Unit 3 Back to the past Task
Teaching Objectives:
1 to teach and instruct students some specific procedures when trying to achieve a goal
2 to make students be aware of the appropriate ways of performing each individual procedure and master the skills
3 to make sure students have opportunities to combine the skills they have learned with reality
4 to aid students to choose and organize the information they have got and help them complete their products
5 to enhance students’ overall abilities and improve their integrated skills
Important and difficult points:
Make students learn how to write an outline of a speech and how to host a talk about a historical event.
Teaching procedures:
Part A: object complement
Step 1 lead in
Revise the grammar items in this unit (object complements, either…or…and neither…nor…, and subject-verb agreement).
Situation 1:
------ Did you find anything special
when you went to the classroom?
------ No, I didn’t.
------ You found the door open, didn’t you?
------ Oh, yes. But I found nobody in the classroom.
l Position
V. + Object + object complement
eg: The inspector shot the drug-dealer dead.
(= The drug-deal was shot dead by the inspector.)
Step 2 learn the usage of object complement
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Situation 2:
------ What do you think about her performance?
------ We consider that her performance is a big success.
We consider her performance a big success. )
------ What do people think about dogs?
------ People believe that dogs are honest.
( People believe dogs to be honest. )
l Usage An object complement , which gives information about the object, can be a noun, a noun phrase, an adjective,
a to-infinitive, a bare infinitive, or a prepositional phrase.
Step 3 Practise in oject complement.
------What do you think about Harry Potter?
------I find it ________________________.
------What happened to the man?
------The man was kept _________.
Step 4: Use the words and phrases in the box to complete the following
• Professor Zhang is a great archaeologist. His work has made the archaeological discovery of Loulan (1)_______________. We believe him (2)__________________________ as his work seems never ending.
• We have all found Professor Zhang (3)______________. He took the time to answer all our questions and his answers were very wise. We have found him (4)_________________.
• I walked in the desert with the other students this afternoon and we found the desert (5)_______________. The heart almost drove me (6)_____________even though I was wearing very thin cotton trousers to keep me (7)__________. It seems that I shouldn’t have brought all those thick clothes with me. I should have left them(8)____________________.
Part B: either…or and neither … nor
Step 1: the use of either …or and nether …nor
Situation
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------ I have got one ticket for Liu Xiang’s 110m
hurdle race to be held in Nanjing.
_______ you _____ your desk-mate can have it.
------ Is it on Saturday or on Sunday?
------ It is on next Monday.
------ Oh, what a pity. I am afraid __________ I ____ my desk-mate can enjoy it.
Step 2: summary:
(1) Either … or…
can be used to express the idea of alternatives.
eg: You can choose either A or B, which means you have two
choices, i. e, you can choose any one of the two.
(2) Neither … nor…
can be used to join two negative ideas together.
eg: Neither A nor B is proper in question one, which means
A is not proper, and B is not proper either.
§ Situation
------ Whose fault is it? ( not yours / not mine )
------ It is neither your fault nor mine. It’s your friend Jack’s fault.
Part C: Subject-verb agreement
Step 1: Practise and summarize:
Fill in the blanks with the right verb forms:
1.The people’s republic of China _____(be) founded in 1949.
2.The food they offered on the plane ______(be) delicious.
The verb should be singular if the subject is.
3.Two hours_____(be) not enough for so much homework.
4.Twenty thousand dollars_____(be) a large amount of money to me.
The verb should be singular if the subject is a phrase of measurement,money or distance.
All of us _____ __ ( attend) the lecture about Pompeii .
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Most of the lecture ______(be) about how the ancient city was discovered.
I spent only 30 yuan buying books and the rest of money_______(be) spent on my food.
When the subject is all of/ some of /half of+noun/pronoun, the verb agrees with the noun and pronoun.
An expert with some assistants_____ (be) sent to work in Gansu Province.
No on except two teachers________( know) the secret.
Xiao Ming as well as his parents_____(be) interested in music.
When the subject followed by with/ together with/as well as/, the verb agrees with the subject.
Either the team leader or the guides _____ (be) looking after the students.
Neither noodles nor rice______(be) delicious today.
Either you or the headmaster_______(be) to hand out prizes to those gifted students at the meeting.
Not only you but also I_______(be) puzzled at her worried look.
When neither…nor/ either…or/ not only…but also…are used to join the subjects of a sentence, the verb agrees with the subject closest to it.
His family_____(be ) to move to the countryside next month.
His family _____all (be) fond of popular music.
Our school ______(be) a key school in Jiangsu Province.
Our school ______doing (do) morning exercises now on the playground.
When the subject is a group noun like: class/ family/ government/ team… , we use a singular verb if the noun identifies a singular or unit, or a plural verb if it identifies a number of individuals.
Step 2: Exercise.
1. Each of you ______ responsible for the accident.
a. am b. be c. is d. are
2. Each man and woman ______ the same rights.
a. has b. have c. had d. is having
3. Every means ______ tried but without much result.
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a. has been b. have been c. are d. is
4. There ______ in this room.
a. are too much furniture b. is too many furnitures
c. are too much furnitures d. is too much furniture
5. The manager or his assistant ______ planning to go.
a. were b. are c. was d. be
6. Not only I but also David and Iris ______ fond of playing basketball.
a. am b. is c. are d. was
7. Neither Tom nor his parents ______ at home.
a. is b. are c. has d. was
8. Either the dean or the principal ______ the meeting.
a. attends b . Attend
c. are attending d. have attended
9. ______ was wrong.
a. Not the teacher but the students
b. Both the students and the teacher
c. Neither the teacher not the students
d. Not the students but the teacher
10. “______ twenty dollars a big sum to her?”
“I suppose so.”
a. Will be b. Is c. Are d. Were
Homework:
Do exercise in the work book.
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