Unit 1 school life

Grammar and usage

Teaching aims:

Students can be acquainted with attributive clause and use them in their writing.

Teaching important and difficult points:

Find out antecedents and attributive clauses.

Analyze attributive clause.

Teaching procedure:

Step 1: Greetings

Step 2: Definition

An attributive clause modifies a noun in the same way that an adjective or prepositional phrase does. The noun it modifies is called an antecedent.

Now, look at the three phrases in page 8.pay attention to the position of the adjective, prepositional phrase and the attributive clause.

T: From the above three phrases, can you tell me the antecedent?

S: The team.

Step3:

Relative pronouns: which, that, who, whom and whose. They usually function as subject, object, predicative and attribute.

Relative adverbs: where, why, and when. They usually function as adverbial. Examples are in page 8.

Ask students to read every sentence and find out the antecedent, relative pronouns and relative adverbs, the attributive clauses.

Step 4: Exercise.

Read the article in page 9 quickly to underline the attributive clauses you find.

There are 5 sentences in all.

Then, teacher explains some language points in this article.

1. David was one of the most helpful students that we ever had.

Compare: ---She is one of the few girls who have passed the examination.

---Mr. Herre is the only one of the foreign experts who is in our works.

2. Upon finishing his studies, he started traveling China.

---Upon finishing = as soon as he finished

---“Upon” can also be changed for “on “

Example: On reaching the city, he called up Lester.

3.The paintings that David donated to the school are being displayed in the assembly hall.

“Are being displayed” is the passive voice of the present continuous tense.

Example: The meeting is being held in the hall and you can go to attend it.

Display: v. & n.

(1) vt.展示或陳列某事物

It’s the first time the painting has been displayed to the public.

(2) 顯示；顯露

Her writing displays natural talent.

(3) 展示：陳列；顯示；顯露

Put on a firework display

(4) 陳列的貨物，藝術品等

The displays in Harrods are one of the sights in London.

3. In China he developed an interest in teaching English to Chinese students.

Develop v.

(1) 養成：培養： 產生

He has developed the habit of making notes while reading.

(2) 發展：發揚

We should develop our good points and overcome our shortcomings.

(3) 開發：培育

China is developing the west.

(4) 沖洗（膠卷）

I ‘d like to have these films developed here.

Phrase: on display 被展示；被陳列

4．He will make a speech about his experiences in China.

Phrase: make a speech (countable noun)

Step 5 Relative pronouns

(1) that & which

In attributive clause, they are used to refer to things

Examples: this is the story that / which we wrote for our storytelling contest,

(2) who & whom

---In attributive clause, they are used to refer to people.

Example: I am going to see a friend who has just come back from the UK.

---When who functions as the object, it can be replaced by whom.

Example: The student who/whom we saw at the school gate is from America.

(3) that, which, who, whom can be left out when they are the objects.

Example: The girl (that/who / whom ) you have just seen is very good at English.

(4) Whose: mean possession. It usually relates to a person, but it can also relate to things.

Example: --- I sat next to a girl whose name was Diane.

---The club whose members are music fans meet in the school garden every Saturday afternoon.

Step 6 Conclusions

Review the important and difficult points in this lesson generally.

Step 7 Homework

Page 11, page 68 C1, C2