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Unit1 Women of achievement-grammar教案 (Subject-verb agreement) Aims To learn about subject-verb agreement To discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions To discover and learn to use some useful structures Procedures I. Warming up Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions Turn to page 4 and do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. Check your answers against your classmates’. II. Learning about grammar 1. Reading and thinking Turn to page 2 and read the text of A PROTECTOR OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE. As you read on, pay attention to the forms of sentence predicates and the subject-verb agreement shown in the sentences. For reference: Our group are…, Watching a family of chimps is…, Nobody before has fully understood… 2. Doing exercises 1 and 2 on page 5 Turn to page 5. Look at the two sentences: Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest. And our group includes six boys and five girls. Have you noticed any difference between them? Yes. If the word “group” refers to different members, use a plural verb. If the word “group” is considered as a whole, use a singular verb. Now fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given verbs in brackets on page 5. And then go on to do Exercise 2 on the same page, that is, fill in the correct verb form in the letter. III. Ready used materials for Subject-verb agreement I got a hold of some bad pork chops the other day, and they didnt agree with me. Stomach aches arent very pleasant. Dont you agree? We all know these meanings of agree, but when we talk about subject-verb agreement, were talking about something different: matching subjects and verbs according to number. That is, when you have a singular subject, you have to match it with a singular verb form: The boy plays. When you have a plural subject, you must have a plural verb form: The boys play. In short, simple sentences, you should have no problem with agreement. You can hear the problem: The boys plays. When its wrong, it just soun