Unit5 Nelson Mandela-a modern hero-grammar教案
Teaching goals
1. To discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions.
2. To learn Attributive Clauses part2 (where, when, why, prep. +which /whom)
Step 1 Lead-in
(By asking Ss some Qs about Elias, then lead in some attributive clauses in the reading text. Get Ss to learn the grammar from their book.)
T: In Elias’s story, Nelson Mandela acted an important role in his life, and a lot of things greatly changed because of him. So there are many unforgettable experiences in Elias’s mind. Suppose you are /were Elias, can you tell us some of your impressive experiences?
Ss: Yes/Ok
T:
Q1: When did you first meet Nelson Mandela?
S1: I met Nelson Mandela in a very difficult period of my life.
T: So you mean the time when you first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of your life. (Copy the sentence on the blackboard)
Q2: Where was the school you studied?
S2:The school where I studied only two years was three kilometers away.
Q3: When was the day Nelson Mandela told you what to do and helped you?
S3: The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the happiest days of my life.
Q4: Where were the parts you blacks lived?
S4: The parts of town where we lived were the places decided by white people.
u The time when you first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of your life.
u The school where i studied only two years was three kilometers away.
u The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the happiest days of my life.
u The parts of town where we lived were the places decided by white people.
Step 2 Grammar review
T: Now please look at these sentences. The words underlined are all modified by sentences. Do you still remember what we call these kinds of clauses?
Ss: Attributive clause.
T: Yeah, the attributive clauses are very useful in our expression.
(Show a short flash of the dialogue between a couple)
Now let’s review some together. Will you fill in the proper words?
Ex1:
1. Is he the man who/that wants to see you?
2. He is the man whom/ that I saw yesterday.
3. They rushed over to help the man whose car had broken down.
4. The package (which / that) you are carrying is about to come unwrapped.
T: What do we call the words which you filled in just now?。
S: Relative pronoun.
T: What are they?
Relative pronoun ：who, whom, whose, that, which等。
Step 3 Grammar learning
T: Besides these words and sentences, we find another language using in our text.
We were put in a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the government．
The person to whom you should be grateful for a peaceful South Africa is Nelson Mandela
T: What’s the differences between these two and others?
S: We have a preposition before the relative pronoun.
T: But where is the preposition from?
Let’s observe the following sentences!
Ex2:
1. The speed at which light travels is 300000km per second.(由先行词的习惯搭配决定)
at the speed of
2. This is the teacher from whom I borrow the book. (borrow from)（动词词组）
3. Don’t bring the children to see the animals of which they are afraid. (be afraid of)
关系代词whom, which前介词的选择由先行词的习惯搭配或后半句动词的搭配而决定。
Ex3
1. This was a time which you had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg at．
2. This was a time at which you had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg．
3. This was a time when you had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg．
关系副词：when, where, why.
关系副词可代替的先行词是时间，地点或理由的名词，在从句中作状语，相当于“介词+which”结构，经常交替使用。
Step 4 Grammar practice
Ex1: Elias has had some problems with his messages for his friends. Can you help him form sentences with the following words and phrases. Match them please.
was the 5th of August.
was because of my hard work.
were 9km from my house.
was late at night.
was very grand.
we voted
I worked
I joined the ANC Youth League
I got a job
I arrived
The mines
The reason
The time
The government building
The date
where
when
why
Ex2: Now will you complete these sentences using an attributive clause with when, where or why？
1. That was the reason why I had to go hospital for so long and I could not go on my holiday to Britain.
2. Mary Brown moved to a place where she was close to the sea, so she could go swimming every day.
3. This was the time when the harvest failed three years in a row, and everyone was cold and hungry.
4. It was the year when the electricity failed and everybody had to cook their dinner by candlelight.
5. I went back to the town which I left when I was five years old, so I could see the house where I used to live.
6. He will never forget the park where he first met his wife.
EX3: Join two simple sentences to make a complex sentence with an attributive clause.
T: Just now, we used the words when, why, where, which, who to fill in the blankets. Now would you combine the two sentences by using the attributive clause?
Eg: Wang An moved to the US from Shanghai in 1945. He was born in Shanghai.
Wang An moved from Shanghai, where he was born, to the US in 1945.
1. Harvard is a world-famous university where/from which Wang An got his doctor’s degree.
2. He arrived in America in 1945 as a young man who had lost most of his family during the Anti-Japanese war.
a) Wang An spent 3years in Harvard University where/ in which he studied applied physics.
3. In 1951 Dr Wang founded his own company where/ in which computers were made.
4. He became a very successful entrepreneur in the US in 1985, when he made $3 billion.
5. Dr Wang died in 1990 when IT was developing rapidly all over the world.
6. This is Dr Wang to whom the computer belonged.
Step 5 Language production
T: Dr Wang made great achievements during his life. Some time, places and events mean a lot to him. They are his unforgettable experiences. And what about you? Do you have some great moments and places to remember? Now think about the most five important things in your life. and share them with your partners. Let’s work in four.
Top five in your life
Eg: Linhai is a beautiful city where I was born.
I was born in 1985 when my sisster was five years old.
I will never forget the day when….
Step 6 Homework
1. Make what you discussed into a short passage by using the attributive clause.
2. Finish the exercises in the workbook.
附板书设计：（Blackboard Design）
Attributive clause
relative pronoun ：who, whom, whose, that, which等。
关系代词whom, which前介词的选择由先行词的习惯搭配或后半句动词的搭配而决定。
关系副词：when, where, why.
关系副词可代替的先行词是时间，地点或理由的名词，在从句中作状语，相当于“介词+which”结构，经常交替使用。
