Unit 3 Grammar
School :
WTeacher:
Size : middle—sized
Type of lesson: reading
Senior section
Time : 40minutes
Material : book
Aids : multimedia
StepⅠ Goal
Learn about infinitives
StepⅡ Focus
Find out about the features of infinitives
StepⅢ Difficulties
1)Find the rule of infinitives
2)Learn to express with infinitives.
StepⅣ Process
1. Lead-in:
Question : What，s your dream after graduating?
Answer :My dream is to……
2. Study the rule
Infinitive(1)
Studying the rule
Read the following conversation , paying special attention to the underlined parts. Julia: Hi , Kate. I heard that you became an English teacher after graduation. How，s your new job?
Kate: Well, it took me a couple of weeks to get used to my new role. Y ou know , from
a student to a teacher. I was asked to remember all the 60 students，names. Julia: Yes. It，s not an easy jo
b to be a teacher.
Kate: Especially a primary school teacher! Some of the kids wanted to talk with you. They wanted you to answer every question they asked. Some kids
pretended to be sleeping in class.
Julia: Sounds terrible! I hope not to meet kids like that.
Kate: Fortunately, the other teachers in my office gave me many suggestions. One teacher helped me solve the first problem. He made every kid speak two
minutes in class. Another one told me that I could have some kids stay after school to have a friendly conversation. Let me tell you the truth, now I am happy to have been staying with my workmates and my kids!
3 Find the rule
1)What are infinitives? Tick and fill in the blanks to find out about the features of
infinitives.
Features of Infinitives
Basic form ＋
Change of person □Yes□No
Example sentence from the conversation:
Change of singular or plural form □Yes□No
Example sentence from the conversation:
Change of voice □Yes□No
Example sentence from the conversation:
Change of tense □Yes□No
Example sentence from the conversation:
2) Find the difference between the blue and the purple parts in the conversation of
Studying the rule.
BARE INFINITIVE:
When verbs like , , ,and are followed by an infinitive, we don，t have “to” preceding them.
4 Apply the rule
1. Rewrite the following sentences after the example
Example: They are happy if they help you. →They are happy to help you.
1)He did not expect that he would find a job so soon.
2)The last person that arrived was our monitor.
3)He hopes that he will not fail the exam again.
4)I was sorry that I heard your father was dead.
5)Don，t forget you have promised that you will come back soon.
6)It is not an easy thing if we want to master a foreign language.
7)I made a plan that I would pay a visit to China one day.
8)It，s helpful if the students repeat the sentences out loud.
9)The boss made the workers work long hours every day .(passive voice)
10)We saw the thief enter the room.(passive voice)
2. Look at the following pictures of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz（《绿野仙踪》）. Complete the story with the proper forms of the verbs given on the next page.
visit play help get kill
send tell see Go
A lovely girl named Dorlthy and her dog Otto when a strong wind blew their house to a place far away from home. Dorothy met a kind witch here and told her that she wanted back home. The kind witch asked her
the Wizard of Ozin the castle, who had the magic power Dorothy back.
On the way to castle Dorothy met a scarecrow who wanted a brain, a Tinman who wanted a heart, and a lion who tried courage in itself. They became good friends. In fact, the Wizard of Oz didn，t have any magic power at all. But he decided the truth. He promised Dorothy and her friends if they could kill the bad witch.
When the bad witch knew about Dorothy, she was very angry. A pack of wolves and three monkeys Dorothy and her friends. After many fights,
Dorothy defeated the bad witch and went back home with a pair of magic shoes. Her aunt was very surprised her again.。