the fifth period
the infinitive
teaching aims:
summarize the usages of the infinitive.
teaching important points:
1. let the students master the verbs followed directly by the infinitive and the verbs followed by the object and the infinitive as the object complement without “to”.
2. let the students master the infinitive as adverbial
3. let the students master the infinitive as attribute.
teaching difficult points:
1. help the students master the following sentence patterns:
it is+adj./n. +for sb./of sb. to do sth.
sub. +v. +it+adj./n. +to do sth.
2. the perfect infinitive and the passive infinitive.
3. the negative form of the infinitive.
teaching methods.
review, explanation and inductive methods
teaching aids:
1. a slide projector 2. the blackboard
teaching procedures:
step i greetings
greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ revision
t: today we"ll review the infinitive. (bb: the infinitive) first let"s do an exercise. fill in the blanks with the best answer.
(show the exercise on the screen.)
choose the best answers.
1. we agreed here but so far she hasn"t turned up get.
a. having meet b. meeting
c. to meet d. to have met
2. the boy wanted to ride his bicycle in the street, but his mother told him
a. not to b. not to do
c. not do it d. do not to
3. when i handed the report to john, he said that george was the person
a. to send b. for sending it
c. to sent it to d. for sending it to
t: now look at the screen. i"ll ask three of you to tell the answers one by one. any volunteers?
s1: the first answer is c.
s2: the second answer is a.
s3: the third answer is c.
t: well done! sit down please. who can tell me the function of each infinitive in the three sentences?
