Exercise 1. Each of the following phrases consists of a specifier and a head. Build a Description of the Course Goal Learning Objectives Learning Activities Time Allocation Learning Activities

119 Figure 2 A VP Consisting of a Specifier, a Head, and a Complement In accordance with the X’ schema, the verb eat is the head. It takes a NP a hamburger as a complement comprises a determiner a and a noun hamburger. Finally, the head takes the adverb never as the specifier to form a verb phrase as it is illustrated above. In other words, the noun hamburger merge with the determiner a to form a NP. The NP a hamburger merge with the verb eat to form a V’ and the V’ merge with the adverb never to form a VP.

E. Exercise 1. Each of the following phrases consists of a specifier and a head. Build a

tree diagram for each example that complies with the X’ schema. 1. the zoo 5. very competent 2. always try 6. quite cheap 3. perhaps pass 7. never surrender 4. this house 8. those books 2. The following phrases include a head, a complement and a specifier. Build a tree diagram for each example that complies with the X’ schema. 1. into the house 2. fixed the telephone 3. a film about pollution 4. always study this material 5. perhaps earn the money 6. full of mistakes 7. plan to privatise hospital 8. never study hard 120 LESSON PLAN MEETING TWO

A. Description of the Course

Name of the course : English Morpho-Syntax Topic : Inflection Phrase Sub Topic : Categories of modal and auxiliary Time Allocation : 100 minutes Number of Students : ± 40 students

B. Goal

At the end of the course students are able to understand the major concepts of English Syntax, the syntax of phrases, the syntax of clauses, special constructions, and some semantics interpretation of English constructions.

C. Learning Objectives

9. The students are able to name correctly the syntactic categories words which are categorised into modal and BE. 10. The students are able to identify the head, specifier and complementizer of sentences. 11. The students are able to demonstrate merge operations of simple sentences.

D. Learning Activities Time Allocation Learning Activities

Teacher Students Time Allocation minutes Pre-Activities 5 minutes ƒ Greet the students ƒ Introduce the inflection phrase material ƒ Respond to the lecturer ƒ Listen to the lecturer 3’ 2’ Main Activities 90 minutes ƒ Review the concepts and theories of words categories and merge operation ƒ Listen to the lecturer 5 minutes 121 ƒ Give some exercises about words categories and merge operation ƒ Elicit and discuss the students’ answer ƒ Explain the concepts and theories modal and BE categories ƒ Explain about the concepts and theories of inflection phrase ƒ Give some exercise about inflection phrase ƒ Discuss the students’ answer ƒ Do the exercises ƒ Follow the discussion ƒ Listen to the lecturer ƒ Listen to the lecturer ƒ Do the exercise ƒ Follow the discussion 5 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes Post-Activities 5 minutes ƒ Review some important points about the material ƒ Listen to the lecturer 5 minutes

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