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The Participles as the Adverbial in Writing
分词作状语在写作中的运用
I. Teaching aims
II. Lead-in
Enjoy an English song Take me to your heart and pay attention to sentences using the participle as the adverbial.
III. Read the examples from the textbooks aloud.
1. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.
2. Arriving at a strange-looking house, he showed me into a large, bright clean room.
3. The Christian Church rejected his theory, saying it was against God’s idea.
4. Unfortunately, his father died, leaving the family even worse off.
5. It means that more heat energy tends to be trapped in the atmosphere causing the global temperature to go up.
6. Having studied volcanoes now for many years, I am still amazed at their beauty.
7. Not having seen a rainbow before, he was very excited.
8. The first person to arrive was Tony Garcia from Colombia, closely followed by Julia smith from Britain.
9. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few days.