Grammar (  The Attributive Clause  )

Teaching important points:

Get the students to master the Attributive Clause introduced by who, whom, which, that, whose, where, when, and why.

Teaching difficult points:

Enable the students learn how to use who, whom, which, that, whose, where, when and why correctly.

Teaching Method:

Task –based teaching and learning

Teaching Aids:

Blackboard, computer – assisted teaching, projector

3-Dimentional Teaching Demands:

Knowledge aims:

1.      Get the students to learn the Attribute Clause introduced by who, whom, which, that, whose, where, when and why.

2.      Let the students learn usages of relative pronouns and relative adverbs.

Ability aims:

1.      Enable the students to know how to choose correct relative pronouns and relative adverbs for attributive clauses.

2.      Enable the students to use attributive clauses to describe things and persons.

Emotional aims:

1.      Get the students to become interested in grammar learning.

2.      Develop the students’ sense of group cooperation.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Greeting＆Lead-in

Greet the students as usual.

Show the students two sentences:

⑴ She is the most beautiful girl.

⑵ She is the most beautiful girl whom I have ever seen.

Work in groups, compare the two sentences.

1)      Which one do you think is the attributive clause?

2)      Can you tell the differences between the sentences?

Suggested answers
1) The attributive clause is that “She is the most beautiful girl whom I have ever seen.”

3)      The first sentence uses an adjective to describe a noun while the second sentence uses an attributive clause to describe a noun.

Step 2 Grammar learning

Show the sentences on the screen.

1)Put the two simple sentences together to form an attributive clause. You may write a compound sentence first.

The girl is my friend. + The girl wears glasses.

= The girl is my friend and she wears glasses.

=The girl who wears glasses is my friend.

 先行词关系代词（=连接词+代词）

Who 代替先行词the girl，作从句主语。

2) What are Relative Pronouns?

Suggested answer:

Relative pronouns are special pronouns which can connect the antecedent and the attributive clause. Also they can be used as a part of the attributive clause.

3) What are the relative pronouns of the attributive clause? What are their differences?

① who: referring to a person, can be used as subject in the attributive clause.

The girl is my friend. + The girl wears glasses.

= The girl is my friend and she wears glasses.

=The girl who wears glasses is my friend.

    ② whom: referring to a person, can be used as object in the attributive clause; When it is used as an object, it can be omitted.

These are the girls. + I share the flat with the girls.

= These are the girls and I share the flat with them.

=These are the girls (whom) I share the flat with.

③ which : referring to things, can be used as subject in the attributive clause.

     The picture was sweet. + The picture was about the medical treatment.

     =The picture was sweet and it was about the medical treatment.

     = The picture was sweet which was about the medical treatment.

     ④ which: referring to things, can be used as object in the attributive clause. When it is used as an object, it can be omitted.

     This is the place. + We visited the place yesterday.

     = This is the place and we visited it yesterday.

     = this is the place (which) we visited yesterday.

     ⑤ that : referring to a person or things, can be used as subject or object in the attributive clause. When it is used as an object, it can be omitted.

     ⑥ whose: referring to a person or a thing , can be used as an attribute in the attributive clause.

      The girl is Andy.+ Her brother was missing.

      = The girl whose brother was missing is Andy.

      She looked for a car. +Its engine was in good condition.

      =She looked for a car whose engine was in good condition.

      Summary of the relative pronouns:

     The choice of the relatives is the most difficult in learning the attributive clause. However, there are some rules that can help us choose the correct relatives. Usually, which relative to choose depends on what the antecedent is and what sentence element the relative functions in the attributive clause as shown in the following chart:

 4) What are the relative adverbs of the attributive clause? What are their differences?

① where: referring to place, can be used as adverbial in the attributive clause.

This is the elevator.+ We were trapped in the elevator.

=This is the elevator which we were trapped in.

=This is the elevator in which we were trapped.

=this is the elevator where we were trapped.