Teaching aims:
Knowledge aims:
Students can understand the function of the relative pronoun that.
Students can grasp the usage of attributive clause with that.
Ability aims:
Students can describe a place with attributive clause.
Students can discover the rules of attributive clause with that under the teacher’s guidance.
Emotional aims:
Students will increase their curiosity towards English grammar.
Teaching key points and difficult points:
Key points:
The usage of attributive clause with that.
Difficult Points:
How to apply the attributive clause with that to describe a place.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warm-up and Lead-in
After greeting the students, invite them to observe the learnt sentences and get a first impression of the new language point.
Step 2 Presentation
1 Read the passage in Activity 1 and underline all the sentences with that.
Bondi Beach is the most beautiful beach that I have ever seen.
It is a huge, wide beach that is very popular for swimming and other water sports.
The hotel that we stayed in was right on the beach.
2 Pair-work: discuss the meaning of the sentences with that by answering the following questions:
a Who can paraphrase these sentences?
(I have never seen a more beautiful beach than Bondi Beach
The beach is a huge and wide one, and it is popular for swimming and other water sports
We stayed in a hotel, and the hotel was right on the beach. )
b What does that refer to in these sentences? (the most beautiful beach, a huge, wild beach and the hotel)
c What are the functions of the relative pronoun? (refer to the noun or pronoun before it)
Step 3 Practice
Ask students to complete the conversation in Activity 2 and share their answers.
Strp 4 Production.
Group work: Describe a city that they like most with their group members and write some sentences about it, with at least three attributive clauses with that.
Step 4 Summary and homework
Summary: Ask students what they have learned in today’s lesson.
Homework: Ask students to collect more information of their favorite cities and describe the cities with attributive clauses with that.
