内容正文:
Unit 1 Period 2 Grammar & Vocabulary
【学习目标】
Learning Objectives
1 To use non-defining attributive clauses correctly
2 To use the expressions about smile or laughter correctly
【学习过程】
Learning activities
目标一: To use non-defining attributive clauses correctly
Activity 1: Look at the sentences from the reading passage and answer the questions.
a I walk through the doors into the waiting area, where there's a familiar atmosphere of boredom and tension.
b... laughter produces chemicals to make people feel better, which means clown doctors can be helpful.
c I spent much of the time when I was there feeling frightened....
1 What do “where”, “which” and “when” refer to in each sentence?
2 Which sentences contain a clause with essential information and which with extra information? If you take away the clauses, do the sentences still make sense?
3 Which clauses are separated by a comma, the ones with essential information or the ones with extra information?
Answers:
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Now look for more sentences with non-defining attributive clauses in the reading passage, and summarise their uses in your own words.
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Activity 2: Read the sentences below, find out something in common between them in the underlined parts.
1.The fire lasted for a whole night, which caused great damage.
2.This note was left by Tom, who was here a moment ago.
3.Yesterday Jimmy left for Canada, where he had stayed two years.
4.We will put off the meeting until next week, when we won’t be so busy.
5.The moon, which is about 384,400 kilometers away from the earth, creates many beautiful stories.
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