1、Model 9 Unit 2 Witnessing timeGrammar and usage【Teaching Aims】 After learning this lesson, the students will be able to understand what noun clauses are.【Teaching Important Points】 This lesson is aimed to guide the students to have a general understanding of noun clauses by presenting numerous examp

2、les, thus enabling the students to use them correctly and freely in their daily life.【Teaching Difficult Points】 Identify the clause in a sentence and apply it in different situations. I 【Teaching Aids】1. The multimedia 2. The blackboard【Teaching Procedures】Step 1 General introduction of noun clause

3、s Ask the students: What are noun clauses? Collect some examples from some individual students. Or the teacher can give some examples. From these examples we can see “Noun clauses act like nouns and can function as the subject, object, predicative or appositive in the sentence.”Step 2 Presentation a

4、nd practice1. Subject clauses 1) Present the students several subject clauses. (1) That he will succeed is certain.(2) Whether he will go there is not known.(3) What he said is not true.(4) Where he hid the money is to be found out.(5) Whoever comes is welcome.(6) How we can help the twins will be d

5、iscussed at the meeting. (7) When theyll start the project has not been decided yet.Tell the students: Subject clauses can be introduced by that, whether or questions words.2) What or that? Give students two pairs of sentences introduced with what and that and ask the students to conclude their diff

6、erences: when introducing the subject clause; that carries no meaning. What is usually used as the subject or object in the clause.3) The use of “it”. Present students the following sentences: (1) It is certain that he will succeed.(2) It is not known whether he will go there.(3) It has not been dec

7、ided yet when theyll start the project2. Object clauses 1) Present some sentences and get the students to recognize the object clauses in them. (1) I heard (that) he joined the army. (2) She did not know what had happened. (3) I wonder whether you can change this note for me. (4) She told me that sh

8、e would accept my invitation. (5) Our success depends upon how well we can cooperate with one another. (6) I am afraid (that) Ive made a mistake.2) Get the students to conclude three tips while using the object clauses by giving the example first. Tip1: If there is more than one object clause, only

9、the first that can be omitted. Tip2: Preparatory it is used when there is an object complement. Tip3: that is usually not used to introduce an object clause after a preposition except in that or except that.3. Predicative clauses 1) Give students four sentences and get students to think: (1) what ar

10、e predicative clauses? (2) What verbs can be followed by predicative clauses? (3) What words can be used to introduce predicative clauses. a. The question is whether we can make good preparation in such a short time.b. This is why we cant get the support of the people.c. But the fact remains that we

11、 are behind the other classes.d. The reason he is late for school is that he missed the early bus.2) Introduce a special sentence structure: The reason is that 4. Appositive clauses 1) Present some examples of appositive clauses.(1) Whatever gave you the idea that I can sing?(2) Word came that our t

12、eam won the match.(3) I have no idea when he will come back.(4) He got the news from Mary that the sports meeting was put off.(5) The kings decision that the prisoner would be set free surprised all the people.(6) The order that all the soldiers should stay still is given by the general. 2) Draw the

13、 students attention to the nouns that are followed by appositive clauses. 3) Get students to fill in the blanks using appropriate words: that, whether, where, how. 4) Guide students to tell the differences between appositive clauses and attributive clauses by giving a pair of examples.Step 3 Practic

14、e and consolidation 1. Get the students to read the notes in the textbook P24 and finish the exercises on P25.2. Do some multiple choices on the screen if time permits.1. As a new graduate, he doesnt know _ it takes to start a business here.A. how B. what C. when D. which 2. _ some people regard as

15、a drawback is seen as a plus by many others.A. Whether B. What C. That D. How 3. It never occurred to me _ you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind.A. which B. what C. that D. why 4. It is uncertain _ side effect the medicine will bring about, although about two thousand patients have

16、taken it. A. that B. what C. how D. whether 5. A good friend of mine from _ I was born showed up at my home right before I left for Beijing. A. How B. whom C. when D. which 6. Students are always interested in finding out _ they can go with a new teacher.A. how far B. how soon C. how often D. how lo

17、ng 7. Before the sales start, I make a list of _ my kids will need for the coming season.A. why B. what C. how D. which 8. One reason for her preference for city life is _ she can have easy access to places like shops and restaurants. A. that B. how C. what D. why 9.Have you finished the book? No. I