2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 2 Period 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language教学设计 新人教版选修8.docVIP

Period 2 A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language (Revise the Appositive words, phrases and clauses) Introduction In this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and collocations, and then to discover and learn to use the following useful structures: the appositive words, phrases and clauses. The following steps of teaching may be taken: warming up by reading aloud to the tape the text CLONING：WHERE IS IT LEADING US?；learning about appositive；building up on your word power；discovering useful words and collocations；discovering and distinguishing；closing down by talking about cloning. Objectives To help students revise the Appositive words, phrases and clauses) To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and collocations To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures Procedures 1. Warming up by reading aloud to the tape the text CLONING：WHERE IS IT LEADING US? 2. Learning about appositive What is an Appositive? An appositive is a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun. A simple appositive is an epithet like Alexander the Great. Appositives are often set off by commas. Example: We visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Toms Cabin. (The underlined portion is the appositive.) Appositive Phrases An appositive phrase is a type of noun phrase that follows the noun or pronoun it modifies and amplifies or restricts its meaning. Our monitor, a careful reader and outspoken critic, will examine the article before it is handed to the headmaster. [The italicized phrase is an appositive.] Appositive phrases are similar to relative clauses; to avoid wordiness, relative clauses can often be reduced to appositive phrases. 3. Building up on your word power To build up on your word power you are to make sentences with the collocations from the text: CLONING：WHERE IS IT LEADING US? You