Grammar (  The Attributive Clause II )

Teaching important points:

Get the students to master the Attributive Clause introduced by where, when, and why.

Teaching difficult points:

Enable the students learn how to use 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 where, when and why.

2.      Let the students learn usages of relative adverbs.

Ability aims:

1.      Enable the students to know how to choose correct 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) 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.