Unit2KingLearPartOne:TeachingDesignPeriod2:AsamplelessonplanforLearningaboutLanguage(TheAdverbial)AimsTohelpstudentslearnabouttheAdverbialTohelpstudentsdiscoverandlearntousesomeusefulwordsandexpressionsTohelpstudentsdiscoverandlearntousesomeusefulstructuresProceduresI.WarmingupbylearningaboutKingLearTragedybyWilliamShakespeare,firstperformedin1605–06.Lear,kingofBritain,favourshisgraspingdaughtersGonerilandReganwithsharesofhiskingdombutrefuseshisthird,honestdaughterCordeliaasharebecauseshewillnotfalselyflatterhim.RejectedbyGonerilandRegan,theoldandunbalancedLearisreunitedwithCordeliabutdiesofgriefwhensheismurdered.II.DiscoveringusefulwordsandexpressionsWhatisaphrasalverb?AnEnglishverbcomplexconsistingofaverbandoneormorefollowingparticlesandacting用心爱心专心116号编辑asacompletesyntacticandsemanticunit,aslookupinShelookedupthewordinthedictionaryorShelookedthewordupinthedictionary.Whatisanadjective?Thepartofspeechthatmodifiesanounorothersubstantivebylimiting,qualifying,orspecifyinganddistinguishedinEnglishmorphologicallybyoneofseveralsuffixes,suchas-able,-ous,-er,and-est,orsyntacticallybypositiondirectlyprecedinganounornominalphrase.Whatistheorderofadjectives?Number→Value/Opinion→Size→Age/Temperature→Shape→Color→Origin→MaterialNowyouaregoingtodothewordsandexpressionsexercises1,2,3and4onpage15.III.RevisingusefulstructuresWhatisanadverbial?Inlinguistics,anadverbialisasentencefunctionlikesubjectandobjectandsoon.Adverbialstypicallyexpresscontentthatisconsideredtobesecondaryornon-essentialtothesentenceitappearsin.Threetypesofadverbialaretypicallyrecognized:adjunct,disjunct,andconjunct(althoughseveralmoreareproposedinvarioustheories).Theterms"adverbial"and"adverb"areveryoftenmistakenforeachother,butdonotmeanthesamething.Anadverbisawordclasscategorywhereasanadverbialisasyntacticfunction.Themealwaseatenquickly.Themealwaseatenatnoon.Inthefirstsentence,"quickly"isanadverbwhichmodifiesthemeaningoftheverb"eaten".Inthesecondsentence,"atnoon"isanexampleofaprepositionphraseservingasatemporaladverbial.linguist.用心爱心专心116号编辑Whatisanon-finiteverb?Anon-finiteverbisnotlimitedbytheperson,tenseandnumberofthesubject.Itsoppositeisfiniteverb.Itisaverbalnounandcannotbeplacedasapredicate.ReadingforformsReadtheshorttextonpage16to:cut/thesentenceintothoughtgroups,blackenthepredicative,darkentheconnectivesandunderlinealltheusefulexpressions.Consideredtobethegreatestwriterofplays/intheEnglish-speakingworld,WilliamShakespeareismorefamoustoday/thanhewasinhisownlifetime.Nowadays,hisplaysareread/andperformedthroughouttheworld/and/nearlyeveryhighschoolstudentknowshisname.Eventhough/hewrotehisplays/almost500yearsago,hisplaysarestillrelevanttoday.Shakespearewroteaboutsuchthingsasgood/andevil,love/andhate,greed/andsacrifice.Hisplaysmakepeoplelaugh/andcry,sometimes/atthesametime.Byinvolvingus/inthelivesofbothimportantpeople/likekings/andgovernors/andlittlepeople/likeservants/andfools,Shakespeareforcesus/toexamineourbeliefs/abouttheworld.Bornintoamiddleclassfamily/inStratford-on-Avon,England,Shakespeareattendedalocalschool/wherehelearnedGreek/andLatingrammar,literature/andhistory.Althoughmarriedwithtwochildren,ShakespeareleftStratford-on-Avon/attheageofabout30/andwenttoLondonalone.Quicklymakinganameforhimself/asbothactor/anddr...
