up
Warm up by doing the exercises on page35.
1)Ex1: Read the sentences below and decide if the following statements are true or false.
2)Ex2: Underline the verbs that can be followed by the –ing form. The others are followed by the infinitive.
3) Ex3: Look at these verbal phrases. Match the two parts of the sentence.
2. Summary
e.g. Certain verbs can be followed only by the –ing form.
Certain verbs can be followed only by the infinitive.
Certain verbs can be followed both by the –ing form and the infinitive.
Make some practice on the grammar: do the Ex 4 on page 36
3. General introduction to –ing form and the infinitive used as object.
1) The verbs below must be followed by the infinitive when they are followed by a verb.
(A small poem may help you memorize these words more easily：决心学会想希望，拒绝设法愿假装。

主动答应选计划，同意请求帮一帮。

)
e.g. She pretended not to see me when I passed by.
We agreedto meet here but so far she hasn’t turned up yet.
In order to gain a bigger share in the international market, many state-run panies are striving to make their products more petitive.
2) The verbs below must be followed by –ing form when they are followed by a verb.
(Another small poem will help you to memorize these words.考虑建议盼原谅，承认推迟没的想。

避免错过继
续练，否认完成停欣赏, 不禁介意准逃亡。

)
e.g. The squirrel was lucky that it just missed catching.
I can hardly imagine Peter sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.
I would appreciate your calling back this afternoon.
Besides, some certain verb expressions must also be followed by –ing form. They are:
3) The verbs below can be followed both by the infinitive and –ing form, but the meanings they expressed are quite different.
e.g. ①She reached the top of the hill and stopped to rest on a big rock by the side of the path.
②----The light in the office is still on.
---Oh, I forgot to turn it off.
③---I usually go there by train.
---Why not try going by boat for a change?
④---You were brave enough to raise objections at the meeting.
---Well, now I regret having done that.
4) The verbs below can be followed both by the infinitive and –ing form, and the meanings they expresses are quite similar. Generally speaking, --ing form means the action happens usually while the infinitive means the action happens on a specific time or a specific place.
like; love; begin; start; prefer
e.g. I like swimming , but I don’t like to swim this afternoon.
I’d like to go swimming this afternoon.
5) Verbs such as allow; advise; forbid; permit are usually followed by –ing form, but if they are followed by a noun or a pronoun as its object, they must be followed by a infinitive as its plete object.
e.g. We don’t allow smoking here.
We don’t allow students to smoke.
6) “Need/require/want doing〞equals “need/require/want to be done /sb to do sth〞
Be worth +n/doing
Be worthy of being done/of +n/to be done
e.g. The windows requires/wants needs cleaning/to be cleaned.
The place is worth visiting.
The place is worthy of a visit/of being visited/to be visited.
Only one of these books is worth reading.
---What do you think of the book?
---Oh, excellent. It’s worth reading a second time.
7) Verbs such as“tell; show; understand; explain; teach; learn; advise; ask; decide; wonder; find out〞are followed by an infinitive, they usually means “how; whether; what; when; who +to do〞, but except “why〞.
e.g. He showed us how to do the work=He showed us how we should do the work
I don’t know what to do=I don’t know what I’ll do.
Can you tell me why do it?
8)“To〞must be omitted when the infinitive used after “but; other than; can’t choose but; can’t help but; can’t but 〞and the verbs before them any forms of “do〞.
e.g. We could do nothing but/other than wait.
We had nothing to do but/other than wait
We have no choice but to wait.
I can’t choose but laugh.
4. Practice about the NMET tests ( 相关高考题):
1). Do let your mother know all the truth. She appears _____ everything. (2001, 某某)
A. to tell
B. to be told
C. to be telling
D. to have been told
2). I really appreciate ______ to relax with you on this nice island. (2001, 某某)
A. to have had time
B. having time
C. to have time
D. to having time
3). In some parts of Landon, missing a bus means ______ for another hour. (2002, 某某)
A. waiting
B. to wait
C. wait
D. to be waiting
4). Having a trip abroad is certainly good for the old couple, but it remains ______ whether they will enjoy it.
( NMET 2002, )
A. to see
B. to be seen
C. seeing
D. seen
5). Victor apologized for ______ to inform me of the change in the plan. (2004,某某)
A. his being not able
B. his not to be able
