虚拟语气语法教案
Teaching Plan 2
Teaching content: unreal conditional
Target students: Grade 11 students (aged 16-17)
Teaching objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to
1. grasp the usage of the unreal conditionals;
2. use unreal conditionals to translate sentences and write a passage;
3. use unreal conditionals in different situations;
Teaching methodology:
Task-based learning approach and student-centered teaching approach, cognitive approach, etc
Teaching aids:
Multi-media, blackboard, and overhead projector
Teaching procedures:
I. Warming-up (4 mins)
1. Make the Ss enjoy a famous English song and fullfill the blanks.
Beyonce Knowles —— If I Were A Boy
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I'd roll outta bed in the morning
And ______ on what I wanted then go
Drink beer with the guys
And _____ after girls
I’d _______ it with who I wanted
And I’d never get ________ for it.
Cause they’d ______ up for me.
If I were a boy
I think I could __________
How it feels to love a girl
I ______ I’d be a better man.
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it _______
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for _______
And everything you had got destroyed
……
2. Brainstorming: What’s your understanding of the song?
II. Grammar (25 mins)
1. Sentence appreciation: choose 2-3 sentences from the song, such as:
1) If I were a boy, I would put myself first and make the rules as I go,
bec ause I know that she’d be faithful, waiting for me to come home.
2) (This is opposite to the present situation)
3) If Lady Gaga were to come/ should come to our school, I would invite
her to have dinner in our school dining room.
(This is opposite to the future situation)
4) If it had rained much in south-east, people there would have had a
good harvest.
(This is opposite to the past situation)
Conclude: We use unreal conditional to express imagination, something that is unlikely to happen, unreal event or situation.
2. Analyse the basic forms of unreal conditional.
3. Practice
1) Multiple choice
(1). If you ______ to see Mary, what would you tell her?
A. are
B. will be going
C. must
D. were
(2). I would have said “Hello” to him if I ______ your brother.
A. could see
B. had seen
C. will see
D. will have seen
(3). If you had wanted to buy a record, what ________?
A. would you buy
B. had you bought
C. would you have bought
D. would you be buying
(4). If the tablets had dissolved, John ______.
A. would probably die
B. had probably died
C. probably would be died
D. would probably have died
(5). -----“I was so sorry to hear about Jack.”
-----“If he had made more friends here, he might ________.”
A. have stayed
B. have stay
C. stayed
D. stay
2) According to the three basic forms of unreal contional, create three
situations for Ss with different pictures and ask Ss to use unreal
conditional to describe each picture.
Examples:
(1) A: What would you want to do, if you had a Doraemon?
B: If I had a Doraemon, I would want to travel to the past.
(2) If Jack hadn’t won the ticket, he would not have got on the ship
Titanic.
III. Writing and presenting (16 mins)
1. Write a passage about 80 words with one of the following topics:
1) If I were clever enough, I __________________________
2) If I hadn’t done such a stupid thing, I _____________________
3) If Justin Bieber were to come to my home, I ___________________
2. Present their writings and peer review their work. (choose 2-3 groups to show their writings.)
3. Teacher’s reflection on their writing.
IV. Homework
Each student is required to revise unreal conditional and polish their writing.。