1、Unit 1 Women of achievementPeriod 5Grammar,Choose the correct verb form. Can yousummarize the rules?,I am/are seventeen.She is/are sixteen.There is/are a desk in the room. There is/are no chairs in it.John gets/get up at six oclock every morning.They has/have not come yet.What is/are the latest news
2、 about the Olympic Games?,I. Review,主语和谓语在人称上一致,1. Compare the following sentences. Note the subject and the verb.,Our group are all going to visit them in the forest.Our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon.,II. Collective nouns,Can you summarize the rule?,2. More examples,Col
3、lective nouns,Collective nouns,3. Rules.,4. In pairs brainstorm six questions using collective nouns. Then join with another pair of students and take turns to ask questions.,What does your family do in the summer holidays?Is there a crowd on an open day?What does your class ?,Collective nouns,1. Lo
4、ok at the following sentences. Note the subjects and verbs.,III. Pronouns,Pronouns,Pronouns,Pronouns,2. Practise,After the talk the audience _(is/are) to be divided into two groups. One group _ (is/are) for the very young with nobody older than eighteen. The other group _ (is/are) for their parents.
5、 Both groups _ (is/are) to discuss the generation gap (代沟). Neither _ (is/are) sure how well _ (he/she/they) understand each other. But neither _ (does/do) they think that it cannot be resolved. All the trouble _ (seems/seem) to come from misunderstandings. So what _ (seems/seem) to be most importan
6、t _ (is/are) to have an understanding family. It is the same with a team or a company. A football team _ (plays/play) very well if _ (it/they) _ (understands/understand) each other. A company _ (becomes/become) a big family for the same reason.,is,is,is,are,is,they,do,seems,seems,is,play,they,unders
7、tand,becomes,Pronouns,is,are,1. Fill in the verbs. Find the rule.,IV. Other examples,就近原则,Other examples,was,is,is,is,Dear Xiaoyu, I think everyone _(is/are) settled in London, althoughneither the weather nor the food _ (is/are) good. Either rain orsnow fell every day this week but everybody_ (has/h
8、ave) tried to ignore it. My friends and my mother _ (has/have) visitedalmost all the museums in London. None of them _(carry/carries) an umbrella but nobody_(has/have) let thataffect their activities. We are enjoying ourselves so much that Iwonder if anybody_(want/wants) to come home. This groupof t
9、ourists_(love/loves) the culture and _(is/are)happy inEngland and would like to visit London every summer! See you soon, Dong Xiaoshun,is,is,has,have,carry/carries,has,wants,love,are,Other examples,2. Practise.,V. Summary of subject-verb agreement rules,Read through the Grammar summary on pages88-89.,VI. Homework,Finish Exercise 2 on page 5 and Exercises 1and 3 on page 43.,
