牛津版英语选修10 Unit5 Enjoying novels Learning about Language.doc

Unit 5 Enjoying novels Part One: Teaching Design Period 2: A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language (The Nominative Absolute Construction) Aims To help students learn about The Nominative Absolute Construction 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 learning about Charlotte Bronte English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), sister of Anne Bront? and Emily Bront?. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Bront?s reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age. II. Discovering useful words and expressions Now turn to page 43 and do the words and expressions exercises 1 and 2. III. The Nominative Absolute Construction独立主格 独立主格结构的概念及基本构成形式 独立主格结构(the absolute structure)是由名词或代词加上分词或分词短语构成的一种独立结构，用于修饰整个句子，而不是一个词或词组。独立主格结构中的名词或代词与其后的分词或分词短语构成逻辑上的主谓关系。这种结构与主句不发生句法上的联系，独立主格结构的位置相当灵活，可置于主句前、主句末或主句中，常由逗号将其与主句分开。需特别注意的是，独立主格结构与主句之间不能使用任何连接词。例如 1)Night enshrouding the earth,nobody could make out what the dark mass was from a distance.(黑夜笼罩大地，谁也看不清远处黑压压的一片是什么东西。) 2)He lay at full length upon his stomach,his head resting upon his left forearm.(他的脊背朝天，四肢伸展，头枕着左臂，直挺挺地趴伏着。) 3)The coward was backing,his face being deathly pale,toward another room.(那个胆小鬼向另一个房间退去，脸色煞白。) 独立主格结构多用于书面语，尤其是描述性语言中，在口语和非正式文体中，一般用从句或两个句子来代替。例如，上述例句可变为： 1)Because night enshrouded the earth, nobody could make out what the dark mass was from a distance. 2)He lay at full length upon his stomach.His head rested upon his left forearm. 3)The coward was backing toward another room.His face was deathly pale. 独立主格结构的特殊构成形式 独立主格结构除上述基本构成形式，即名词／代词＋分词(短语)外，还有如下特殊构成形式。 1.名词＋介词短语 1)The mayor of Hiroshima strode at a