内容正文:
新牛津译林版高中英语必修二Unit 3Festivals and Customs
Grammar and Usage
Lead-in
What did Lulu do yesterday evening?
Yesterday, I was going to see a new movie after supper. I was just about to leave home when a friend of mine called. So I told her that I was going to the nearby cinema and asked whether she would like to watch the movie with me. She said yes and that she would meet me at the gate at 7:30. We had a wonderful time and the film was great.
What tense are used?
ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all she had. Della counted it three times. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. If she was to buy a nice gift for her husband Jim, she would need more money. But how could she earn some? Della stood in front of the mirror in her apartment. She looked at her reflection, brushed her long, brown hair, and made up her mind: she was going to sell her hair. With the money she received for it, she would buy Jim a perfect gift.
Della had her hair cut off and sold it for twenty dollars. She spent the next two hours hunting for Jim’s gift. She found it at last: a simple but beautiful watch chain for his gold watch, which had been passed down to him from his grandfather. Della paid twenty-one dollars for the watch chain, and hurried home with the remaining eighty-seven cents. She looked at her reflection in the mirror carefully again. She felt nervous. Did she look like a little schoolboy without her beautiful long hair?
Would Jim still think she was pretty? She was about to find out.
Below is a story about how Della prepared a gift for her husband Jim during the Christmas season.
Exploring the rules
Find the sentences that use future in the past and fill in the box below.
And the next day would be Christmas.
If she was to buy a nice gift for her husband Jim, she would need more money.
… she was going to sell her hair.
… she would buy Jim a perfect gift.
Would Jim still think she was pretty?
She was about to find out.
__________