从容说课
This is the fourth teaching period of this unit. To test whether the students have grasped the important and difficult language points they learned in the last period, the teacher should first offer them some revision exercises.
This teaching period is a grammar lesson. The students are expected to make clear the differences between Direct Speech and Indirect Speech and grasp the main usages of them in this period. Students often feel grammar very abstract and boring, so it is necessary to make the class lively and interesting. Example sentences and grammar summary should be carefully designed so as to make it easy for students to understand and accept.
In this lesson, we will first offer a supposed situation and make the students learn about the differences between Direct Speech and Indirect Speech. The situation makes students know that when talking in our daily life sometimes we have got to use Direct Speech and sometimes we also need to use Indirect Speech. This is to help them to have the sense to connect grammar form with real situations in our daily life. If we want to express ourselves clearly and correctly, we should use a proper form of language, otherwise others can’t understand us. That is why it is necessary for us to have some knowledge in grammar.
Later on, we’ll show and explain the rules of these grammar items, that is to say, to make the students know how to change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech and Indirect Speech into Direct Speech. Then ask them to do exercises in Discovering useful structures, Learning about language on Page 5. It will make the students further know about the differences and grasp the usages. This also can help the students connect grammar rules with proper language forms so as to make grammar rules less abstract.
Then we will ask the students to do Exercise 1 in Using structures on Page 42. If the students have difficulty, help them and check their mistakes with the help of the grammar rules.
Tell the students not just to learn some simple grammar rules but to learn and use them in practical situations.
For example, my friend says, “I will come here tomorrow. ” If using Indirect Speech, you can express it in many different ways.
1. If at the same time in the same place, you should say:My friend says she (he) will come here tomorrow.
2. If the time has changed and still in the same place, you should say:My friend said she (he)would come here the next day.
3. If the place has changed and the time is still today, you should say:My friend said she (he)would go there tomorrow.
4. If both the time and the place have changed, you should say:My friend said she (he)would go there the next day.
5. If both the time and the place have changed, the other should say:He (She) said he (she) would go there the next day.
If students learn the grammar this way, it is easier for them to grasp.
