Teaching aims:

How to do mistake correcting

Teaching emphasis:

The correct process of dealing with this exercise

Teaching process:

Ⅰ. Lead-in

1. Ask the students some questions about the mistakes in life.

⑴ Have you ever made any mistakes in your everyday life?

⑵ Do you think that there is someone that doesn’t make any mistakes in his life?

⑶ What will you do if you make some mistakes in your life?

⑷ Does it matter if you make a mistake in your everyday life?

2. Let the students discuss these questions and according to their answers draw the

conclusion: In our everyday lives, if we make some mistakes, we should correct

them, then we are still a good fellow. (Chairman Mao’s words)

Ⅱ. Presentation

1. The teacher’s brief introduction:

We know in our everyday lives, when we make some mistakes we can correct them

in time. And also when we are using languages, we may make some mistakes. So

today we are going to deal with this kind of exercise: Mistake Correcting (giving

this topic on the blackboard)

2. Give the next six sentences on the slide:

① What a nice weather it is!

② The Smiths did his best to help me.

③ “Stop talking,” he said his students.

④ It’s very kind for you to do so.

⑤ Although he studied hard, but he failed.

⑥ Please tell them come here at once.

3. Discuss these six sentences and correct the mistakes in them with the right

signs.

4. Summarize the three kinds of mistakes appearing in these sentences:

Unnecessary Word Missing Word Wrong Word

Ⅲ. Practice

1. Give the first passage on the slide and ask the students to discuss it.

Passage 1

Hello. I learn about you from my English teacher, 1. ________

Miss Fang. I’d like to your penfriend, and get to 2. ___

know more about your country.

First, let me tell you something more about myself. 3. ___

My name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing, where is the 4. ___

capital of China. I go to Hongqi School. We 5. ___

study quite a few subject, such as maths, Chinese, 6. ___

English and physics. I use to play ping-pong a lot 7. ___

in my spare time, but now I am interesting in football. 8. ___

Do you play any ball games? What your favourite 9. ___

sport? I look forward to hear from you soon 10. ___

Yours,

Li Hua

2. Check the answers one by one and explain the mistakes in it.

3. Let the students pay special attention to the signs that should be made.

Ⅳ. Introduction

Introduce the methods and techniques of finishing the exercise of mistake correcting on the slide. Let the students read it and discuss it by themselves.

短文改錯(cuò)的解題方法與技巧

1.首先要細(xì)讀全文，弄懂全篇的意思。在讀的過程可把初步確認(rèn)的錯(cuò)誤標(biāo)出。

2.然后再?gòu)囊韵聨讉�(gè)方面仔細(xì)推敲。

（1）動(dòng)詞→查時(shí)態(tài)，第三人稱單數(shù)、非謂語動(dòng)詞、語態(tài)、主復(fù)句時(shí)態(tài)是否一致。

（2）代詞→查前后是否一致。it的用法，以及指示代詞、人稱代詞、不定代詞、關(guān)系代詞的用法是否有誤。

（3）介詞→查搭配及容易誤用的介詞。

（4）形容詞副詞→查詞性有否混淆，形容詞與副詞的比較級(jí)、最高級(jí)的用法，修飾比較級(jí)的副詞等。

（5）名詞→查單復(fù)數(shù)，可數(shù)不可數(shù)，是否加冠詞，the，a還是an，主謂一致問題。

（6）連詞→查上下文之間的邏輯關(guān)系。有否誤用。

3.重讀全文，仔細(xì)推敲改正后的短文。讀起來是否通順，邏輯思維與短文脈絡(luò)是否合理，詞匯的用法、句子結(jié)構(gòu)是否合理。

Ⅴ. Group-work

1. Give the second passage on the slide.

2. Divide the students into groups of four and ask them to have a competition: Which group can get the correct answers first?

Passage 2

Last year summer I went to London for a holiday. 1. ___________

I spent just a week there. While I am staying there I visited 2. ___________

many places of interests and had lots of friendly talks with 3. ___________

all kinds people. I found out a very interesting thing there. 4. ___________

One of my Chinese friends who has been lived in London 5. ________

told me that many English families don’t like to buy new 6. ___________

television sets. There are many shops where can lend you 7. ________

TV sets. The shops are often filled by a great many people. 8. ___________

Here they can borrow a set very easy, and it costs them only 9. ___________

a little. Then it can be taken home and use for long. 10. ___________

3. Let the group that first get the answers give their answers one by one and check it together.

Ⅵ. Consolidation

1. Give some rules that should be paid attention to when we are doing this exercise on the slide:

短文改錯(cuò)應(yīng)注意的問題

㈠.四不改。即：

①標(biāo)點(diǎn)符號(hào)不改。②大小不改。③詞序錯(cuò)誤不改（不是不改，而是按錯(cuò)詞或少詞來改）。④在綱外生詞不改。文中出現(xiàn)帶漢語注釋的詞，在句中不可能用錯(cuò)。

㈡.規(guī)范做題方法。

①要嚴(yán)格按照示范，即用規(guī)定的符號(hào)去改錯(cuò)。不要用文字去說明或用箭頭去表示。

②換詞，去詞和加詞三者不可混淆。

2. Give Passage 3 on the slide and ask one or two students to come to the blackboard to finish it quickly.

Passage 3

Today I visited the Smiths---my first time visit 1. __________

to a American family. They live in a small 2. _________

town. It was very kind for them to meet me 3. _________

at the railway station and drove me to their home. 4. _________

The Smiths did his best to make me feel 5._________

at home. They offered me coffee and other 6._________

drinks. We have a good time talking and laughing 7._________

together. They eager to know everything about 8. _________

China and asked me lots of question. In fact, 9._________

they are planning to visit China in next year. 10._________

3. Ask one student to give the general idea of the passage first.

4. Check the answers together.

Ⅶ. Summary

1. Summarize the points that the students should pay attention to when dealing with this exercise.

2. Homework

Finish the mistake correcting exercises in the workbook.