Teaching aims:

　　Knowledge aims:

　　Students can understand the function of the relative pronoun that.

　　Students can grasp the usage of attributive clause with that.

　　Ability aims:

　　Students can describe a place with attributive clause.

　　Students can discover the rules of attributive clause with that under the teacher’s guidance.

　　Emotional aims:

　　Students will increase their curiosity towards English grammar.

　　Teaching key points and difficult points:

　　Key points:

　　The usage of attributive clause with that.

　　Difficult Points:

　　How to apply the attributive clause with that to describe a place.

　　Teaching procedures:

　　Step 1 Warm-up and Lead-in

　　After greeting the students, invite them to observe the learnt sentences and get a first impression of the new language point.

　　Step 2 Presentation

　　1 Read the passage in Activity 1 and underline all the sentences with that.

　　Bondi Beach is the most beautiful beach that I have ever seen.

　　It is a huge, wide beach that is very popular for swimming and other water sports.

　　The hotel that we stayed in was right on the beach.

　　2 Pair-work: discuss the meaning of the sentences with that by answering the following questions:

　　a Who can paraphrase these sentences?

　　(I have never seen a more beautiful beach than Bondi Beach

　　The beach is a huge and wide one, and it is popular for swimming and other water sports

　　We stayed in a hotel, and the hotel was right on the beach. )

　　b What does that refer to in these sentences? (the most beautiful beach, a huge, wild beach and the hotel)

　　c What are the functions of the relative pronoun? (refer to the noun or pronoun before it)

　　Step 3 Practice

　　Ask students to complete the conversation in Activity 2 and share their answers.

　　Step 4 Production.

　　Group work: Describe a city that they like most with their group members and write some sentences about it, with at least three attributive clauses with that.

　　Step 4 Summary and homework

　　Summary: Ask students what they have learned in today’s lesson.

　　Homework: Ask students to collect more information of their favorite cities and describe the cities with attributive clauses with that.