unit 10 Frightening nature

1.how is the disaster formed?
2.what happens when the disaster comes?
3. what is the damage after the disaster?
4.what do people do after that?
5. what lesson have you learn?
(this step tries to develop the ss’ cooperative ability and writing ability. the ss look up information in many different ways.)

stage 4 homework
read more passages about natural disasters. they can refer to the following websites:


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period 6 grammar & word study
goals: 1. learn and master grammar: ellipsis
      2. review the usage of the present participle & past participle.
teaching important points:
1.learn about ellipsis of different types.
2.enable ss to learn how to choose the present participle & the past participle.
teaching difficult point: how to use ellipsis to make a sentence brief and clear.
teaching aids: a computer & a projector
procedures:
step 1: word study
1. check the answer to exercise 1 at page 77.
2. the present participle & the past participle
t: look at the 2 sentences on the blackboard.
this is a moving story.
the boy is deeply moved by the story.
can you tell the difference between “moving” & “moved” ?
s: yes. the present participle “moving” expresses an action that happens around the same time as the main verb with an active meaning while the past participle “moved” expresses an action that is completed with an passive meaning. am i right?
t: yes, quite right? please open your books at page 78. look at ex. 2. read the sentences and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the words.
step 2: grammar - ellipsis
t: look at the 2 sentences on the blackboard.
upon arrival, my uncle hugged pompy and (?) tried to give him courage.
then came a smell of sulphur, and then (?) flames.
read them and decide which words were left out at each place of the question marks.
s: i think in the 1st sentence the subject “he or my uncle” was left out.
s: in the 2nd sentence i think “came” should be at the place of the question mark.
t: you are right. in modern english there is a tendency to omit or leave out some words in a sentence for the sake of conciseness. the omission is called “ellipsis”, and a sentence containing such an elliptical sentence. a word or words in a sentence can be omitted only on condition that the omission would not cause the sentence to be understood in more than one way to be unclear meaning or wrong. we must keep in mind that we should not omit words necessary for clearness. are you clear about that? now i’d like to some more about “ellipsis”.