2019-2020年高中英语Unit2SailingtheoceansLearningaboutLanguage

2019-2020年高中英语Unit2SailingtheoceansLearningaboutLanguage Part One: Teaching Design

Period 2: A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language

(The Predicate )

Aims

To help students revise the Predicate

To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions

To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

I. Warming up by reading aloud the text

Reading aloud is great for practicing pronunciation, intonation, fluency and linking. I find it's often best to let you the students read aloud, just so that you can improve on your English.

Now go to page 12 to read aloud the text to the recording.

II. Discovering useful words and expressions

Learning how to build a better vocabulary can be a pleasurable and profitable investment of both your time and effort. At least fifteen minutes a day of concentrated study on a regular basis can bring about a rapid improvement in your vocabulary skills, which in turn can increase your ability to municate by writing, conversing, or making speeches. Acquiring a large vocabulary can benefit you in school, at work, and socially. It will enable you to understand others' ideas better and to have the satisfaction or getting your thoughts and ideas across more effectively.

Now let’s go on to do the four vocabulary exercises on page 15 and 16.

III. Learning about predicates in grammar

Predicate in traditional grammarIn traditional grammar, a predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the subject, which the predicate modifies). The predicate must contain a verb and can contain objects or phrases governed by the verb. The predicate provides information about the subject, such as what the subject is doing or what the subject is like.

The relation between a subject and its predicate is sometimes called a nexus.

A Predicate Nominal is a noun phrase that functions as the main predicate of a sentence, such as "George III is the king of England", the king of England being the Predicate Nominal. The subject and predicate nominal must be connected by a linking verb, also called a copula.

A Predicate Adjective is an adjective that functions as a predicate, such as "Jenny is attractive", attractive being the Predicate. The subject and predicate adjective must be connected by a linking verb, also called copula.

IV. Revising useful structures

You are going to read the text on page 12 SAILING THE OCEANS to underline all the predicates to understand their structures and functions.