Unit1 Women of achievement-grammar教案
(subject-verb agreement)aimsto learn about subject-verb agreementto discover and learn to use some useful words and expressionsto discover and learn to use some useful structuresproceduresi. warming upwarming up by discovering useful words and expressionsturn to page 4 and do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4. check your answers against your classmates’. ii. learning about grammar 1. reading and thinking turn to page 2 and read the text of a protector of african wildlife. as you read on, pay attention to the forms of sentence predicates and the subject-verb agreement shown in the sentences. for reference: our group are…, watching a family of chimps is…, nobody before has fully understood…2. doing exercises 1 and 2 on page 5turn to page 5. look at the two sentences: our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest. and our group includes six boys and five girls. have you noticed any difference between them? yes. if the word “group” refers to different members, use a plural verb. if the word “group” is considered as a whole, use a singular verb. now fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given verbs in brackets on page 5. and then go on to do exercise 2 on the same page, that is, fill in the correct verb form in the letter. iii. ready used materials for subject-verb agreementi got a hold of some bad pork chops the other day, and they didn't agree with me. stomach aches aren't very pleasant. don't you agree? we all know these meanings of "agree," but when we talk about subject-verb agreement, we're talking about something different: matching subjects and verbs according to number. that is, when you have a singular subject, you have to match it with a singular verb form: the boy plays. when you have a plural subject, you must have a plural verb form: the boys play.in short, simple sentences, you should have no problem with agreement. you can hear the problem: the boys plays. when it's wrong, it just sounds funny. however, there are four potential problem spots that you need to watch carefully:● stuff in between the subject and verb ● reversed sentence order ● "-body," "-one," and "-thing" words ● "who," "which," and "that" stuff in between subjects and verbsthe stuff here is usually a prepositional phrase that separates the subject from the verb. remember how we crossed out prepositional phrases in order to find the subject? do the same thing if you're having problems with agreement. now, look at the following sentence and decide what's wrong with it: