Teaching aims
Enable the students to master the usage of the Subjunctive mood.
Teaching important points
How to enable the students to know the structure and the usage of the Subjunctive mood.
Teaching difficult points
How to help the students to master the usage of the Subjunctive mood.
Step1 Pre-task activities
1. Group work
If I were a bird, I would fly in the sky.由此引入授课内容，主语是I，be 动词怎么用were？不是am或was？会不会是老师弄错了？调动学生的好奇心和学习兴趣。然后，以AIDS为主题学习虚拟语气。
Get Ss to collect more information about AIDS, such as pictures, news and so on before class.
2. Brainstorm
Let the Ss say as many words concerned with the topic AIDS as they can.
HIV: Bad People: Incurable:
Inject drugs: AIDS: Disease:
Symptoms: Virus: Giving blood:
3. Lead-in
Play a short film directed by Liu Dehua which calls for people to have a correct attitude towards people infected with HIV or have AIDS and help people know more about AIDS.
Step2 Task-cycle activities
Task1. Topic focus
Get Ss to make a report about what they know about AIDS through information collecting. Meanwhile they can show pictures by using the multimedia. Such as “ December 1st is the World AIDS Day; “The red ribbon is the national symbol of HIV and AIDS Awareness,” “ Each year, more than 5 million become infected with HIV,” etc.
Task2. Inquiry learning
Ask the Ss to use grammatical materials given and refer to their reference books to find out the rules of the subjunctive mood by group work.
Read the following sentences below. Give your explanation about the sentences and write out your understanding rule.
Sentences ( Example )
Your explanation
Rules
I wish I could fly like a bird.
It’s a pity I can’t fly.
Wish that … did
He wishes she were my friend
If I were you, I would give an AIDS patient a hug.
If I had HIV, I would know because I would feel sick.
Give Ss a few minutes to discuss, then each group send a representative to make a conclusion and then the whole class work together to sum up the uses as the followings, the teacher gives help when necessary.
if虚拟条件句
主句
从句
与现在事实相反
过去时；be动词用were
would / should 等+动词原形
与过去事实相反
would / should / 等 + have done
had done
与将来事实可能相反
过去时
should +动词原形
were to +动词原形
would / should 等+动词原形
wish从句虚拟语气
主句
从句
从句动作先于主句动词动作（be的过去式为 were）
现在时
过去时
从句动作与主句动作同时发生（had + 过去分词）
过去时
过去完成时
将来不大可能实现的愿望
将来时
would/could +动词原形
Task3 Discussion
Let Ss make wishes using the Subjunctive Mood of different tenses in groups of four.
Step3 Post-task activities
1. Interviewing
Ask the Ss to work in pairs, playing the role of a newspaper reporter and Li Hua, using the Subjunctive Mood. Finally invite some pairs to act out their interview in the front.
2. Writing
Ask the Ss to write an interview dialogue after the interview, trying to use the Subjunctive Mood Learned in this period.
3. Summary
1.We can also use the subjective mood to talk about something unreal or untrue.
2.The subjective mood can be used to show that something is important, necessary or suggested.
homework
1) 整理记录小组活动中你给予别人的和别人给你的建议及其它对话中用到的虚拟语气的句子。.
2) 从网上寻找20道有关虚拟语气的高考题制成语法检测卷作为下节课随堂小测交换使用。