【精品】高中英語（人教大綱）第三冊：Unit8 Learning a foreign language(第三課時)

1、The Third PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Review the useful words and expressions:academic,acquire acquisition,adapt,adopt,awful,data,experiment with,instruct,make sense,translator,take risks.2.Review the Subjunctive Mood.Teaching Important Points:1.Enable the students to remember and master the useful words

2、and expressions,especially how to use their different forms.2.Special verb forms used in the subjunctive mood and when to use the subjunctive mood.Teaching Difficult Point:How to judge when the subjunctive mood is needed and how to choose proper verb forms.Teaching Methods:1.Practice to get the stud

3、ents to use words and expressions freely.2.Comparison to get the students to have a clear idea of what they should master.3.Pair work or group work to make every student to join in the classroom activities.Teaching Aids:1.a computer2.a courseware3.a blackboardTeaching Procedures:Step Greetings and R

4、evisionTeacher greets the whole class as usual.T:Lets check your homework first.S1 and S2,come to the blackboard and write your homework on it.Step Word Study (Teacher and students learn the new words of this period together.)T:Now lets do Language Study.(Show the following on the screen.)There are

5、some explanations on the screen.Read the explanations to find which words from this unit can match the definition given.Pair work or goup work.Find a new word to match the definition.1. _extremely bad or unpleasant terrible.2. _someone whose job is to put written words into another language.3. _to g

6、ain knowledge or learn a skill.4. _the ability to go on doing something for a long time without getting angry or annoyed.5. _feeling worried and uneasy.6. _not feeling worried or troubled.7. _information or facts with numbers for making decisions.8. _someone whose job is to put spoken words into ano

7、ther language.(Students discuss this part for a few minutes and teacher goes among the students to help them when it is necessary.)T:(A few minutes later.)Are you prepared for it?Ss:Yes,we are.T:Now who will give us the first two words?S3:“Awful” and “Translator”.T:Is he right?Ss:Yes,he is.T:Which w

8、ords can match the third and the fourth explanation?S4:“Acquire” and “Patience”.T:Do you know the noun of the verb “acquire”?S4:Yes.Its noun is “acquisition”.T:Who can give us the fifth and the sixth word?S5:“Anxious” and “Secure”.T:Can you tell us the adjectives of “patience” and the noun of “anxio

9、us”?S5:“Patient”and“anxiety”.T:Please pay attention to the pronunciation of the two words:“acquisition”and“anxiety”.Please read after me, .Suggested answers from 7 to 8:7.Data8.InterpreterT:Here is an interesting story about a French language expert on Page 69.When you finish reading the story,youll

10、 know something we shouldnt do in learning a foreign language.First,choose a suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks,paying attention to their proper forms.You can have a discussion with your classmates.A few minutes later,well check the answers.Suggested answers:(1)acquisition(2)academic(3)tr

11、anslator(4)adopted(5)instruct(6)experienced with(7)data(8)adapt(9)take risks(10)awful(11)make sense(12)acquireT:What can we learn from the story?S6:Only reading a grammar book or remembering new words is not the best way to learn a foreign language.T:Quite right.We should remember this and avoid its

12、 happening.Step GrammarT:Lets review the Subjunctive Mood().Before doing exercises,lets complete the form and the sentence patterns.(Teacher writes the following on the blackboard.)The Subjunctive Mood1.Principle Clause(main verbs)Conditional Clause(main verbs)Present conditionalPast conditionalFutu

13、re conditional2.S.+wish+that-clauseS.+V.3.Its time that-clauseS.+V.(Teacher asks some students to complete the form and the sentence patterns.The answers:Cf:The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard.)T:What do I really mean when I say,“My Dad would be able to buy a car if he had enough money”?S7:Y

14、ou mean“My Dad doesnt have enough money,so he cant buy a car.”T:Very good.Please turn to Page 69.Look at Exercise 1.Change these sentences into the subjunctive mood.Pair work or group work.Suggested answers:1.I would be able to relax if I had not piles of homework to do.2.My wife would not have many

15、 friends in the neighbourhood if she were not easygoing.3.Many large areas would not have been saved from flooding in 1998,if it had not been for the help of tens of thousands of PLA soldiers.4.Ben would not have had a traffic accident if he had not driven too fast on his way to Florida.5.I would ha

16、ve lent my car to George that morning if the tyre had not been flat.6.Alice would not have been fired by her boss if she had been familiar with the software.7.My spoken English would not have been improved a lot if I had not gone to the English Corner very often.8.I would speak English as fluently a

17、s my cousin if I had been brought up in Britain.T:Look at Exercise 2 on Page 70.Please rewrite the sentences,well do it orally first.You should look at the examples to make sure you know what you should do.After they are finished,have a discussion with your classmates to see whether they are right.(

18、After a few minutes.)T:Have you finished?(Ss:Yes.)Please read your sentences to us.One student,one sentence.S8:I wish I had heard from Lily.S9:I wish I could travel to the moon.S10:I wish there werent so much work to do.S11:I wish I had not eaten so much chocolate in my teens.S12:It is high time tha

19、t we put an end to this silly argument.S13:It is time that you went to school.Step ConsolidationT:Now lets have a test.Fill in the blanks with the verbs in the brackets.Pay attention to their tense,voice and mood.Write your answers on a piece of paper,and then exchange your answers with your partner

20、 to check them.Well check the answers in the end.Suggested answers:(1)would not have woken up(2)had not stayed up(3)had got up(4)would not have ridden(5)had followed(6)would have spent(7)would not have hit(8)had not noticed(9)would have knocked(10)would not have been injured(11)would have been taken(12)had been(13)would have been found(14)would be(15)had joinedStep Summary and HomeworkT:In this class,weve reviewed some useful words and expressions and th