Period 4. Grammar
Goal: In this lesson, students will improve their knowledge of attributive clause.
Objectives: 1. In this lesson, students will be able to distinguish the attributive clause.
2.In this lesson, students will be able to use the attributive clauses with when, where, why and a relative pronoun with a preposition correctly while making sentences.
Material/resources: textbook, blackboard, a film poster
Procedures
Step1 Homework-checking
a. word study :all the missing words are about films. Can you guess what they are?
1.To most actors and actresses, the Oscar is the most important award.
2.In Speed,Keanu Reeves played the role of the brave policeman who saved the lives of the people on the bus.
3.Who do you think is the best director in China, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige or Feng Xiaogang?
4.The script was so well-written that the famous actress accepted the role at once.
5.A film studio is the place where films are made.
6.While watching Titanic, most people couldn’t help crying when it came to the scene in which Jack saves the life of the girl but dies in icy water himself.
7.Film companies often make follow-ups to films that have been very successful, such as Speed , Jurassic Park .
b. Ask students to check exercises in Vocabulary on P110.
Step 2 Lead in
1. Ask students some questions such as What Chinese directors do you know? What are their well-known films? Then write down the key words to these questions. Then ask students to use these words to make a sentence using attributive clause, and review attributive clause with pronouns.For example: Zhang Yimou Hero
Zhang Yimou is the famous director who successfully directed the film Hero.
Zhang Yimou whose film Hero is very successful is a famous director in China.
Hero is a successful film which /that is directed by Zhang Yimou.
2. Ask students to underline the sentences with attributive clause in the reading text and sort them. Then ask them to work in groups to compare the differences between them.
Step 3 Attributive clause
a..1). Explain the attributive clauses with adverbs where, when, why using sentences in the textbook.
Jurassic Park is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs.
1958 was the year when Spielberg made his first real film.The reason why Spielberg could not go to the Film Academy was that his grades were too low.
Tell Ss : You can join sentences with where when you mean “at that place”, and use when if you mean “at that time”. Sometimes why is used after the word “reason”.
2)Then ask them to make sentences using attributive clauses with where, when and why respectively.
3)Ask students to do Exercise1 on P33
Complete the following sentences using which, why, where or when.
1.Hangzhou is the place where I went last summer.
2.He read the book which his sister had told him about.
3.The reason why Peter is so happy is that he passed the exam.
4.I remember the day when my father died. I was only ten years old at that time.
5. Please give me the reason why you were late this time.
6. I will go back to the place where I grew up and live there forever.
b. 1) Explain the attributive clause with prepositions
The woman who/whom Spielberg is married to is an actress.
The woman to whom Spielberg is married is an actress.
Tell Ss: When you use a relative pronoun with a preposition, you have two choices, and placing the preposition before the relative pronoun is more formal.
2) Show a film poster and ask students what film it is, and who is the main actor. Then ask them to make sentences by using attributive clauses.
For example
Hero is a historical film which Li Lianjie plays the main role in.
Hero is a historical film in which Li Lianjie plays the main role.
3) Ask students to do Exercise3 on P33-34. Then ask them to answer them in the class.
Use a preposition and a relative pronoun, whom/which, to complete the following sentences.
1. The book about which I heard was written twenty years ago.
2. The people to whom the man spoke weren’t listening.
3. The film during which I fell asleep was very boring.
4. The pen with which she wrote that book can now be seen in a museum.
5. The little creature in which scientists are interested is known as ET.
6. The gun with which he was shot was never found.
Step 4 Ask students to choose an actor or an actress or a director they are familiar with and write some information about him or her, encouraging them to use the attributive clause while making sentences.
Assignment: Do Exercise2 on P33 in the exercise book and hand it in.
Do Exercise1, 2, 3 in the Grammar part on P111.
Compose a short passage about an actor or an actress or a director they are familiar with, using the sentences they write in Step6.
Step 5 Homework Write some sentences in text with the attributive clauses