Teaching aims:
How to do mistake correcting
Teaching emphasis:
The correct process of dealing with this exercise
Teaching process:
Ⅰ. Lead-in
1. Ask the students some questions about the mistakes in life.
⑴ Have you ever made any mistakes in your everyday life?
⑵ Do you think that there is someone that doesn’t make any mistakes in his life?
⑶ What will you do if you make some mistakes in your life?
⑷ Does it matter if you make a mistake in your everyday life?
2. Let the students discuss these questions and according to their answers draw the
conclusion: In our everyday lives, if we make some mistakes, we should correct
them, then we are still a good fellow. (Chairman Mao’s words)
Ⅱ. Presentation
1. The teacher’s brief introduction:
We know in our everyday lives, when we make some mistakes we can correct them
in time. And also when we are using languages, we may make some mistakes. So
today we are going to deal with this kind of exercise: Mistake Correcting (giving
this topic on the blackboard)
2. Give the next six sentences on the slide:
① What a nice weather it is!
② The Smiths did his best to help me.
③ “Stop talking,” he said his students.
④ It’s very kind for you to do so.
⑤ Although he studied hard, but he failed.
⑥ Please tell them come here at once.
3. Discuss these six sentences and correct the mistakes in them with the right
signs.
4. Summarize the three kinds of mistakes appearing in these sentences:
Unnecessary Word Missing Word Wrong Word
Ⅲ. Practice
1. Give the first passage on the slide and ask the students to discuss it.
Passage 1
Hello. I learn about you from my English teacher, 1. ________
Miss Fang. I’d like to your penfriend, and get to 2. ___
know more about your country.
First, let me tell you something more about myself. 3. ___
My name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing, where is the 4. ___
capital of China. I go to Hongqi School. We 5. ___
study quite a few subject, such as maths, Chinese, 6. ___
English and physics. I use to play ping-pong a lot 7. ___
in my spare time, but now I am interesting in football. 8. ___
Do you play any ball games? What your favourite 9. ___
sport? I look forward to hear from you soon 10. ___
Yours,
Li Hua
2. Check the answers one by one and explain the mistakes in it.
3. Let the students pay special attention to the signs that should be made.
Ⅳ. Introduction
Introduce the methods and techniques of finishing the exercise of mistake correcting on the slide. Let the students read it and discuss it by themselves.
短文改错的解题方法与技巧
1.首先要细读全文，弄懂全篇的意思。在读的过程可把初步确认的错误标出。
2.然后再从以下几个方面仔细推敲。
（1）动词→查时态，第三人称单数、非谓语动词、语态、主复句时态是否一致。
（2）代词→查前后是否一致。it的用法，以及指示代词、人称代词、不定代词、关系代词的用法是否有误。
（3）介词→查搭配及容易误用的介词。
（4）形容词副词→查词性有否混淆，形容词与副词的比较级、最高级的用法，修饰比较级的副词等。
（5）名词→查单复数，可数不可数，是否加冠词，the，a还是an，主谓一致问题。
（6）连词→查上下文之间的逻辑关系。有否误用。
3.重读全文，仔细推敲改正后的短文。读起来是否通顺，逻辑思维与短文脉络是否合理，词汇的用法、句子结构是否合理。
Ⅴ. Group-work
1. Give the second passage on the slide.
2. Divide the students into groups of four and ask them to have a competition: Which group can get the correct answers first?
Passage 2
Last year summer I went to London for a holiday. 1. ___________
I spent just a week there. While I am staying there I visited 2. ___________
many places of interests and had lots of friendly talks with 3. ___________
all kinds people. I found out a very interesting thing there. 4. ___________
One of my Chinese friends who has been lived in London 5. ________
told me that many English families don’t like to buy new 6. ___________
television sets. There are many shops where can lend you 7. ________
TV sets. The shops are often filled by a great many people. 8. ___________
Here they can borrow a set very easy, and it costs them only 9. ___________
a little. Then it can be taken home and use for long. 10. ___________
3. Let the group that first get the answers give their answers one by one and check it together.
Ⅵ. Consolidation
1. Give some rules that should be paid attention to when we are doing this exercise on the slide:
短文改错应注意的问题
㈠.四不改。即：
①标点符号不改。②大小不改。③词序错误不改（不是不改，而是按错词或少词来改）。④在纲外生词不改。文中出现带汉语注释的词，在句中不可能用错。
㈡.规范做题方法。
①要严格按照示范，即用规定的符号去改错。不要用文字去说明或用箭头去表示。
②换词，去词和加词三者不可混淆。
2. Give Passage 3 on the slide and ask one or two students to come to the blackboard to finish it quickly.
Passage 3
Today I visited the Smiths---my first time visit 1. __________
to a American family. They live in a small 2. _________
town. It was very kind for them to meet me 3. _________
at the railway station and drove me to their home. 4. _________
The Smiths did his best to make me feel 5._________
at home. They offered me coffee and other 6._________
drinks. We have a good time talking and laughing 7._________
together. They eager to know everything about 8. _________
China and asked me lots of question. In fact, 9._________
they are planning to visit China in next year. 10._________
3. Ask one student to give the general idea of the passage first.
4. Check the answers together.
Ⅶ. Summary
1. Summarize the points that the students should pay attention to when dealing with this exercise.
2. Homework
Finish the mistake correcting exercises in the workbook.