The Fifth Period
Word Formation
Teaching Aims:
1.Review all the methods of word formation the students have learned and summarize them.
2.Do some exercises to enable the students to master what they’ve learnt.
Teaching Important Point:
How to enable the students to apply what they’ve learned about word formation to help them in reading comprehension.
Teaching Difficult Point:
How to apply what they’ve learned about word formation to guess the meaning of an unknown word.
Teaching Methods:
1.Explanation to make the students understand what they’ve learned clearly.
2.Practice to enable the students to master what they’ve learned.
3.Pair work or group work to make every student active in class.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings and Revision
Greet the whole class as usual.
(Teacher asks one of the students to read his homework and then asks some other students to check it.Then teacher discusses some of the answers with the students and corrects the mistakes the students made in their homework if there are any.At the same time teacher gives some explanation if necessary.)
Step Ⅱ Lead-in and Discussion
T:(Teacher shows the following on the screen.)Let’s do an exercise now.Look at the sentences on the screen.Please fill in the blank of each sentence with a suitable word according to the word given in the bracket.
Complete the following sentences:
1.These gold rings are ______ while those glass ones are ______(value).
2.We all like the report given by the famous scientist yesterday.It is ______(encourage).
3.Mary’s daughter is old enough to ______ and ______ herself.(dress)
4.We were on duty yesterday.But after school we couldn’t find Jack.Tom said that he was ______(self) and must go home.
5.______(self) is a virtue of the Chinese people.
6.He lost his keys.He is ______.I’m sure he will be ______ with everything from now on.(care)
7.At the beginning the Blacks in the US had no right to vote.It was ______(fair).
8.That plan was a waste of money.We ______(agree) with it.
(Teacher goes into the students and has a discussion with them.After a few minutes.)
T:Have you finished?(Ss:Yes.)Now give us your answers please.Volunteer!One student,one answer.
S1:In the first sentence,we should fill “valuable and valueless” in the blanks according to the meaning of the sentence.Am I right?
Ss:Yes,you are right.
S2:The second answer is “encouraging”,I think.
S3:I’ll try the third sentence.I think “dress” and “undress” should be filled in.
S4:The fourth.It is the word “selfishness” that is suitable for this sentence.Am I right?
S5:I can’t agree with you.Here an adjective is needed.“Selfish” is right in this sentence,I believe.
T:Which is right,S4or S5?
S6:I think S5 is right.A word ending with “-ness” is a noun,not an adjective.
T:Is he right?
Ss:Yes,he is right.
T:Please go on!
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Suggested answers:
5.Unselfishness
6.careless;careful
7.unfair
8.disagreed
Step Ⅲ Further Discussion
T:Do you like the exercise?(Ss:Yes.)Just now we reviewed a method of word formation.I’m glad you like it.There are four methods of word formation.The first is Clipping or Shortening.For example,telephone→phone;examination→exam;refrigerator→fridge;television→TV;the Chinese Communist Party→CCP etc.Who can give us some other examples?
S7:aeroplane→plane;bicycle→bike;mathematics→maths;very important person→VIP;the United States of America→the US.
S8:photograph→photo;laboratory→lab;October→Oct.;November→Nov.;United Nations→UN
T:So much for this.Now I’ll tell you that the second method of word formation is common.It is conversion.(Show the following on the screen.)Look at the sentences on the screen.Who can tell us the difference between the underli
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