Unit 5 Canada-“The True North”

Part 1: Teaching Design

(第一部分：教學設計)

Period 2: A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language

(Noun clauses as the appositive)

Aims

To learn about Noun clauses as the appositive

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 36 and do exercises 1, 2 ,3, and 4 first. Check your answers against your classmates’.

II. Learning about grammar

1. Reading and finding

Turn to page 34 and read the text A TRIP ON “THE TRUE NORTH”. As you read, find out sentences with noun clauses as the appositive.

Key: The idea that they would cross the whole continent was exciting. / The idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong. / The fact that ocean ships can go there surprise many people.

2. Doing exercises

Turn to page 37 and do the exercises 1 and 2 in groups of four.

III. Ready used materials for “ Noun clauses as the appositive”

IV. Closing down by doing a quiz

Underline the appositives in the following sentences

1. My son, the policeman, will be visiting us next week.

2. The captain ordered the ship's carpenters to assemble the shallop, a large rowboat.

3. Walter, the playboy and writer, is very attached to his mother, Mrs. Hammon.

4. The actor Paul Newman directed only one picture.

5. Elizabeth Teague, a sweet and lovable girl, grew up to be a mentally troubled woman.

Underline and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Remember: not all require punctuation.

6. Sweetbriar a company known throughout the South is considering a nationwide advertising campaign.

7. An above-average student and talented musician John made his family proud.

8. The extremely popular American film Titanic was widely criticized for its mediocre script.

9. The greatest American film ever made Citizen Kane won only one Academy Award.

10. 60 Minutes the TV news magazine program featured a story on the popular singer Whitney Houston.

Keys:

1. My son, the policeman, will be visiting us next week.

2. The captain ordered the ship's carpenters to assemble the shallop, a large rowboat.

3. Walter, the playboy and writer, is very attached to his mother, Mrs. Hammon.

4. The actor Paul Newman directed only one picture.

5. Elizabeth Teague, a sweet and lovable girl, grew up to be a mentally troubled woman.

6. Sweetbriar, a company known throughout the South, is considering a nationwide advertising campaign.

7. An above-average student and talented musician, John made his family proud.

8. The extremely popular American film Titanic was widely criticized for its mediocre script.

9. The greatest American film ever made, Citizen Kane won only one Academy Award.

10. 60 Minutes, the TV news magazine program, featured a story on the popular singer Whitney Houston.