Teaching Aims: Learn the grammar:

* Object complement

* Either... or and neither... nor

* Subject-verb agreement

Teaching Points:

How to use the object complement / either... or / neither... nor / subject-verb agreement in different situations. The key point is to help students guess the exact usage from the context.

Teaching Methods:

1. Inductive method

2. Comparative method

3. Communicative approach

Teaching Aids:

1. A multimedia

2. A blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Object complement

1). Situation one

　------ Did you find anything special when you went to the classroom?

　------ No, I didn't.

　------ You found the door open, didn't you?

　------ Oh, yes. But I found nobody in the classroom.

2). Position

　V. + Object + object complement

　eg: The inspector shot the drug-dealer dead.

(= The drug-deal was shot dead by the inspector.)

3). Situation two

　------ What do you think about her performance?

　------ We consider that her performance is a big success.

　　( We consider her performance a big success. )

　------ What do people think about dogs?

　------ People believe that dogs are honest.

　　( People believe dogs to be honest. )

4). Usage

An object complement , which gives information about the object, can be a noun, a noun phrase, an adjective, a to-infinitive, a bare infinitive, or a prepositional phrase.

5). More examples with an object complement

(1) We made him chairman of our Students' Union.