Part 1: Teaching Design

(第一部分：教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì))

(Noun clauses as the subject)

Aims

To learn about noun clauses as the subject

To discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions

To discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

I. Warming up

Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Turn to page 27 and do exercises 1, 2 ，3 and 4 first. Check your answers against your classmates’.

II. Learning about grammar

Find the noun clauses in the following sentences and tell how they are used. (Subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition)

1. How the prisoner escaped is a mystery.

2. My feeling is that the robbery was an inside job.

3. Everyone is wondering how he could just disappear.

4. The news that he had escaped frightened the whole town.

5. The police have offered whoever finds the stolen diamonds a reward.

6. The family has had no word about where he might be.

7. That we were ready to go was a miracle.

8. Give whoever wants to go a ride to the game.

9. That you are losing ground was evident from the polls.

10. Whoever injured the handicapped woman must be feeling guilty.

Answers

1. How the prisoner escaped = subject

2. that the robbery was an inside job = predicate nominative

3. how he could just disappear = direct object

4. that he had escaped = appositive

5. whoever finds the stolen diamonds = indirect object

6. where he might be = object of the preposition

7. That we were ready to go = subject

8. whoever wants to go = indirect object

9. That you are losing ground = subject

10. Whoever injured the handicapped woman = subject

IV. Closing down by doing exercises

1. Noun Clause Practice Quiz

1) I had an accident and took my car to the garage. My husband asked me where ________.

A. is my car B. my car was C. my car is D. was my car

2) Is it true all of the computers will shut down in the year 2010? _______ is unbelievable!

A. That all the computers could shut down B. All computers could shut down

C. It is that all computers could shut down D. Shutting down of all computers

3) Is it true __________ people are saying about Y2K?

A . that what B. that C. whether or not D. what

4) _______________ an old "date" chip is important.

A. A computer has B. If a computer have

C. Whether or not a computer has D. Has a computer

5) What are you going to do with your old computer? Nothing! _________ is too expensive.

A. That I want to do B. What I want to do C. That what I want to do D. If what I want to do

(Keys: B A D C B)

2. To end this period turn to page 28 and do exercises 1, 2 and 3. You may do them in groups of 4.