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Teaching Design
Grammar Inversion
1. Teaching objectives 教学目标
语言能力：学生理解倒装的常见类型和使用方法，学会用倒装句解决书面表达中遇到的问题。
文化意识：学生增强对祖国发展进步的自豪感，树立社会主义核心价值观。
思维品质：学生能提取并观察经典语料，以对比和归纳的思维总结倒装用法。
学习能力：学生增强拓宽语法学习渠道的能力。
2. Teaching important points 教学重点
学生准确理解倒装的条件和主要结构。
3. Teaching difficult points 教学难点
学生了解倒装的功能，恰当且正确运用该结构解决实际问题。
4. Teaching methods 教学方法
三维语法教学法，PPP 语法教学法、多模态教学法（Audio-visual multi-modal teaching method）
5. Teaching Aids 技术辅助与教具
PowerPoint, Multimedia Platform, Seewo apps on the smartphone, envelopes and handouts for teaching
6. Teaching Procedures 教学流程
7. Teaching Steps 具体步骤
Step One: Leading-in (Presentation)【设置情景，关注意义】 (2min)
Design a situation. Li Hua is keen on journalism and he writes a letter to ask Zhou Yang for advice on how to be
a journalist. Zhou Yang replied to him with the letter below.
Dear Li Hua,
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Though it seems admirable, it is still unusual for a new journalist to go out on a story immediately.
That’s why newcomers will work as a/an assistant to an experienced journalist.
Not until they are more experienced can they cover stories or submit articles. Then, not only are
they good at photography, but they also have a good nose for the scoop. Never do they fail to
acquire all the information needed. So careful and sharp are they that they can judge whether you are
telling the truth. Finally, keep in mind the dos and don’ts of your boss and colleagues. Only in this way
will you update your skills soon.
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Li Hua’s question: What are necessary skills to be a journalist?
Not only are they good at photography, but they also have a good nose for the scoop.
Step Two: Observation【观察思考，聚焦形式】(5min)
Leading-in: Presentation
Observation Extension
Practice: Polish + Making sentences
Production: Writing
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1. Ask learners to rewrite the sentences in a normal order and compare these two sentences.
They are not only good at photography, but they also have a good nose for the scoop.
2. Ask the students two relative questions and answer them after watching the video clip.
What is the difference of the two sentences? What kind of grammatical phenomenon is it?
3. Summary: Partial Inversion
Sentence pattern: not only+be/情态助动词+主语+实义动词
Step Three: Extension【拓展练习，尝试运用】(6min)
1. Work individually. Help Li Hua find out all the inverted sentences in the passage and try rewriting them in the
normal order. Try to work out its pattern.
2. Lead learners to conclude the function of inversion from the examples above.
Step Four: Practice--Polish 【学以致用，夯实巩固】(8min)
1. Continue the story of Li Hua and help students use sentence patterns in a real context.
To realize his dream, Li Hua decides to join the News Agency. Li Hua managed to take part in a writing test
designed by the news agency. He is required to polish the news report with appropriate sentence patterns for
emphasis.
2. All learners find out all sentences that need to be polished with inversion.
3. Individual work: Change them into inverted ones.
Oh No, not again!
People from all over of the world sat silently in the Shooting Hall. They were expecting a hero to
regain his honor.
Here came Emmons, the Athens' loser.
He fired. The target was right this time.
However, the people stood up with a scream.
People could hardly believe their eyes.
He only got 4.4 and fell to the fourth.
Emmons never expected it. He froze in no time.
This unlucky guy, Matthew Emmons just needed a 6.6 to be crowned in the men's 50-meter rifle
three positions at the Beijing Olympic Games. He was leading the moment ago. He didn’t lose until the
last shot.
But he made a 4.4.
Gone was the gold. So was the silver. Even the bronze…
He couldn't accept it. Nor could his wife. He was so depressed that he came up to his wife. She did
nothing but hug him deeply.
Fortunately, he missed the gold, but not love.
4. Lead learners to add two more inversion patterns from the sentences So was the silver. Nor could his wife.
Caution learners to focus on the sentences Here came Emmons, the Athens' loser. Gone was the gold. Help
them summarize the pattern of full inversion.
