Period 3 Discovering Useful Structure

The Restrictive and Non-restrictive Attributive Clause

Teaching contents

New Senior English for China Student’s Book2

Module 2   Unit 1 Cultural Relics    

Period 2 Grammar  

The Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause

Teaching analysis

This period mainly introduces non-restrictive attributive clause and the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. The students have already learnt restrictive clause before, which can lay a foundation for learning and mastering the contents of this class.

As we all know, grammar is always considered boring and difficult to teach and learn, so I will try to transfer the traditional teacher-centered approach to student-centered approach, combine teaching with pleasure, and motivate the students to discover and solve the problems themselves. And then they can learn and master this new grammatical structure in pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.

Teaching goals

¡ùCompare and master the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses, esp. the use of “which”©}“that”.

¡ùEnable students to choose the proper relatives.

¡ùImprove students’ ability of speaking and writing using attributive clause.

Teaching important and difficult points

¡ùThe comparison between the restrictive and non-restrictive clauses

¡ùGet the students to use the restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses properly to describe some things and persons.

¡ùGet students to master this new grammatical structure

¡ùImprove students’ ability of speaking and writing using attributive clause

Teaching methods

¡ùInquiry-based and Student-centered Teaching Approach

¡ùCooperative and Inductive Methods

¡ùMultimedia Computer Assisted Instruction

Teaching aids

A computer and some slide shows

Teaching procedures

Lead-in → Comparison©}Induction → Summary → Exercises→ Evaluation → Homework