内容正文:
Revision of Noun Clauses
Learning objectives:
By the end of this class, you’ll be able to:
1. grasp the definition, kinds and use of Noun Clauses through revision.
2. know how to choose correct conjunctions(连接词)for Noun Clauses.
3. know how to use Noun Clauses in writing.
As long as you love me
—Backstreet Boys
Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine,
I’m leaving my life in your hands.
People say I’m crazy and that I am blind,
risking it all in a glance,
How you got me blind is still a mystery.
宾语从句
主语从句
Lead-in Do you find what kind of clause?
Observe and Discover
I can’t get you out of my head.
Don’t care what is written in your history,
as long as you’re here with me.
I don’t care who you are,
where you’re from,
what you did,
as long as you love me.
宾语从句
宾语从句
Lead-in
Read the passage below and analyze the noun clause.
During this new term, we have learned a lot of outstanding scientists. Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, was one of China’s most famous scientists. In his life, ①what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat. Farmers needed to boost yields in the fields they had. ②How this could be done was a challenging question at the time. ③Yuan was convinced that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. However,④whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate.
⑤Today, it is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains. When an outbreak of cholera hit Europe, ⑥John Snow was able to announce that the pump water carried cholera germs. ⑦The truth was that the water from the Broad Street pump had been infected by waste. Besides, Qian Xuesen and Stephen Hawking both had a great impact on the development of science. ⑧One cannot deny the fact that these grea