Unit 5 The British Isles

get the students to pay more attention to the underlined sentences and with their help explain the functions of noun clauses respectively.(to make sure every student can be clear about this grammar points, chinese can be used instead while explaining.
3. drill: to help the students to have a further understanding of the functions of the noun clause.
(teacher shows the screen.) t: now look at some other sentences on the screen and decide which part the clauses act as. (on p 39-40)
choose the correct part from the box to match with the sentences.
a. subject b. object c. predicative d. appositive
1. the idea that england stands for fish & chips, the speaker's corner and the tower of london is past.
2. the fact that the mainland of great britain is made up of three kingdoms is still unknown to many people.
3. the result of so much french influence was that the english language ended up with many french words such as table, animal and age.
4. some people feel that wales is an ancient fairy land.
5. that most of these are now threatened and many disappear is a serious matter to the people in britain.
6. they realise that it is of great value to record and teach them to the younger generation.
answers:
d 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. a 6. b
4. comparison between the appositive clause and the attributive clause
(1) presentation:
present three groups of sentences for the students to compare first and then use the inductive method to introduce the differences between appositive clause and the attributive clause: in the attributive clause, “that” is often used as subject or object while in the appositive clause “that” isn't used as members of the sentence..
1). the news that our team won the match is exciting.
2). the news that he heard just now is exciting
3). he always makes a promise that he will never keep
4). he always makes a promise that he will work hard
5).the fact that great britain is made up of three countries is still unknown.
6). the state that consists of three countries is developing very fast.
(2)practice
t: now look at part 2 on page 38. in this part, there are four that clause.please underline the clauses and identify the type of clauses. know how to do this exercise?
(3) practice
t: look at part 3. join each pair of sentences using that clause as appositive.
step 3.summary and homework
t：in this period, we've done some exercises about some important words and the noun clauses, especially we practice the appositive clause. also we've known the difference between the appositive clause and the attributive clause. after class, you should practise more to master them better. please do exx1-2 on p112. while reading ex2, try to keep in your mind as much information about the boat race between oxford and cambridge universities ok.