【导学过程】
Teaching aims:
1.students will be able to review the usage of transitive and intransitive verbs;
2.students will be able to read brief explanations of the grammar items and draw conclusions;
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead in
What’s the biggest difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
• An American, Philo Farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the TV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
• Times sure have changed!
• Transitive verbs are verbs that take an object. Intransitive verbs do not take an object.
Step 2 Discovering more
Read through P8 and try to find out more differences between them.
• 1. An American, Philo Farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the TV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
• 2. It was not until the early 1950s that most tape recorders began using plastic tape as they do today.
• 3. Who can foresee what the future will bring?
• The object can be a noun, a pronoun, an infinitive, a verb-ing or an object clause.
动词的种类
动词的种类比较复杂，大致可以根据其在句子中的功用分为及物动词与不及物动词，连系动词介乎二者之间。
及物动词和不及物动词(Transitive and intransitive verbs)
1. 及物动词要求有直接宾语。如：John Ford himself opened the door to me.