Step Five Make Inverted sentences about Amazing China 【核心素养，活动培养】(8min)
Group Discussion
Li Hua passed the writing test and enter the interview session. He was given several pictures and required to make
appropriate sentences for each picture with the hints in the brackets. Could you help him?
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(1) Pride of China (so…that…, amazing/spectacular) 大国重器，中国骄傲
Possible Answers: So amazing is the invention that we are all proud of it.
So spectacular is the micro radio telescope that we are all proud of the national invention.
(2) Learn for homeland (only when…can…) 努力学习，报效祖国
Possible Answer:
Only when we are devoted to study can we devote ourselves to the construction of our nation.
(3) Preserve national beauty (not until…) 美丽中国，共同家园
Possible Answer: Not until I watched the documentary did I realize the beauty across our homeland.
(4) Clean and tidy (完全倒装, stand) 创文创卫，干净整洁
Possible Answer: There stands a girl helping keep the traffic in order.
Step Six A letter of gratitude (Production) 【写作输出，同伴互评】(10min)
1. Li Hua has realized his dream of being a journalist in the news agency. He writes a letter of gratitude to Mr.
Zhou and tells him his experience. Try to translate Chinese with inversion.
Dear Mr. Zhou,
I’m Li Hua, the student who asked you for advice on journalism last time. I’m writing to express my
gratitude for your guidance.
Seldom did I know about journalism before asking you for help. （在向您求助之前我对新闻采访一
无所知）So nervous was I that I nearly gave up.（我多么紧张，几乎快要放弃了） Under your instructions,
I came to know how to be a good journalist. Only with professional skills can a journalist be qualified for
the position. （只有拥有专业技能，记者才能称其职）Never do I forget my first interview in the news
agency.（我永远忘不了在新闻社的第一场面试） Not only did the interviewer ask me many questions,
（面试官不仅问了我很多问题） but he offered me many latest pictures, asking me to make sentences
on them. Little had I known about inversion. （我本来对倒装几无所知） Fortunately, I made it with the
help of my friends in Class 16. Not until then did I realize the power of friendship.（直到那时我才认识到
友谊的力量）
If it hadn’t been for your help, I couldn’t have joined the news agency. Thank you again for your
timely help. Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
2. Peer Feedback
Ask learners to swap their handouts with their deskmates. Comment on the performance of their deskmates. The
teacher goes around to collect some representative students’ work, snap them and show them on the electronic
whiteboard with the aid of Seewo. Ask one of the students to help appraise their peer performance and correct
mistakes if necessary.
Step Six Summary (1min)
The teacher leads learners to review the main patterns of partial inversion learned this period.
Blackboard writing design 板书设计
Inversion
not only…/never/hardly/seldom/nor
only+状语 Partial Inversion:
so, such 短语(+…that…) be/情态助动词+主语+实义动词
not until…
Full inversion: 副词+谓语动词+主语，adj./分词+系动词+主语
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Assignment--Exploration and Experiment 【课后复习，深入探究】
1. Li Hua makes an inverted sentence to us at the end of the letter. Can you change it into a normal one?
Had it not been for your help, I couldn’t have joined the news agency.
=If it had not been for your help, I couldn’t have joined the news agency.
=Without your help, I couldn’t have joined the news agency.
2.单句改错。
(1) Not until he went through real hardship he realize the love we have for our families is important.
(2) Little does he realizes how important this meeting is.
(3) So loudly he speak that even people in the next room could hear him.
(4) Here is some picture books for you.
3.汉译英。
(1)这次经历不但让我们开拓了眼界，还让我们了解了各种地方风俗。
Not only did we widen our horizons, but also we knew various customs.
(2)老师指出我的问题，我才发现错误。
Not until my teacher pointed them out did I find my mistakes.
(3)听说这个好消息，我们开心地跳了起来。
Hardly/Scarcely had we heard the good news when we jumped with joy.
(4)在过去，人们很少意识到环保的重要性。
In the past, rarely/seldom did people realize the importance of environment protection.
(5)这是如此有意义的活动，我很想报名参加。
Such a meaningful activity is it that I feel a strong desire to sign up for it.
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