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Book 3 Unit 3 Back to the past
Grammar and usage
Predicative clauses
Teaching objectives:
By the end of this section, students will be able to:
1. identify the meaning that predicative clauses express;
2. work out the grammatical rules of predicative clauses;
3. write a short paragraph based on a given situation by using predicative clauses.
Teaching key and difficult points:
1. To master the characteristics of predicative clauses;
2. To apply predicative clauses while writing a short paragraph
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead in.
1. What do you know about the great historian Sima Qian?
2. Read the article in Part A about the introduction to the great historian Sima Qian and answer the questions:
· What dynasty did Sima Qian belong to?
· What helped Sima Qian in his later career as a historian?
· What did his father do? And what was his father’s dream?
· What can we learn from his success?
Step 2 Exploring the rules
1. Read the given example sentence of