Period 4 Grammar and usage

The Attributive Clause

The General idea of this period:

This period will deal with the grammar part: the Attributive Clause. You will have systematic explanations of the Attributive Clause as well as some exercises to consolidate what you learn.

Teaching Aim:

Introduce attributive clause

Teaching important point:

The basic usage of the relative pronouns and learn to use them in different situations.

Teaching difficult point:

How to help the students to learn the grammar efficiently.

Teaching method:

Deduction to present the usage of the relative pronouns and then some exercises to consolidate what we have learned.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Greetings

Step2 Presentation

Look at the picture at page8 and ask the students to speak out what they may think of.(Write down these three structures on the Bb or show them on the screen below the picture.)

Adjective: a green team

Prepositional phrase: a team in green

Attributive clause: a team who were wearing green

Attributive clause modifies a noun in the same way as adjective or prepositional phrase does. The noun it modifies is called an antecedent.

Read Part2 at page8. Attributive clauses are usually introduced by relative pronouns like which, that, who, whom, and whose, or relative adverbs like where, why and when. In the clause these relative words usually function as the following: (page8)

Step3 Read the article at page9 and underline the attributive clauses you find in the article.

Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom and whose. Read this part at page10 and grasp the usages of these relative pronouns.(show the screen) Then do the exercise at page11.

Step4 Consolidation

Finish the exercises at page88

Step5 Homework

Complete the Attributive Clause exercises