译林版模块八 Module VIII Appreciating literature and art英语《Unit 1 The written world Grammar and usage(1) N

译林版模块八 Module VIII Appreciating literature and art英语《Unit 1 The written world Grammar and usage(1) Negative words and negative statements》优秀教学设计

Help the students to learn how to use these negative statements correctly.

Teaching important and difficult points:

Teach the students to use the negative statements correctly and properly.

Teaching methods:

Analyzing, summarizing and practicing

Teaching aids

A projector and a computer

Teaching procedures & ways

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework exercises

Step 2 Extension

I. There are some other patterns which can be used to express negation.

1 too + adjective +to-infinitive

In this pattern too, with the meaning ‘very’, is used before an adjective. After the adjective, an infinitive is used to mean ‘(somebody) cannot do’ or ‘something cannot be done’. Sometimes for somebody can be used before the infinitive. For example:

My father is too old to have such a long journey. (=My father is very old and cannot travel so long.)

She is too happy to say a word at the party. (=She is so happy that she cannot say anything at the party.)

The box is too heavy to carry. (=The box is so heavy that no one can carry it.)

The house is too expensive for us to buy. (=The house is so expensive that we cannot buy it.)

2 few + a countable noun; little +an uncountable noun

When we use few to modify a countable noun, we mean ‘not many’, and the noun should be in its plural form. When we use little to modify an uncountable noun, we mean ‘not much’. And few or little here has the negative meaning. For example:

Few students in our class have ever read Katherine Mansfield’s short stories. (=Not many/Only one or two students in our class have ever read Katherine Mansfield’s short stories.)

We have little rain all this summer. (=It almost does not rain during this summer.)

Because few or little has the negative meaning, we do not use the negative form in question tags. For example:

Few people liked his painting at that time, did they?

There is little ink in the bottle, is there?