Language Study
（一）明确目标
1. Revise the words.
2. Learn to use the –ing form: used as an adverbial.
（二）整体感知
The passage “live to ride “will tell you a lot of attractions in may theme parks. Let’s find them.
(三)教学过程
Step 1 Revision
Activity1: Suppose you are the manager of the World Park of Beijing, the Ocean Park of Hong Kong, or Disneyland in California. Please tell about your attractions to the visitors.
Activity2: Check the homework.
Students form groups to discuss their ideas for an “English-Speaking World Park”, and then get several students to report theirs.
Step 2 Word Study
Activity 1.
Write the following words on the blackboard:
statue entertainment minority collection attraction
advanced rocket amusement ancient explore
Ask the students to write about their meanings and then one tells the class.
Activity 2.
T: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words.
Finish the part of Page 68.
Checking:
1. statue 2. explore 3. collection 4. rocket 5.amusement
6. advanced 7. attractions 8.ancient 9. entertainment 10.minorities
Activity 3.
Fill in the blanks of the following (suggested answers):
When you come to a wonderful theme park, you are sure to enjoy yourself. You can find a collection of rides, exhibitions and other attractions. They are based on a common theme. On one hand, people can have fun / thrills and entertainment. On the other, theme parks are designed to teach people something. Those who come for thrills will also know more about a certain subject, such as life in the ocean, the discovery of the ancient world, and life in the future. What’s more, you may imagine much new things if you think you cannot get enough of scary rides and exciting adventures. Then there will be new designs, and new theme parks will be coming.
Step3 Grammar
Task Learn the use of –ing form as an adverbial.
Activity 1. Study the example:
He was ill and didn’t attend the meeting. →
Being ill, he didn’t attend the meeting.
Activity 2. Compare with another example:
After they enjoy the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland. →
Having enjoyed the rides at the Headland, visitors can take a cable car to the Lowland.
Summary: This having enjoyed …means the subject has finished an action before he does another. The form is used to emphasize two actions that happen in different times.
Suggested answers for part1:
1. Hearing a sound, the baby stopped crying.
2. Living far from school, he is often late.
3. Having been told that her daughter got sick, she hurried to the school to take her home.
4. Cutting off the electricity quickly, he prevented an accident.
5. Having lived in the country for many years, she knows how to grow vegetables.
6. Not having received any news from home for a long time, she is becoming more and more homesick.
7. Having found that her handbag was missing, she went to the police for help.
8. Having won the game, all of them sang and danced all night.