Unit 3 Fascinating Parks Learning About Language—Discovering Useful Structures 教学设计-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第一册

Teaching and Learning Design

选择性必修Book1 Unit3 Fascinating Parks

教学设计

Period 4

Teaching and learning contents: Learning about Language—Discovering useful structures

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

By the end of this period, the students will have been able to:

1) Learn about the form and usage of the v-ing form used as subject;

2) Practise using the v-ing form as subject in context and complete the grammar exercises.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Learning about the usage of the v-ing form as subject;

2) Practising using the v-ing form as subject in context.

Teaching and learning difficult points:

1) Learning about the usage of the v-ing form as subject;

2) Practising using the v-ing form as subject in context.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Leading in

Activity 1 Leading in

Lead in the teaching topic and introduce the learning objectives of this period.

Step 2 Discovering useful structures

Activity 2 Discovering the usage of v-ing  

1. Identify the function of the -ing form in the sentences below.

Getting here is quite difficult.  (subject)

Being in such a beautiful and wild place makes me feel blessed to be alive.  (subject)

2. Find more sentences with the –ing form from the reading passage and state their functions.

I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent.  (attribute)

Even though the sun is brightly shining, telling whether it is morning or night is impossible.  (subject)

Checking my watch, I see that it is 7:30 a.m. (adverbial)

Spreading out before me, branches of the Rapa River flow through the valley below.  (adverbial)

For hundreds of years, looking after reindeer was a way of life for the Sami.  (subject)

But every spring, a small number of Sami still follow their reindeer into the valleys of Sarek, living in tents or old cottages and enjoying their traditions.  (adverbials)

For example, this morning my breakfast is flat bread warmed over a fire, dried reindeer meat, and some sweet and sour berries that I found growing near my tent.  (complement)

Here I am, alone under this broad sky, breathing the fresh air, and enjoying this great adventure. (adverbials)

3. Think about and conclude the functions of the v-ing form.

The v-ing form can be used as subject, object, predicative, attribute, adverbial and object complement in sentence.

Step 3 Learning about the structures

Activity 3 Learning about the structures—the v-ing form used as subject

(Get the students to read the grammar explanations in RB or Appendix by themselves and complete the exercises in RB in advance.)

I. 动词-ing形式作主语的用法

1. 动词-ing形式作主语的基本用法。

动词-ing形式作主语时，多表示经常性、习惯性的动作，谓语动词通常用单数形式。意义不同的两个动词－ing形式并列作主语时，谓语动词需用复数形式。

e.g. Cooking food can be fun. 烹饪食物可能很有趣。

Making Chinese dishes is seen as especially troublesome. 制作中国菜被视为特别麻烦。

Listening to English tapes and watching English films are good ways to learn English.

听英文磁带和看英文电影是学英语的好方法。

2. 形式主语it代替动词－ing形式作主语。通常用于以下结构中：

It’s a waste of time/money doing sth. 做某事是浪费时间/金钱

It is no good/use / fun doing sth. 做某事没好处/没用/没意思

It is useless doing sth. 做某事无用

It is/feels funny doing sth. 做某事(感觉)很有趣

It is (hardly/scarcely) worth/worthwhile doing … 做……是（不）值得的

There is no sense in doing …   做……没有道理

e.g. It is no use crying over spilt milk. 覆水难收

He even thought it was a waste of time gardening. 他甚至认为做园艺工作是浪费时间。