Life in the future（The Fourth Period）

the fourth period
teaching aims：
1.review the useful expressions learnt in this unit by doing some exercises.
2.do some exercises to consolidate the noun clause.
3.do some reading and writing practice to improve the students’integrating skills.
teaching important points：
1.help the students master the noun clause better.
2.help the students learn to write a defini-tion paragraph.
3.improve the students’integrating skills.
teaching diffcult point：
how to improve the students’integrating skills.
teaching methods：
1.revision method to help the students mas-ter the useful expressions and the noun clause better.
2.asking-and-answering activity to go through the reading material.
3.individual，pair or group work to make ev-ery student work in class.
teaching aids：
1.a projector
2.a tape recorder
3.the blackboard
teaching procedures：
step i greetings
greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ revision
t：yesterday we learned grammar--the noun clause.first look at the screen，please.
(show the following on the screen.)
1.what life will be 1ike in the future is the topic for today’s class discussion.
2.can you imagine what life will be like in the future?
3.one of the questions that few people can give answer to is what life will be
like in the future.
t：study the sentences and find out what kind of noun clause the underlined part in each sentence is.
(the students prepare for a couple of minutes.then the teacher may ask some student to say their answers.)
suggested answers：
1.subject clause
2.object clause
3.predicative clause
t：good.but generally speaking，it is hard for you to choose connectiyes in- troducing the noun clause.only when you know the functions of the connectives can you use the noun clause as the subject,object，predi-cative and appositive freely.now let’s do some exercises to consolidate what you have learnt.
(show the following on the screen.)
fill in the blanks with suitable connec-tives.
1._______composition is the best is known to us a11.
2.he wondered________he was not al-lowed to go out alone.
3.______is to take li ming’s place is being discussed.
4.i got very angry with______he said.
5.my idea is_________we should ger more people to finish the work.
6.i wonder_________it is true or not.
7.the problem is___________we could help smokers kick their habit.
8.the news__________we had won in the match excited all.
9.we have no idea_________she was born.
10.that’s________we decided to put the meeting off.
suggested answers：