Unit 5 Poems Using Language Review Useful Structures — Relative Clauses导学案-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第三册

2027年人教版选择必修3单元5 Review Useful Structures — Relative Clauses

学习目标

1. 复习关系代词和关系副词，能在句子中正确选用。

2. 通过观察例句，归纳 that 与 which 的用法区别，搞清限制性与非限制性定语从句的不同。

3. 能在语篇填空和单句改错中准确运用定语从句的相关规则。

学情分析

初中已学过定语从句的基本用法，who / which / that 引导的简单句子基本能识别。但关系副词 when / where / why 的选用、that 与 which 的辨析、非限制性定语从句中不能用 that、以及“介词+which / whom”结构，都是容易出错的地方。写作中也较少主动使用定语从句。本课通过观察例句、归纳规则和针对性练习，突破这些难点。

学习重难点

重点

关系代词与关系副词的选用；that 与 which 的区别；限制性与非限制性定语从句的区分。

难点

非限制性定语从句中 that 为什么不能用；“介词+which / whom”的语序和选用。

Learning Process

Part 1  Warm-up

Activity 1  Fill in the blanks with a proper relative word.

1. The poet ________ gave us a talk yesterday is from Britain.

2. This is the small town ________ Robert Frost once lived and wrote his early poems.

3. Do you know the reason ________ he wrote this sad love poem?

4. I really like the poem ________ lines are full of vivid natural images.

5. I still remember the day ________ I read my first English poem aloud.

6. The poet ________ you saw at the lecture won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Activity 2  Look at the words below. First discuss with your partner what each one refers to, then complete the table.

who  whom  whose  which  that  when  where  why

 

Part 2  Discover the Rules

Read the examples carefully and find the rules yourself.

Activity 1  Restrictive or non-restrictive?

Pair A

(a) The poem that the teacher recommended yesterday is well worth reading.

(b) The poem, which the teacher recommended yesterday, is well worth reading.

(1) What is different in the punctuation?

(2) In (b), can we change which into that? Why?

(3) Which sentence gives extra information that could be left out?

Pair B

(a) Wordsworth's poems that are about nature are widely read in schools.

(b) Wordsworth's poems, which are about nature, are widely read in schools.

(1) In (a), does the speaker mean all of Wordsworth's poems or only some? How about in (b)?

(2) Complete: A restrictive clause has ________ (no / some) commas and tells us which person or thing. A non-restrictive clause has ________ commas and adds extra information. In non-restrictive clauses, we use which / who / whose, but never ________.

Activity 2  When must we use "that" instead of "which"?

Study these sentences and find the pattern.

1. Is there anything that touches you deeply in this poem?

2. The first poem that we will read in this unit is by Li Bai.

3. This is the most moving poem that I have ever read.

4. The only poet that I really admire is Robert Frost.

5. The collection includes the poems and poets that the students love most.

6. Who is the poet that is giving the lecture?

7. All that remains of the old poet is a few yellowed manuscripts.

Complete the summary:

We use that when the antecedent is —

① an ____________________ (anything, everything, nothing, all…)

② modified by an ____________________ (the first, the last…)

③ modified by a ____________________ (the best, the most beautiful…)

④ modified by ____________________ (the only, the very…)

⑤ ____________________ (both people and things together)

⑥ after the question word ____________________

Activity 3  The tricky one — preposition + which / whom

Look at the two sentences. They mean the same thing, but the word order is different.

(a) This is the cottage which / that Robert Frost once lived in.

(b) This is the cottage in which Robert Frost once lived.

(1) Where is the preposition "in" in (a)? Where is it in (b)?

(2) In (b), can we use that after "in"? Why?

(3) Rewrite in the formal way:  The poet who / whom you spoke to is a Nobel Prize winner.

→ The poet to ________ you spoke is a Nobel Prize winner.

Complete: When a preposition moves to the front, we use ________ for things and ________ for people. We never use ________ after a preposition.

Part 3  Practise

Activity 1  Combine each pair into one sentence with a relative clause.

1. Li Bai is a Chinese poet. He wrote many famous nature poems in the Tang Dynasty.

2. He was born in Sichuan. Sichuan is home to many Tang poets.

3. The Tang Dynasty was a period. Chinese poetry reached its peak in this period.

4. His poems are still read today. They were written over a thousand years ago.

5. The reason is his deep love of nature. He wrote so many poems for this reason.

6. The poet collected many folk songs. The songs provided materials for his poems.

Activity 2  Find the mistake in each sentence and correct it.