C. his not being able
D. him to be not able
6). Having been ill in bed for nearly a month, he had a hard time ______ the exam. (2004, 某某)
A. pass
B. to pass
C. passed
D. passing
7). The man insisted ______ a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby. (2004, 某某)
A. find
B. to find
C. on finding
D. in finding
8). According to a recent U.S survey, children spend up to 25 hours a week _____ TV.〔2004某某)
A. to watch
B. to watching
C. watching
D. watch
9). I don’t want ______ like I’m speaking ill of any-body, but the manager’s plan is unfair. (2005, 某某)
A. to sound
B. to be sounded
C. sounding
D. to have sounded
10). He got well-prepared for the job interview, for he couldn’t risk _______ the good opportunity. 〔2005,
某某〕
A. to lose
B. losing
C. to be lost
D. being lost
(Keys: DBABC DCCAB)
Step 2: Grammar2-----The –ing form used as the subject.
1. Warming up
Warm up by reading, turn to page 27 and do the exercises.
1)Ex1: Read the contracts and answer the questions.
2)Ex2: Read the sentences and answer the questions.
3)Read the passage again. Choose three sentences in the past perfect tense and two in the past tense. Say
which uses they show.
2. Summary about the past perfect tense
We’ve studied the p ast perfect tense in junior school in the past.L et’s have a revision about the tenses in brief. When and where to use the past perfect tenses is the most important point. Now, we have a conclusion: The past perfect tense is used to talk about actions that happened before something else in the past. To form the past perfect tense, use:
had (simple past tense of have) + past participle of the verb
1.Practice again to distinguish between the past perfect tense and the past tense.
Turn to page 27 and do the exercises.
1)Ex3: plete these sentences with the verbs in brackets.
2)Ex4: plete these sentences with the verbs in brackets.
Summary: The past perfect tense is used to talk about actions that happened before something else in the past, while the past tense is used to talk about actions that happened in the past.
·They went to school at seven o’clock yesterday. (表示动作行为发生在过去)
·Theyhad finished their homework before they went to school at seven o’clock yesterday. 〔表示动作行为发生在过去的某事前〕
4. Practice about the NMET tests ( 相关高考题):
1) How can you possibly miss the news? It ______ on TV all day along. (2004, )
A. has been
B. had been
C. was
D. will be
2) I _____while reading the English textbook. Luckily, my roommate woke me up in time. (2004, )
A. had fallen asleep
B. have fallen asleep
C. fell asleep
D. fall asleep
3) I arrived late, I ______the road to be so icy. (2004, )
A. wouldn’t expect
B. haven’t expect
C. hadn’t expect
D. wasn’t expect
4) The crazy fans ______ patiently foe two hours and they would wait till the movie star arrived. (2004, 某某)
A. were waiting
B. had been waiting
C. had waited
D. would wait
5) The teacher, with 6 girls and 8 boys of her class, ______visiting a museum when the earthquake stuck. (2004, )
A. was
B. were
C. had been
D. would be
6) -----What were you doing when Tony phoned you?
-----I had just finished my homework and _____to take a shower. (2004, 某某)
A. had started
B. started
C. have started
D. was starting
7) Let’s keep to the point or we ______any decisions. ( NMET 2004 )
A. will never reach
B. have never reached
C. never reach
D. never reached
8) My mind was not on what he was saying , so I’m afraid I _____half of it. ( NMET 2004)
A. was missing
B. had missed
C. will miss
D. missed
9) -----I hear Jane has gone to the Holy island for her holiday.
-----Oh, how nice! Do you know when she _____? (2004, 某某)
A. was leaving
B. had left
C. has left
D. left
10) He kept looking at her, wondering whether he _______her somewhere. (2004, 某某)
A. saw
B. has seen
C. sees
D. had seen
(Keys: ACCBA DADDD)
Step 3: Homework
Read the passage on page 39 and answer the questions.
A reference answer:
1). What do we learn about Picasso’s blue period?
We learned from the passage that Picasso’s blue period means the pictures painted in that period showed poor, unhappy people and the main color was blue as well.
2). What do we learn about Picasso’s pink period?
We learned from 1904 to 1906 Picasso painted much happier pictures in the color pink, so people called it as “Picasso’s pink period〞.
3). What do we learn about Picassoand Cubism?
Picasso was one of the two main artists who started an important new artistic movement called Cubism. His first Cubist paintings were all painted in brown and grey. His greatest Cubist painting is Guernica, which was painted in Madrid in 1937。