《牛津高中英语》 (模块九·高三上学期) Unit 4 Grammar and usage Analysis of complicated sentences
一、Teaching goals
1. Target language: new words and sentence structure
2. Ability goals: Enable students to learn what simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and complex- compound sentences are then analyze and use them.
3. Learning ability goals: Students are expected to apply what they have learned correctly.
二、Teaching important and difficult points
1. Elicit students how to analyze complicated sentences.
2. Students can apply the knowledge correctly and know the reasons. 三、Teaching aids A multimedia.
四、Teaching procedures and ways
StepⅠ Revision and lead-in
1. Use the idiom ‘as wise as Solomon’ by praising one student who has finished the task that the teacher gave.
Enlarge the student’s knowledge. Explain it’s an idiom in Bible, and in it Solomon was the third king of Israel who was known for his wisdom.
Encourage students to enrich their knowledge after class by telling them if they are interested in Solomon, they can look up his information on the Internet, in the book and so on.
2. T: In the reading text, we’ve learnt what an idiom is. It’s in the first paragraph and there are three sentences in it. Who can recite volunteers?
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(Ask one student to recite and three students to write them on the blackboard) Step Ⅱ Grammar and usage
1. Ask the students to analyze the sentences on the blackboard then summary with the aid of the teacher.
1). In other words, its meaning can be completely different from the meaning of its components.
The sentence is a long simple sentence.
Every sentence of this type contains a subject and a predicate. In these sentences, it is useful to identify the subject and the predicate.
The subject is what the sentence is about and the predicate tells us something about the subject and always includes a verb.
●e.g. Islam was started about 1,400 years ago by a man called Muhammad. 2). An idiom is a group of words or an expression whose meaning often cannot be understood by looking at the meanings of the separate words in it.
The sentence is a Complex sentence. It is made up of a main clause and one subordinate (Attribute) clause.
A Complex sentence is made up of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. They are linked by subordinators(从属连词) such as because, when, where, if, since, that, unless, whereas, whose, while and although. Discuss
What kinds of Complex sentence do you know? 一、名词性从句
1、包括主语从句、宾语从句、表语从句、同位语从句 2、引导名词性从句的连接词可分为三类:
连接词: that, whether, if(不充当 从句的任何成分) 连接代词:what ,whatever, who, whoever, whom, whose, which 连接副词:when, where, how, why
●It is a pity that you didn't go to see the film. ●She did not know what had happened.
●The news that Tom would go abroad is told by him.
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二、定语从句
定语从句中的所有关系词不但有具体意义而且都在从句中担当一定的成分。 关系代词:who, whom, whose, which, that等。 关系副词:when, where, why等。 在定语从句中,关系副词=介词+which 三、状语从句 1、时间状语从句
1)由 as, while引导时,表示主句和从句的动作同时发生,或一个动作发生在另一个动作或过程中。
2)由 after, when引导时, 表示主句动作在从句后
3)由 before, when引导时,表示主句动作发生在从句动作前。
4) 由whenever, every/each time引导时, 表示主句动作以从句动作为条件而发生。 5)由as soon as引导时, 表示主句动作发生在从句动作的一瞬间后。
6)由just/hardly…when, no sooner…than引导时, 表示主句动作发生在从句动作的一瞬间之前。
● We can leave when you are ready.
● After she packed up her things, Mary went to book her ticket. 2.原因状语从句
由 because, as, since或复合连词now that, in that 等引导 3. 地点状语从句:由where, wherever引导。 4.条件状语从句
由 if, as (so) long as, unless 引导。 5. 目的状语从句
由 so that, in order that, in case等引导。 六、 结果状语从句
由 so that, so …that, such …that 引导。 七、让步状语从句
由 though, even though, however, no matter how/what/who等引导。 八、比较状语从句
由 than, the more…the more, as…as引导。
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九、方式状语从句
由in the same way, as 等引导。 ●As the sun rose the fog dispersed.
●Whenever she had a cold, she ate only fruit.
●Now that we have decorated the house, we can move in. ●The thread breaks where it is weakest. ●Robbie didn’t feel as she did.
●She ought to come down just in case anything happened. ●If necessary, ring me at home.
3) Idioms often use a number of words to represent a single object, person or concept, among other things, and unless you recognize when an idiom is being used, you can easily misunderstand what you read or hear spoken.
The sentence is a Complex-compound sentence. This happens when coordination(并列关系) and subordination(从属关系) occur in the same sentence. In compound sentences, there are two or more clauses. They are usually linked by coordinators such as and, or and but. Each clause can stand on its own.
●e.g. People who follow this religion study Buddhist sutras and they follow the teachings of Buddha. 2. Summary the simple sentence the compound sentence subject + predicate subject + predicate +and/or/but+ subject + predicate the complex sentence the complex- compound sentence main clause + subordinate clause the simple sentence+ and/or/but+ the complex sentence 3. Notes: The purpose of analyzing sentences
★ This will help students better understand the meaning of a long and complicated sentence, thus, they will read articles faster and understand them better as well as learn to use complicated sentences to express their views .
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