Teaching aims: 1. Help the students learn when to use unreal conditionals. 2. Help the students learn how to use unreal conditionals correctly. 3. Help the students use what they have learnt to make some sentences of unreal conditionals.
Teaching aids:the multimedia and the blackboard
Teaching procedures: Step1:Lead-in 1.Ask the students to read a dog’s diary and answer the following two questions. 1)Why is the dog unhappy? 2)Are these things real or unreal to the dog?
2.Ask the students to summarize the definition of unreal conditionals. Unreal conditionals state a condition or situation that is unreal or is imaginary.虚拟语气用来陈述一个不真实或想象的情况,表示与客观事实相反。
Step2:Grammar Presentation 1.Ask the students to read three sentences in the dog’s diary and complete the following forms. If引导的虚拟条件句表示与事实相反,分三种情况,即与______的事实相反,与______的事实相反,与____的事实相反。
2. a)Ask the students to complete the forms of the two sentences in the diary and summarize the forms of the predicative verbs in the present tense when using unreal conditionals. If I _____(get)a bone now, I would be happy. If I were strong enough now, I _________(hit) Big Jack. If引导的虚拟条件句表示与现在的事实相反时,从句谓语可用_____________,主句谓语用would/could/should/might+动词原形。
b)Ask the students to read some sentences of unreal conditionals in Three days to see and try to remember them. If I were given three days to see,I should divide the period into three parts. On the first day,I should look long into my friends’ faces. On the second day,I should see the exciting sunrise. On the third day, I should experience happiness and sorrow of those who have eyes.
3. a)Ask the students to complete the forms of the two sentences in the diary and summarize the forms of the predicative verbs in the past tense when using unreal conditionals.
If I _________(eat) the bone yesterday, Jack could’t have stolen it. If I had given the bone to my honey,I _____________(get) a sweet kiss. If引导的虚拟条件句表示与过去的事实相反时,从句谓语用_________,主句谓语用____________________________。
b)Ask the students to fill in blanks according to some pictures. If there________(are)fewer people,I _______________(go) to the World Expo then. If Tom __________(drive) more carefully,he_________________(have)the car accident yesterday. If she ____________(be)busy doing her homework last night, she_____________ (go) to see the film with me.
4.a)Ask the students to complete the forms of three sentences in the diary and summarize the forms of the predicative verbs in the future tense when using unreal conditionals. If my master _____(give) me a new bone tomorrow, I would share it with my honey. If my master were to give me a new bone tomorrow, I would share it with my honey. If my master should give me a new bone tomorrow, I would share it with my honey. If引导的虚拟条件句表示与将来的事实相反时,从句谓语可用___________________________,主句谓语用___________________________。
b)Ask the students to fill in blanks according to some pictures. If it_______________(snow)tomorrow,I___________(make) a snowman with my mother. If I ________(meet)Yao Ming next week,I __________(have) a competition with him.
Step3:Grammar Practice 1. Ask the students to match some sentences. If you saw a person four metres high, we would have won the match. If Rob hadn’t injured himself yesterday, she would have passed the exam If she had studied harder, would you believe your eyes?
2. Ask the students to do some true or false sentences. 1) If I am a fish, I could swim freely in the sea. 2) If he will live in the 22nd century, he would live in a very different way. 3) I have no time now. If I have time, I would go fishing with you. 4)If you have told me about it earlier, I would have finished the whole task before the due date. 5) If it is not the doctor’s careful treatment, he couldn’t live till last year.
3.Ask the students to discuss some topics in groups and make some sentences of unreal conditionals. a)If I won the lottery(彩票), I--- b)If tomorrow were my mother’s birthday,I--- c)If there had been no computer Exam on Christmas Day,I--- d)If I were a bird,I--- e)If the story of 2012 were true,I---
Step4: Summary Summarize what has been learnt in the class.
Step5:Homework 1. Finish the tasks on page 40 and 41. 2. Write a passage with a title If I were…,.
Reading materials: Peter’s diary Big Jack stole my bone today. If I had eaten it yesterday, Jack could’t have stolen it. If I had given it to my girlfriend,I would have got a sweet kiss. How angry I am! If I were strong enough now, I would hit Big Jack. How hungry I am! If I got a bone now, I would be happy. If my master gave me a new bone tomorrow, I would share it with my girlfriend. But I know I am always a daydreamer!