unit1 living with technology
grammar and usage
teaching aims:
一、students will be able to review the usage of transitive and intransitive verbs;
二、students will be able to read brief explanations of the grammar items and draw conclusions;
三、students will be able to learn how to use them in different situations and by fulfilling some written tasks;
四、students will be able to know how to accumulate their knowledge of the language every day and try to use what has been learnt as often as possible.
teaching procedures:
step 1 lead in
what’s the biggest difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
•an american, philo farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the tv in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
•times sure have changed!
•transitive verbs are verbs that take an object. intransitive verbs do not take an object.
step 2 discovering more
read through p8 and try to find out more differences between them.
•1. an american, philo farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the tv in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
•2. it was not until the early 1950s that most tape recorders began using plastic tape as they do today.
•3. who can foresee what the future will bring?
•the object can be a noun, a pronoun, an infinitive, a verb-ing or an object clause.
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•on my birthday uncle gave me a mobile phone as a gift.
•the direct object is usually a noun that refers to something being given. the indirect object is a noun or a pronoun that refers to the recipient.
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•this will soon make dvds things of the past.
•they also make tv accessible to people who live far away from cities.
•the complement can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, a prepositional phrase or a non-finite verb which refers back to the object.
by the late 1970s, video recorders small and cheap enough for home use were introduced.
most transitive verbs can be used in the passive voice.
times sure have changed!
intransitive verbs do not take an object, and cannot be used in the passive voice.
the waters rose higher and higher, until more than 1,000 people had to leave their homes.
